The Boston Globe

That test question again: A place, or not, for the MCAS?

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 ...
WBUR

The high-stakes MCAS is back — and may get harder. Critics ask if we need it at all

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 ...
WWLP-22News

Role Of MCAS exam continues to rile education world

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 ...
WBUR

MCAS: The debate over Question 2, an effort to drop the high school 'exit exam'

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. Load YouTube video The MCAS, officially called the ...