Massachusetts public school students have not regained their pre-pandemic performance levels on state standardized tests, particularly on the English portion of the exam, based on 2024 test results ...

BOSTON — 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 ...

Massachusetts school students are still struggling to reverse pandemic learning loss, the latest MCAS test results show. State education officials say that students "are still behind where they were ...

MCAS results for 2024 showed more “concerning” results than the optimistically trending 2023 results and continued lagging well behind pre-pandemic scores, state education officials announced Tuesday.

New standardized test scores show students in Massachusetts are still recovering from learning losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic — but critics say those results are hiding a more complicated ...

BOSTON — State education officials and advocates are calling for a renewed focus on academic performance in the public school system after the latest MCAS test results showed most students are still ...

TAUNTON — Thirteen Taunton Public Schools students received perfect scores on the 2024 MCAS tests and were given trophies for their accomplishments, the district announced. "Kids need to feel like ...

Taunton Public Schools saw improved performance on the MCAS test this year, with the percentage of students grades 3-8 who met or exceeded expectations increasing from 27% to 30% on the English test ...

Massachusetts students continue to lag behind pre-pandemic performance in standardized testing, according to the latest MCAS results released on Monday. Overall, about 42% of the state's students met ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

BOSTON — State education officials and advocates are calling for a renewed focus on academic performance in the public school system after the latest MCAS test results showed most students are still ...