State standardized testing is common in almost all states. In fact, Nebraska is the only ... Texas Education Agency (TEA), conducted an assessment of the validity and reliability of the STAAR ...

The Texas Education Agency is rolling out an “automated scoring engine” for open-ended questions ... the only way to score a zero was by not providing an answer at all. With the STAAR redesign ...

STAAR tests have been used to measure student achievement for four years. The performance standards were scheduled to be moved up two years ago, but Williams has been holding them down. The Texas ...

Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath ... Yet another concern is how cellphones can be tools to crib answers to tests. It is not difficult for one student to take a picture of an exam ...

He also believes that using the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), the state’s standardized test, as a graduation requirement is ineffective and harmful to students ...

A hairstylist, former belly dancer, and mother of two has led a rather unusual path to becoming the only Democrat elected in one of Texas's most ... was put to the test when the HBO series ...

A scan of newspaper headlines in other Texas cities shows that school boards across the ... students and their teachers would ...

Ted Cruz, of Texas, sought to fend off an underdog challenge Tuesday from Democratic Rep. Colin Allred in one of the year's most expensive races, which is testing shifts in America's biggest red ...

In Texas, as in every state ... It should also be a unique name that passes the business entity search test on the Secretary of State’s website; you cannot form an LLC with the same name ...

six years after only narrowly beating Beto O’Rourke. This time around, Cruz implored Republicans to take his race seriously. He tried recasting himself to Texas voters as a get-things-done ...