Changing student demographics, including a growing number of English learners, is causing Massachusetts educators to question the value of the traditional testing regime.
Top Democrats are leaving the door open to reassessing the role of Massachusetts’ long-controversial standardized testing system as some education advocates reinvigorate calls to abolish the tests or remove the requirement that high school seniors.
Massachusetts for the first time in at least eight years has a governor who may be more amenable to the idea of changes to the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS.
Lawmakers created the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) system in a 1993 education reform law that was aimed at improving accountability and.