Rhode Island cloned its standardized testing system for public school students from neighboring Massachusetts — and each year ...

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 ...

ELA score in 2024 drops hit younger grades harder, with up to 5% drops in cumulative scores from 2023, and remained more flat for 8th and 10th graders. In math, third grade was the only set of ...

The results from the 2024 MCAS tests showed scores ... In Worcester, 24% of third-grade students who scored as meeting or exceeding expectations for English language arts, down one percentage ...

The average statewide percentages of 10th grade students who met or exceeded expectations was 49% in science, 48% in math, and 57% in English language arts ... pass the MCAS tests in mathematics ...

My daughter is a fourth-grade school ... familiar with the MCAS tests. She has two children in high school. One of those children is gifted in English language arts but struggles in math.

About half the 10th grade students who failed the MCAS ... grades 3 to 8, said that while there were signs of recovery in 2023, it “mostly stalled.” “The gaps that we see in test scores ...

Across Massachusetts, students in every grade level scored lower on English language arts in 2024 ... the MCAS exam is especially important because they must pass the test or the MCAS-Alt, an ...