Mass. students top all states in SAT testing
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Massachusetts high school students once again outscored their peers nationally on the 2004 SAT, but state officials remain concerned that African-American and
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The results of a new, comprehensive state testing system help explain the stateÂs low high school graduation rates.
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Massachusetts made sure its first home game against a defending national champion was one to remember. The Minutemen stunned seventh-ranked Connecticut 61-59 on Rashaun Freeman&#39;s layup with 4.3 seconds to play Thursday night.
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The state's highest court ruled Tuesday that Massachusetts is meeting its constitutional duty toward schools in lower-income communities, rejecting a lawsuit that challenged the state's education funding formula.
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The College Board, the organization that owns the SAT, and the company that administers the college admissions test announced yesterday that they had agreed to pay nearly $3 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over inaccurate test scores for thousands of students.
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AMHERST -- There is no out of bounds. When a deflected pass flew over the scorer's table at practice Tuesday, three Minutemen raced after it, wrestling for the ball in the Mullins Center seats. University of Massachusetts men's basketball coach Travis Ford would have it no other way. Ferocity: That's one thing he's looking for.
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ORONO, Maine - You could call it focused, efficient, dominant. All of those adjectives aptly describe the effort put forth by third-ranked Massachusetts in yesterday's 38-7 trouncing of Maine before 6,617 at Alfond Stadium.
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Consumer confidence in Massachusetts jumped to its highest level in more than two years as an improving outlook on the economy and job market sparked consumers' spirits.
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The state education agency is launching an effort to catch cheating on standardized tests, officials announced Monday.
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Following is the Globe Top 20 in EMass for girls' soccer. No. Team Record Last 1. Belmont 8-0-1 9 2. Oliver Ames 6-1-0 3 3. Lynnfield 7-0-0 11 4. Winchester 5-0-4 1 5. Old Rochester 8-1-0 -- 6. Marshfield NA 4 7. Norwell 8-0-0 -- 8. Wellesley 6-0-3 6 9. Duxbury 5-0-2 13 10. Andover 6-0-0 17 11. Rockland 8-0-1 ...
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AMHERST - Despite tipping off just 45 minutes before the Patriots game, the University of Massachusetts basketball contest against intrastate rival Boston University drew a season-high 4,482 fans to the Mullins Center last night.
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The most physically fit group of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders tend to score highest on an academic test known as the Illinois Standard Achievement Test, a group of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reports.
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One school in England sticks out a mile for the number of qualifications points achieved by its students.
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The hardware just keeps coming for the Lexington boys' track team. After locking up the Division 1 championship last week, the Minutemen won another crown last night, grabbing the MIAA Indoor Track All-State Championship, 46 1/2-34, over St. John's Prep in front of a raucous crowd at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury.
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One maverick state devised its own education strategy that bucks the trend toward high-stakes tests and federal control
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Large percentages of high school seniors are posting weak scores on national math and reading tests even though more of them are taking challenging courses and getting higher grades in school, two reports released Thursday show.
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Rashaun Freeman had 23 points and 10 rebounds as Massachusetts rallied in the second half last night to beat Central Connecticut, 79-66, at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn.