Clark Art Participates in Williamstown's Holiday Walk Weekend

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute joins in the community-wide celebration of the holidays during Williamstown's 42nd Annual Holiday Walk Weekend, held the first weekend in December.

The Clark kicks off the festivities on Friday, Dec. 5, with a live concert by vocalist and tap dancer Jenny Herzog. On Dec. 6, the Clark hosts art-making activities and horse-drawn carriage rides on Spring Street, while its Café 7 makes a return entry participating in the Soup-er Bowl cook-off.

On Dec. 5, Jenny Herzog kicks off the season with a spirited concert blending the Great American Songbook, tap dance, and holiday classics. Herzog—a part-time Berkshire County resident—celebrates the long relationship between improvisational tap dance and jazz. He will be joined by interdisciplinary pianist Jacob Hiser. The performance takes place at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium.

Tickets $20 ($16 members, $14 college students, $10 children 17 and under). Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. For tickets and more information, visit clarkart.edu/events.

On Saturday, Dec.6 enjoy a full day of free holiday festivities all along Williamstown's Spring Street. From noon to 2 pm, the Clark's own Chef Chris Gouty and his team from Café 7 are vying to be selected as the best soup in the Soup-er Bowl cook-off held in the Lasell Gym at Williams College. Then, the Clark sponsors art-making activities at the TD Bank branch at 57 Spring Street from 2:30 to 4:30 pm and horse-drawn carriage rides on Spring Street from 2:30 to 5:00 pm.

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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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