Opinion: Mashpee teacher Jennifer Amendo urges Bay State voters to reject ballot Question 2 that would drop MCAS test as a ...

The MCAS, officially called the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, is the series of standardized tests taken at several grade levels to evaluate student learning in English ...

Question 2 would remove the graduation requirement to pass the MCAS. Their diploma would instead hinge on their district's ...

Massachusetts students in grades 3-8 and grade 10 take the MCAS. All students are tested in math and English language arts. A science test is taken by students in grades 5, 8 and one high school ...

Under current requirements, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education says "Students must earn a passing score on the grade 10 MCAS tests in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics ...

The initiative would not eliminate the test ... in math, English, language arts and science, technology and engineering. Currently, students must score a passing grade on the 10th grade MCAS ...

The results from the 2024 MCAS tests showed ... scored the lowest in math with 7% of students meeting or exceeding expectations. Southbridge was last in third-grade performance in both English ...

The MCAS scores for 2024 have been released, showing that approximately 30.1% of Franklin County and North Quabbin students ...

Approximately 3,000 more 10th-grade students failed the MCAS exam in 2024 than in the year prior — a notable uptick sure to come under scrutiny as the fate of the standardized test as a high ...

Just 78 percent of 10th graders last spring passed all MCAS exams in English, math, and science on their ... percent when they first took the 10th grade tests in spring 2023.

A sixth-grader in the Uxbridge Public Schools was taken to the hospital Tuesday after a laptop computer malfunctioned and burned the student’s hands during an MCAS ... Arts test in the library ...