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...Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System is a battery of exams in language arts, social studies, math and science administered to fourth, eighth and tenth graders. Students are scored in each area as being advanced, proficient, needing improvement or failing...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Parents Protest, Students Boycott as MCAS Rolls On | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

Over the next two weeks, fourth graders will take seven separate exams and eighth and tenth graders will take 12 exams, each about an hour long...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Parents Protest, Students Boycott as MCAS Rolls On | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...eighth grade history frameworks include a section titled "society, diversity, commonality and the individual," which says students are expected to "learn of the complex interplay that has existed from the beginning of our country between American ideals and American practice in the pursuit of realizing the goals of the Declaration of Independence for all people...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Parents Protest, Students Boycott as MCAS Rolls On | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

Crockett had entered the game in the top of the eighth in place of freshman starter Kenon Ronz...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Splits with Brown, Finishes Third in Division | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...would think that returning to Hanoi would be an occasion for solemn reflection. But this was his eighth visit since the war, and as he inspected the monument, its facade cracked and stained by a vandal's splash of red paint, the Arizona Senator wasn't exactly overcome with emotion. "At least it's better than last time," he noted wryly, "when the grass had grown all around it and there was bird crap everywhere." He has passed his love for the well-timed wisecrack on to his son Jack, who at 14 was visiting Vietnam for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prison Cells, Tourists And One-Liners | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

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