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Peer reviewedGreenberg, Daniel – Paths of Learning: Options for Families & Communities, 1999
The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System is a damaging and dangerous "reform" with fundamental flaws: assumptions that all children undergo the same developmental process and that everyone requires the same knowledge to be successful; the fact that the guide and exams cover irrelevant material; and the idea that testing is…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Child Development, Educational Change, Educational Malpractice
Download full textStansfield, Charles W.; Kahl, Stuart R. – 1998
The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) is the new Massachusetts state assessment program that is being implemented in response to state education reform legislation. The paper describes the early efforts of the state Department of Education (MDOE), its prime contractor for development of the MCAS (Advanced Systems in Measurement…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
