Massachusetts Ballot Question 2 - MCAS A "yes" vote onQuestion 2, would wipe out the lone statewide graduation requirement in Massachusetts that students pass theMCAS testby 10th grade. Students would still take theMCAS, but each district would set its own standards for graduation. "This really...
Keri Rodrigues, who works with the Vote No on 2 campaign, is the founder ofMassachusetts Parents Unitedand the president of National Parents Union. Rodrigues has children in state public schools and said removing the standard of passing the MCAS would be “deeply unfair and deeply inequitable.”...
And yet his answer is no simpler than the basic message behind the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), a state-mandated exam that starting this school year all 10th graders in public schools must pass before they can graduate in 2003: Study hard, pass the test, earn a high...
we use a social regulation/cohesion matrix and an institutional analytic lens to engage in a comparative analysis across four contexts: Catalonia (Spain), England (UK), Massachusetts (MA, United States), and Rheinland-Pfalz (RP) (Germany). ...
In states and districts that require a high school exit exam in order to graduate, these are the subjects that this exit exam is based on. For example, Massachusetts doesn't let students graduate unless they can pass the MCAS exam in English, math, and one science or technology subject. ...