Massachusetts MCAS
MCAS English Scores Down Across The Board, Showing Effects of Coronavirus Shut-Downs
By Sam Drysdale State House News Service
MCAS
Massachusetts ballot questions
On MCAS Question, Mayors Reluctant To Fill In The Bubble
By Michael Jonas CommonWealth Beacon When it comes to the November ballot question asking whether the state should end the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System graduation requirement for high school students, voters will face a stark choice: A yes vote removes the statewide standard all students must meet to graduate, a
Advertisement
Massachusetts
Anti-Common Core initiative moves one step closer to ballot
Voters in Massachusetts might be the first in the nation to weigh in directly on Common Core educational standards. Last week, End Common Core Massachusetts, a committee of citizen activists, teachers, and parents, announced that it has gathered over 30,000 signatures in support of placing Common Core on the
Massachusetts
The Common Core journalism blackout
Earlier this month, a deliberately anonymous teacher set forth some of the problems she saw in the Common Core-based test she had to give her students. This teacher argued — and provided anecdotal evidence to show — that the Common Core-based test: (1) is developmentally inappropriate; and (2) does not actually assess
Massachusetts
Spreading the Massachusetts ‘education miracle’
Last week, the NewBostonPost reported that the Michigan state Senate is considering dropping the national Common Core standards and replacing them and other standards with the education standards used here in Massachusetts up until 2010. And with good reason.
Massachusetts
Michigan Senate panel turns to old Mass. MCAS standards
BOSTON – If efforts to repeal Common Core education standards succeed and the state returns to the old approach used with the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS, tests in place before 2010, it may find itself in good company. In Michigan, a state Senate committee has advanced a bill that
MCAS
Committee forms to oppose Common Core ballot question
BOSTON – Former Fitchburg State University president Robert Antonucci will lead a new committee to fight a ballot question that would allow Massachusetts voters to weigh in on whether to repeal Common Core educational standards. The Committee to Protect Educational Excellence in Massachusetts plans to organize a coalition of Common Core
Massachusetts
Time for Gov. Baker to take a stand on Common Core
As a sitting governor in a blue state, Charlie Baker must think he is immune from the upheaval in the Republican Party. Before his election, Governor Charlie Baker went on record opposing the Common Core national standards. But since he took office, Massachusetts parents have heard barely a word from
Advertisement
