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Currently, high school students must pass Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exams in English, math, and science to graduate.

The proposal would also change how Massachusetts handles the state's most troubled schools.

Schools have struggled to maintain campus diversity since bans on race-conscious admissions, say officials in briefs supporting Harvard.

They will join groups from other schools, activists, lawyers in support of campus diversity as justices hear admissions challenge.

Education has been a force for racial progress in the U.S., but we still have a long way to go.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case to decide whether race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina can continue.

A senior at B.M.C Durfee High School is Fall Rivers Youth of the Year.

Rayna Malhotra welcomes Soleei Guasp from Durfee High School in Fall River, Mass. to talk about her research at the Broad Institute, using CRISPR gene editing to develop treatments that overcome a cancer patient's resistance to immunotherapy, and also discuss the ethical questions that surround this biotechnology.

Rayna Malhotra welcomes Soleei Guasp from Durfee High School in Fall River, Mass. to talk about her research at the Broad Institute, using CRISPR gene editing to develop treatments that overcome a cancer patient's resistance to immunotherapy, and also discuss the ethical questions that surround this biotechnology.

Fall River educators, students and school committee members want the state to cancel MCAS standardized testing at least for the current school year, saying it will add unnecessary anxiety for students and teachers in a year already fraught with stressful situations amid the pandemic. “Students are just getting back to school. We’re just getting back in the groove. And to think that we will spend the next however many weeks prepping children to taking standardized tests after missing so muc...