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Massachusetts

Adoption Status

Adoption Status: Adopted with Modifications
Adoption Date: 07/21/2010

Implementation Status

Implementation Type: Incremental
Implementation Timeline: Spring 2013, Grades 3-8; 2014-15, All Grades

Assessment

Assessment Consortia: PARCC

Massachusetts Details

Name of Standards: Massachusetts Curriculum Framework
Standards Numbering Example: Massachusetts follows Common Core numbering
Common Core Numbering Example: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1
State Documents: English/Language Arts
Mathematics
Last Reviewed: 10/05/2016
Summary

State senate considers abandoning Common Core April 2015. 

Confirmed, 2017-new state standards, called the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks are approved for Math and English Language Arts.  The new standards to be fully implemented in the 2018-19 school year.

Massachusetts News

Next generation’ MCAS exam to be developed by NH vendor (August 19, 2016)

Good News for Common Core in Massachusetts (July 7, 2016)

State tells schools to prepare for computer-based MCAS next year (July 4, 2016)

Court says question to end Common Core can’t be on ballot ( July 1, 2016)

Anti-Common Core initiative moves one step closer to ballot (June 28, 2016)

Testing College Readiness (May 20, 2016)

End Common Core hold informational meeting in Chicopee (May 18, 2016)

Signatures collected to put Common Core question on November ballot (May 14, 2016)

State Senate considers abandoning Common Core Standards, and some local educators agree (April 23, 2016)

Grass-roots bid to scrap Common Core faces tough fight (April 20, 2016)

New Bedford School Committee votes against PARCC opt-out resolution (April 14,2016)

Ballot fight looms over Common Core (March 22, 2016)

Massachusetts Bill to Teriminate CCSS Stalls in Committee, May be Decided by Voters in November (March 19, 2016)

Lawmakers to hear proposals on charter schools, Common Core (March 8, 2016)

Common Core ballot fight may head to court (January 27, 2016)

More Central Mass. schools to take PARCC test this spring (January 1, 2016)

State releases school scores trapped in time (December 11, 2015)

Massachusetts Aligns Further With The Common Core (December 4, 2015)

Massachusetts’s Rejection of Common Core Test Signals Shift in U.S. (November 21, 2015)

Ballot question to end Common Core in Massachusetts will move forward (September 5, 2015)

Massachusetts may be next to drop PARCC (July 25, 2015)

Growing calls to abandon new school test (July 24, 2015)

Why Mass. Educators Are Calling For A Halt To High-Stakes Testing (June 12, 2015)

Massachusetts begins process of deciding between PARCC and MCAS (May 1, 2015)

Tom Birmingham: Dumbing down Mass. education (April 13, 2015)

State to hold public hearings on PARCC (April 12, 2015)

Teachers raise concerns over PARCC testing (April 5, 2015)

Are Teachers Really Ready for the Common Core? (October 1, 2014)