Town students produced mixed results on the latest Connecticut Mastery Test, and school officials were scratching their heads to explain why. The good news is that sixth- and eighth-grade writing and ...

If all goes as planned, the Connecticut Mastery Test, bubbled in with pencil on paper, will become a relic of the past in two years, replaced by a new, more customized online testing system. By the ...

A test given to more than 250,000 Connecticut students shows they're generally making academic progress, but that low-income children and students for whom English is a second language still lag ...

Connecticut's black and Hispanic students continue to narrow the academic achievement gap with double-digit percentage improvements in math and reading skills over the last few years, according to ...

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WATERBURY -- Waterbury and state education officials are putting new security measures in place for the Connecticut Mastery Tests in the wake of a cheating scandal during last year's tests. Students ...

PARCC administrators manual. The Louisiana Department of Education released new school-by. -school data on the test results on Thursday, Oct. 22. (Photo by Ty Wright, Associated Press.) (Ty Wright, ...