Clark Art Presents Concert With Bill Nace and Matt Krefting

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In partnership with Belltower Records, North Adams, the Clark Art Institute hosts a concert by Bill Nace and Matt Krefting on Sunday, Nov. 20, at 4 pm in the Clark's Michael Conforti Pavilion. 
 
Nace and Krefting bring their experimental sounds to the Clark on the heels of their new LP release The Academy.
 
According to a press release:
 
Krefting is a DJ, music writer, and sound artist who has worked in the realms of drone, tape music, musique concrete, and avant-garde rock. Nace operates in similar territory, often utilizing guitar and other stringed instruments (most recently the Japanese taishogoto) to expansive and improvisatory effect. Krefting and Nace's collaborations see the two of them conversing in a language of eerie minimalism, haunted creaks, and buried tonalities. Both musicians have worked with other artists, including Kim Gordon, Joe McPhee, and Aaron Dilloway.
 
Tickets are $10 ($8 for members, $7 for students, and $5 for children 12 and under). For more information and to register, visit clarkart.edu/events

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Mount Greylock School Committee 'Struggles' with High-Stakes MCAS Question

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee last week had a microcosm of the debate with which voters around the commonwealth will grapple when they go to the polls over the next few weeks: whether to continue using the MCAS test as a requirement for a high school diploma.
 
Question 2 on the Nov. 5 ballot, if passed, would eliminate the current practice requiring high school students to pass the 10th grade Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test in order to graduate from school.
 
The issue arose at the October meeting of the regional school committee in the context of advising the body's delegate to this fall's Massachusetts Association of School Committee's convention on a proposal before that statewide body. One of the resolutions on the MASC agenda would go even further, calling on the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to institute a "moratorium" on all MCAS testing while a replacement to the current standardized test is developed.
 
The committee agreed to authorize its delegate, Julia Bowen, to submit an amendment to the MCAS resolution that would strike the moratorium language but continue to push for alternatives.
 
But the regional panel also waded into the more pressing issue: Question 2, which will be decided the day before the MASC conference in Hyannis on Nov. 6.
 
Carolyn Greene noted that the MASC's executive committee already voted a position on Question 2, encouraging its passage and the replacement of the "high-stakes MCAS" with a, "more reasonable and equitable requirement for a high school diploma."
 
But the local elected officials were more conflicted — both as a group and as individuals — on the issue.
 
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