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Mid-week backblog

June 14, 2006 By Charley on the MTA

'Round the horn we go ...Remember that pesky personal mandate? Greater Boston Interfaith Organization has been doing some listening sessions with not-so-wealthy folks who are likely to be hit with the "buy health insurance or else" part of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: education, gabrieli, governor, healey, health-care, iraq, mcas, patrick, random, reilly

MCAS: Schools aren’t just for education anymore…

June 6, 2006 By sabutai

I don't mean agenda in a negative fashion.  I think that, as Will alludes, schools now attempt to produce citizens -- but more than that -- they seek to produce healthy individuals.  People who are given opportunities and a level … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: education, mcas

Public Education and MCAS (or, My First Post)

June 5, 2006 By will

The proposition behind MCAS testing is a simple: you must know certain things in order to merit a high school degree. Hence, an up-or-down test on the things you absolutely must know, and if you don't pass, you haven't warranted the degree. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ethics, high-school-graduation, mcas, public-education, responsibility

Goldberg backs New Bedford in defying MCAS (with poll!)

May 11, 2006 By David

There's a bit of a firestorm brewing in New Bedford over the requirement that students pass the state MCAS exam as well as satisfying the school's other requirements before they can receive a high school diploma.  The New Bedford … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: education, goldberg, lg, massachusetts, mcas, vote-9.19.2006

2 Studies: Pub Schools Outperform, 3/4 Mass schools likely to fail “No Child” in 2014

March 31, 2006 By bruce-wilson

[ click here for PDF of full report ]: [ NCSPE study summary ] Findings reveal that demographic differences between students in public and private schools account for the relatively high raw scores of private schools on the NAEP. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: berliner, dobson, mcas, mohler, mta, schools

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