Ken
O’Brien
from
State House News Service
State education officials will decide next fall
whether to switch from the old standardized tests to a new model under
development around the country, and already policymakers have voiced the need
to shift public schools' testing approach.
"Higher ed cannot do what it needs to do unless
we change the current system," said Higher Education Commissioner Richard
Freeland at an education forum Wednesday morning. He said, "If we don't
get it right this time I suspect it is going to be a very long time before we
revisit it."
This spring a little more than half the school
districts around the state will administer the new Partnership for Assessment
of Readiness for College and Careers while the other half will stick with the
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.
