Schools
Question of the Day Topic: MCAS Performance
Westwood has scored well on MCAS, but improvements still needed.
School administrators said this week that the Westwood School District is , as well as the No Child Left Behind Act, but improvements district-wide are still needed.
Scores on the MCAS exams have reached well above 90 percent, and the goal of No Child Left Behind is to have universal proficiency by 2014.
And while Westwood made its Adequate Yearly Progress - which looks at whether the performance of a school’s students in total and individual student groups is improving - for 2011 officials said there are some areas that did not make AYP.
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As such, we're wodnering today: What do you think could help the Westwood School System and its students perform better to reach a higher level of performance? Do you think the town is already on the path to doing so? Why or why not?
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