A week out from the Nov. 5 election in which voters will decide whether to toss the state’s MCAS graduation requirement, Massachusetts education officials continued to refrain from giving the public ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) scores for 2025 have been released, revealing a decline in student performance across the state. This is the first set of MCAS ...

As scores on statewide standardized tests rolled in Tuesday, revealing that students are still struggling from pandemic-related learning losses, education officials contemplated an overhaul of the ...

Similarities between the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes, confirmed by black box data, have focused attention on an anti-stalling system used in the new Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. Both the ...

Boeing's MCAS anti-stall system, which was implicated in the October crash of a 737 MAX 8 in Indonesia, was also activated shortly before a recent accident in Ethiopia, a source with knowledge of the ...

Though MCAS scores for the latest round of testing were "sobering" statewide, there were some local successes, including in Amherst. Credit: CREATIVE COMMONS Though a smaller percentage of ...