The Massachusetts Education Reform Act (MERA) of 1993 was an act of legislation passed in Massachusetts that "greatly increased the state's role in [a] funding public education and in [b] guiding the local education process."[1] Over a 7-year period, MERA mandated several modern educational reforms, among them: the introduction of charter schools and the use of the MCAS standardized test. MERA is based on Outcomes Based Education.
Notes
- ^ Driscoll, L., et al, (2005), p. 2.
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