METHUEN — MCAS scores in the city’s schools improved in most categories last year, including large gains in passing the crucial 10th grade test required for graduation. The percentage of Methuen ...

SPRINGFIELD -- Rachel Romano, founder and executive director of VeritasPrep Charter School, believes the secret to mastering the MCAS test -- or any other scholarly goal, for that matter -- is a ...

SPRINGFIELD -- On a recent morning at Springfield Prep Charter School, kindergarten students were busy solving a "story problem" aimed at teaching them subtraction. The question: "If you have 10 ...

To teach to the test or not to teach to the test: That is the question that has bedeviled educators since the inception of the MCAS. The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, as the test is ...

The learning loss that came about as a result of the pandemic and its shift towards remote schooling for more than two years is still showing up in standardized test results, state education officials ...

Question 2 on the November ballot seeks to end a state mandate that Massachusetts public high school students pass the MCAS in order to graduate. The MCAS, officially called the Massachusetts ...

Carlton Innovation School, a grades K-5 charter school in Salem, used Wacky Wednesday to introduce every student in the school to breathing and body mindfulness exercises in an effort to help them ...

Middlesex Community College is offering free MCAS preparation classes to high-school students from the graduating classes of 2013-2015 who have not passed the Math or English portion of the MCAS exam.

Targeted classes to help students deemed at risk of failing the MCAS highlight changes to the Saugus High School program of studies for 2016-2017. The School Committee supported the additions to the ...

Jeanette Rodriguez admits that passing Massachusetts’ new high school graduation exams was the least of her worries last year. Hanging out with friends and having fun seemed more important than ...