The Massachusetts Education Reform Act (MERA) of 1993 was an act of
legislation
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passed in
that "greatly increased the state's role in
funding public education and in
guiding the local education process."
[Driscoll, L., et al, (2005), p. 2.] Over a 7-year period, MERA mandated several modern educational reforms, among them: the introduction of
charter schools
A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located. It is independent in the sense that it operates according to the basic principle of autono ...
and the use of the
MCAS standardized test. MERA is based on
Outcomes Based Education
Outcome-based education or outcomes-based education (OBE) is an educational theory that bases each part of an educational system around goals (outcomes). By the end of the educational experience, each student should have achieved the goal. There ...
.
Notes
References
*Driscoll, L., Berger, J.B., Hambleton, R.K., Keller, L.A., Maloy, R.W., Hart, D.,...Churchill, A. (2005). Education reform: Ten years after the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993. ''Nonpartisan Education Review'', ''1''(2). Retrieved from https://www.nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Resources/ed.connection.2003.pdf
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