Last year, voters decided to throw out the MCAS test as a graduation requirement, leaving Massachusetts to rethink how students demonstrated readiness for a high school diploma.
Now, Gov. Maura Healey has unveiled a proposed framework. It brings back tests in the form of end-of-course exams, but adds a graduation project requirement, emphasizing pathways to demonstrated competency and real-world skills.
Supporters say it modernizes how we assess learning; critics worry it could be inconsistent or create new gaps, and some teachers who were glad to see the MCAS go aren’t happy about the new tests.…