Students Boycott Tests in Mass. To Protest Emphasis on Exams
In a protest against their state's embrace of high-stakes testing, hundreds of Massachusetts high school students and a handful of 4th and 8th graders refused last week to take part in tests that are a linchpin of the state's standards-based accountability system.
Students at roughly a dozen schools around the state joined in the boycott, which was launched on the first of 11 consecutive days that the state had set aside this month for administering the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exams.
The tests are administered each year to 4th, 8th, and 10th graders, as part of a sweeping package of education measures enacted by the state in 1993. Students will have to pass MCAS tests in English and mathematics in order to...
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