BOSTON — Opponents of using the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test as a high school graduation requirement suggest there are better ways to measure student achievement, should voters ...

As your Nov. 13 Globe editorial noted (“Defending the MCAS from evidence-free attacks”), the current push to end the use of the statewide MCAS exam as a graduation requirement should raise concerns ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

The countless hours spent on drill-based test prep are wasted.” This year was the first time since 2019 that DESE administered full MCAS tests in grades 3-8 and in high school. The state did not ...

BOSTON (State House News Service) – By 2018, more than a decade after he was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, Ryan Boyd had passed nearly every single MCAS standardized exam he needed to get ...