SPRINGFIELD — Over a month ago, Massachusetts voted yes on Question 2, ending the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test as a graduation requirement. My experience as part of the initial ...

Based on my 26 years of teaching experience, I am confident in saying that no one test should determine whether a student receives a high school diploma. Yet, for decades we have been doing just that ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave three classes of Massachusetts' high schoolers a respite from the statewide requirement they pass a 10th-grade standardized test before graduation. But now the test, known ...

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 ...

Massachusetts Teachers Association President Max Page speaks at a rally for the union-backed ballot question to remove the graduation requirement from statewide standardized testing, prior to a ...

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 ...