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 ...

A review of this year’s Connecticut Mastery Test results shows improvement over previous years, but officials say the scores are nothing to celebrate. “I was optimistic about them because they do show ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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