Editorial: Without MCAS, can Mass. stay at the head of the class?

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Editorial: Without MCAS, can Mass. stay at the head of the class?

Maybe not our best, but the best of all the rest. But can that lofty position be sustained? Massachusetts’s students regained their top position in tests dubbed the “Nation’s Report Card,” but still trail their pre-pandemic scores. The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) tests, which have been administered to a sample of fourth