STATE HOUSE — State education officials have signed a five-year, $150.8 million contract with a New Hampshire-based organization for the development and administration of a new statewide assessment that students are set to begin taking next spring.
The contract with Measured Progress, the vendor for the existing MCAS exam, calls for the company and its subcontractors to build new tests in English, mathematics and science, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced Tuesday. Measured Progress, of Dover, N.H., was one of two vendors who answered a request for responses issued by the department.
This summer, discussions about America's role in the world have reached fever pitch. In fact, it has become near impossible to recognize a clear message within the noise of bold, and sometimes contradictory, statements about the proposed future of US foreign policy.
The world is consumed by chaos: No continent is without major strife. Civil wars, bloody persecutions, and the rise of Islamic terrorism have set fire to this world, and the strong-arm posturing by Russia, Iran, and North Korea tests old alliances and spells growing danger.
