Despite what students, teachers, and schools want!
Whoever thought that you would be saying "Sig Heil" in left-wing Massachusetts?
"Professors urge Patrick to scrap
MCAS Dozens of education professors in the state's public college system are calling on Governor Deval Patrick to scrap the MCAS test. The teachers point to preliminary data showing that half the state's public schools have failed to make adequate progress toward meeting federal No Child Left Behind standards for at least two years in a row. That is up from 37 percent a year ago. James Nehring, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, said the increasing number of underperforming schools shows the system is collapsing. State Education Secretary Paul Reville called the MCAS "a key piece of our assessment and accountability system," and said the state would continue to use it as one of several tools to aid student learning. Patrick has said he would not tamper with the MCAS test (AP)."
Also see: The Sinking Schools of Massachusetts
