The Massachusetts Department of Early and Secondary Education has approved new high school graduation requirements to replace the MCAS requirement repealed by voters last year. The new requirements ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – UMass Amherst will not allow a student to carry the Tibetan flag during the official procession of Flag Bearers at UMass Commencement. Tibetan-American student, Kalsang Nangpa, ...

AMHERST — Change is a theme common enough at college commencements — a beginning and an end. But for the UMass Amherst class of 2025, change seemed more pressing and obvious when they received their ...

DEDHAM, Mass. (WPRI) — Newly proposed graduation requirements in Massachusetts recommend a “hybrid model for assessing mastery” in schools instead of cutting out standardized testing altogether. Gov.

An award-winning creative director and designer who worked on Broadway hits such as “Hamilton” and “Dear Evan Hansen” is set to be the keynote speaker at UMass Amherst’s 2025 commencement. Originally ...

High school students would take end-of-course tests designed, administered and scored by the state under new graduation requirements recommended by a state council and cheered by Gov. Maura Healey as ...

Max Page, the head of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, lifts up a sign for his ballot question eliminating the MCAS test as a graduation requirement. (Photo by Gintautas Dumcius) Massachusetts ...

BOSTON (AP) — The governor of Massachusetts plans to convene a statewide graduation requirement council after voters in November decided to ditch the state’s standardized tests as a high school ...

On Election Day, Massachusetts voters passed the Question 2 ballot initiative, which removed the MCAS standardized test as a graduation requirement for public school students. People enter the Boston ...