Clark Art Hosts Mother's Day

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will host a day of activities on Sunday, May 11, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., centered on themes of mothers and maternal love.

From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., a selection of prints, drawings, and photographs depicting motherhood will be on view at the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper.

From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., a button-making activity will take place at the Clark Center. Participants can explore personal, family, and community values through button design.

At 2 p.m., an interactive engagement focused on representations of care within the permanent collection galleries will be led by an educator. This program is open to all ages.

Visitors can also explore the Clark's grounds throughout the day.

All special activities are free. The educator-led tour is free with gallery admission, and capacity is limited on a first-come, first-served basis.

Family programs are supported by Allen & Company.

For accessibility inquiries, call 413 458 0524.

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Mount Greylock School Committee Hears 'Remarkable' MCAS Data

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
04:54AM / Tuesday, October 13, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday heard that students across the district showed significant growth in their performance on the commonwealth's spring 2026 round of standardized testing.

Superintendent Joe Bergeron and committee member Curtis Elfenbein offered the panel its first look at the results of the most recent Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests.

"One thing I do want to say is that many people can look at scores and see them in a vacuum and think the score is the thing," Elfenbein said. "But in an academic setting, there's performance and then there's growth. And over the last decade or so of my teaching career, there was a massive shift toward an increase in focus on growth."

Elfenbein explained that the "student growth percentile" in MCAS reporting measures how an individual student performs in a given year relative to students who got the same score on a given test (mathematics or English language arts) in the prior year.

"So Timmy and Joanny each get 75 percent of the questions right on the fifth grade ELA MCAS," Elfenbein said. "Then they take the sixth grade ELA MCAS, and whoever improves on their score more gets a higher student growth percentile."

An SGP of 50 percent means that a student showed typical growth relative to his or her peers.

And in that measure of growth, Elfenbein said the district's results are "remarkable."

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