METHUEN — MCAS scores in the city’s schools improved in most categories last year, including large gains in passing the crucial 10th grade test required for graduation. The percentage of Methuen ...

The learning loss that came about as a result of the pandemic and its shift towards remote schooling for more than two years is still showing up in standardized test results, state education officials ...

To teach to the test or not to teach to the test: That is the question that has bedeviled educators since the inception of the MCAS. The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, as the test is ...

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. The MCAS, officially called the Massachusetts ...

Carlton Innovation School, a grades K-5 charter school in Salem, used Wacky Wednesday to introduce every student in the school to breathing and body mindfulness exercises in an effort to help them ...

Middlesex Community College is offering free MCAS preparation classes to high-school students from the graduating classes of 2013-2015 who have not passed the Math or English portion of the MCAS exam.