Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taunton Public Schools saw improved performance on the MCAS test this year, with the percentage of students grades 3-8 who met or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year's MCAS test scores show that Massachusetts students are still behind where they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, state ...

With scores overall on the decline for years, there's now been a double-digit percentage point drop in students meeting state expectations in these core subjects since the pandemic disrupted schooling ...

Massachusetts school students are still struggling to reverse pandemic learning loss, the latest MCAS test results show. State education officials say that students "are still behind where they were ...

For the first time in two decades, Massachusetts sophomores took the MCAS without needing it to graduate. The result: they did much worse than last year, and some state officials and others believe ...

On Nov. 5, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to keep the state’s two-decade-old state test graduation requirement. The ballot measure, Question 2, would repeal the need for students to pass the ...

SPRINGFIELD — Over a month ago, Massachusetts voted yes on Question 2, ending the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test as a graduation requirement. My experience as part of the initial ...

Taunton Public Schools saw improved performance on the MCAS test this year, with the percentage of students grades 3-8 who met or exceeded expectations increasing from 27% to 30% on the English test ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...