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 ...

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 ...

Going into a week where students across Massachusetts will sit for state-required standardized tests, a newly formed coalition of education organizations will step into the arena and throw its support ...

Suleika Soto is a proud mom of two teens in the Boston Public Schools system. Both her daughters make the honor roll, but differences in how they learn, Soto said, affect how they scores on tests. One ...

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 ...

When Ricardo Rosa isn't teaching educational leadership and policy studies at UMass Dartmouth, he's instructing parents on how to opt their children out of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment ...

TAUNTON — Thirteen Taunton Public Schools students received perfect scores on the 2024 MCAS tests and were given trophies for their accomplishments, the district announced. "Kids need to feel like ...

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 ...

MCAS scores for school districts statewide improved compared to last year, but students still struggle with the new version of the tests, with only around half of students meeting or exceeding ...