HOUSTON — Many teachers on social media are asking whether the STAAR test is too hard for kids after a popular article suggested many tests are between one to three grade levels too advanced. “I’m not ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The test Texas uses to measure student learning outcomes is giving students more advanced reading passages than they are ready for, a new study finds. These findings are especially ...

LUMBERTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The TEA is apologizing after the F-word was spotted on STAAR tests administered to some fifth-grade students. Lumberton ISD officials say a student at Lumberton Intermediate ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released the spring STAAR testing scores for third through eighth grade students on Tuesday, showing reading and language arts scores improved across ...

Opponents of the STAAR test have new evidence that the reading portion of the standardized exam given to all Texas schoolchildren remains flawed. Professors Susan Szabo and Becky Barton Sinclair, both ...

Under state law, Texas students in fifth and eighth grade must pass the STAAR reading and math tests to be promoted to the next grade. Students who did not pass these exams had the opportunity to ...

A long-simmering debate over the validity of Texas’ primary public education standardized test, known as STAAR, will reach the Capitol in Austin on Tuesday, when school superintendents and Education ...

It's that time of year, when students around the Lone Star State take the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, to test, well...their academic readiness. The standardized ...

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It's that time of year, when students around the Lone Star State take the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, to test, well...their academic readiness. The standardized ...