Next Generation MCAS Update
Next Generation MCAS In recent weeks the official MCAS results have been released for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the North Reading Public Schools have received their scores for the Next Generation MCAS and shared this information with individual parents and students. As a District we have also presented our analysis to the school committee on November 13, 2017 and discussed this topic (among others) on the latest edition of Inside NRPS on local access. The link to this video is available on our website under News and Announcements. While we have become accustomed to receiving standardized test scores over the past eighteen years there are some differences this year that are important to note. For the first time we are seeing the results, in grades 3-8, for the next-generation MCAS. This is a different and more rigorous MCAS assessment than we have seen in the past and one that is fully-aligned to our Massachusetts curriculum standards. The De...