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 ...

Eighth-graders across Bexar County and statewide failed Texas’ standardized reading test in much greater numbers than last year’s eighth-graders, but passing rates for fifth-graders generally ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fort Worth Independent School District students saw gains in reading and math across kindergarten through eighth grade this school ...

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 ...

The season of state testing has recently passed for elementary school students in Texas, and all eyes are set on the countdown to summer vacation, which begins May 23 in the Fort Worth Independent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Texas students' reading passing rates on STAAR have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels after COVID-19 triggered major losses, but their academic achievement in math still lags. State officials say the ...