If all goes as planned, the Connecticut Mastery Test, bubbled in with pencil on paper, will become a relic of the past in two years, replaced by a new, more customized online testing system. By the ...

This chart shows the percentage of students in grades 4, 6 and 8 who scored at or above state goals in math (M), reading (R) and writing (W) on the 2002 Connecticut Mastery Test. The state places ...

A test given to more than 250,000 Connecticut students shows they're generally making academic progress, but that low-income children and students for whom English is a second language still lag ...

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Connecticut's black and Hispanic students continue to narrow the academic achievement gap with double-digit percentage improvements in math and reading skills over the last few years, according to ...

WATERBURY -- Waterbury and state education officials are putting new security measures in place for the Connecticut Mastery Tests in the wake of a cheating scandal during last year's tests. Students ...

Data released Monday from the 2004 Connecticut Mastery Tests for grades four, six and eight showed a slight decline in scores over the year before in every grade in reading, writing and math. Although ...

Initial LEAP testing data released this week showed widespread declines in students achieving mastery across subjects around the state, including in Lafayette Parish, according to The Advocate. On ...