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"Principals and teachers collaborate to create a culture based on the belief that all students can demonstrate high levels of achievement," writes one reader. Another asks, "Why does MCAS test what students have learned after just a year and a half of high school?"

"Schools — and taxpayers — [must] have an impartial and trustworthy method of evaluating students’ academic progress," writes one stakeholder. Another writes, "Massachusetts, accustomed to being the engine of educational innovation, is in the caboose."