With every teachers’ union pushing for the passage of Question 2 on the November ballot, the recent release of a study reviewing the pros and cons of that proposition sheds light on what dismantling ...

Approximately 3,000 more 10th-grade students failed the MCAS exam in 2024 than in the year prior — a notable uptick sure to come under scrutiny as the fate of the standardized test as a high school ...

Gov. Maura Healey unveiled a new framework Monday for statewide graduation requirements that center on end-of-course exams. Why it matters: Healey is attempting to balance business sector demands for ...

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 ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The Senate chair of the Education Committee signaled Monday that he will vote in favor of this November’s ballot question to eliminate the requirement that students pass the MCAS to ...

The 2023 MCAS results, released Tuesday, showed the lasting effects of pandemic school closures across the state — in large and small districts, rural and urban, wealthy and poor, almost without ...

Tuesday’s storm has forced the postponement of a portion of the MCAS test, the Department of Education said Monday.The MCAS ELA Composition test, originally scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed ...

BROCKTON — The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the 2023 MCAS results, showing only small gains — and quite a few declines — in scores within Brockton Public ...

Incoming first-year high school students will now have to score higher on the state’s standardized test scores in order to graduate high school. On Monday, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and ...

The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Exam is administered every year in grades 3 to 8 and grade 10, but testing was suspended in 2020 due to the pandemic. As she flipped to the open-response ...