Here’s a fascinating forum on MCAS and what it really means on the ground level, inside our schools.
Last fall, Adam Sweeting, who was running for School Committee in Ward 3, got together with Alex Pirie and the Welcome Project to organize this forum.
We’ve posted the audio file and transcribed some of the most interesting excerpts.
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Is high-stakes testing “the civil rights issue of our time” or a strategy for avoid the hard steps we need to take to improve education? See what you think.
Continued from MCAS and Somerville kids: Adam Sweeting’s forum
In this excerpt from Adam Sweeting’s MCAS forum, the debaters are Greg Nadeau and Jim Kaplan, and they agree–sort [...]

Somerville Teachers Association President Linda Vitiello (an elementary school teacher) tells a story about a child, a mural, and what paper-and-pencil tests don’t measure.
Continued from MCAS and Somerville kids, Part 2 and original post MCAS and Somerville kids: Adam Sweeting’s forum
Listen to the third part of the discussion from Adam Sweeting’s MCAS forum link
Linda Vitiello:
For [...]