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...About 30 percent of sophomores at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) did not take the MCAS last spring. Statewide, less than 5 percent of tenth-graders did not take the MCAS. The state Department of Education treats students who do not take the test as students who failed the test...
...their statistics, the state Department of Education gives a student who misses the test a score of 200, the lowest possible score. This practice distorts district-wide results in Cambridge, said Barbara Black, who analyzes test scores for the district...
...Among students who actually took the English test, she said, the failure rate was 53 percent--not 67 percent, as the state reported. On the math test, the rate was 64 percent--not 75 percent...
...only school district results are skewed. State education officials have urged districts to use individual students' MCAS scores to identify their strengths and weaknesses, Groves said, which becomes impossible when there are no results to analyze...
...also announced yesterday that fact-finding teams would begin examining four schools in the state that the state Department of Education had identified as "underperforming...