A teacher-friendly guide to AYP in Massachusetts
State standardized test scores improved for students in all grades last year -- the first time in three years that scores increased across the board, the state Department of Education announced this morning.
State education officials, worried that many elementary teachers struggle with math, are making it harder to get a teaching license and urging colleges to offer more demanding courses for aspiring teachers.
Results from the MCAS exams conducted in the Spring of 2006 have been released by the state Department of Education. Click on the name of a district below for a summary of its overall performance, and a school-by-school breakdown.
This school district did a masterful job of assembling high school math tutorials and interactive exercises to review for New York's state exit exam. While the site is tailored to the New York exam, the resources benefit any and all high school math classes around the country.
This is the official (No Child Left Behind) Massachusetts state exit exam in mathematics given to all MA 10th graders in the spring of 2006. Students by law must pass this exam in order to receive a high school diploma.
A growing number of the state's public schools are failing to meet federal standards, with the number of schools receiving the worst designation nearly doubling, according to a preliminary report released today by the Department of Education.
Massachusetts charter school students are performing as well as, or better than, their counterparts in regular public schools, in contrast to a recent national study, according to a state report released yesterday.