Voters shall have the opportunity to make Massachusetts’ educational system more just for all students. By voting YES on Question 2, we can eliminate the narrowed curricula created by the ...

FALL RIVER — Some Fall River teachers and educators are calling for eliminating the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System as a high school graduation requirement, arguing alternative ...

FALL RIVER — The city has 108 new high school graduates. Superintendent Tracy Curley told the School Committee during its April 29 meeting that those 108 people were students between 2003 and 2024, ...

With every teachers’ union pushing for the passage of Question 2 on the November ballot, the recent release of a study reviewing the pros and cons of that proposition sheds light on what dismantling ...

BEGINS TUESDAY NIGHT AT 9:00. NOW TO ONE OF THE BIG QUESTIONS ON THE STATE BALLOT THIS NOVEMBER, A QUESTION TO ASKS, SHOULD PASSING THE 10TH GRADE MCAS TEST CONTINUE TO BE A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE ...

On Nov. 5, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to keep the state’s two-decade-old state test graduation requirement. The ballot measure, Question 2, would repeal the need for students to pass the ...

A small group of international students at Springfield High School of Science and Technology — and their test results — illustrate a much larger discussion playing out across the state, one that will ...

Taunton Public Schools saw improved performance on the MCAS test this year, with the percentage of students grades 3-8 who met or exceeded expectations increasing from 27% to 30% on the English test ...

I am a longtime educator and I plan to vote “Yes” on Question 2, which would replace the MCAS test as a high school graduation requirement. Instead, students would need to demonstrate that they have ...

For the first time in two decades, Massachusetts sophomores took the MCAS without needing it to graduate. The result: they did much worse than last year, and some state officials and others believe ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Whenever I had to take a standardized test, I’d replay in my head a skit from “Beyond The Fringe,” a comedy revue written and performed by four British actors, including the late Dudley ...