US to implement new citizenship test from October 20. Here’s what changes

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services announces changes to its naturalization process. A new civics test will take effect from October 20, 2025. Applicants filing before this date will take the ...

MCAS scores are in — here’s where the students stand

Massachusetts MCAS scores show modest gains in English, flat math performance and continued post-pandemic challenges, with 63 districts returning to pre-pandemic levels.
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New AI Speech Framework Offers Reliable Suicide Risk Detection Across Multiple Tasks

Suicide continues to be one of the leading causes of death among adolescents, and the challenge of identifying those at risk in time remains a pressing public health issue. Traditional detection ...

Massachusetts sophomores fare worse on MCAS when test does not count for graduation

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 ...

Massachusetts students still lag behind prepandemic levels on MCAS scores

Grade 10 results suggested some students took the test less seriously after voters eliminated the MCAS as a graduation requirement last year.
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Lowell Public Schools score with MCAS testing

LOWELL — The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the 2025 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System results during a presentation Monday morning. Overall, Lowell Public ...

‘Results are sobering’: Massachusetts reveals scores from 2025 MCAS tests

A smaller percentage of Massachusetts schools made significant progress towards, met, or exceeded their own goals in 2025, state officials said Monday as they released “sobering” results from the ...
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12 and 13 year olds face new compulsory school reading test under new government plans

Year 8 pupils in England will soon face a new national reading test, the first statutory exam for this age group in almost two decades.
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Egerton Primary School celebrates best ever SATs results

A KNUTSFORD school is celebrating after achieving ‘exceptional’ results in national English and maths standard assessment tests.
The Lowell Sun

Mass. MCAS scores still not back to pre-pandemic levels

A smaller percentage of Massachusetts schools made significant progress towards, met or exceeded their own goals in 2025, state officials said Monday as they released ...

State to release 2025 School and District MCAS results

The results from the 2025 MCAS tests are expected to be released on Monday at Ottoson Middle School in Arlington.
Sydney Morning Herald

Calls for ‘outdated’ exams to be replaced with project-based tasks, long-term assessment

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Victoria’s “outdated” 1980s-era approach to final high school exams should be replaced with a system that includes project-based tasks, ...