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They’re coming for MCAS again, and maybe it’s about time Updated May 8, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend Teachers union: Crucial time to call for less testing, more learning Re “Teachers union garbs its latest attack on MCAS in social-justice rhetoric. Don’t fall for it” (Editorial, May 2): It’s time to listen to Black and brown students, families, and educators who are challenging us to understand the racist roots of standardized testing. The high-stakes MCAS tests backed by The Boston Globe have served to rank and punish under-resourced schools rather than to...

Hardest hit by the recession, unemployment at 15.6%. a great depression level. why was the african-american community hit so hard? >> the african-american community unlike the white community has not profited as much from the education revolution that's taken place over the last 20 or 30 years. they have fewer college graduates. among the males in the african-american community, the education performance has not done well as all. women have done better through the process of civil rights and so forth. a lot of it is the problems of poor inner city neighborhoods and the kinds of trouble and dif...