FILE – In this Feb. 12, 2015, file photo, sixth grade students use a practice session to prepare for the the Common Core State Standards Test at Morgan Elementary School South in Stockport, Ohio.

Erika De La Rosa was excited when she heard about the sweeping changes to the STAAR exam. "When they initially announced it, as an English teacher, it sounded like a fantastic idea because writing ...

The free-form responses in the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness this year will be graded by new “automated scoring engines” designed to “read” what students write. Many people helped ...

Shellie Ross of Wesley Rankin Community Center (right, holding “Reach for the STAARS” sign) takes part in a pep rally to welcome students at Edison Middle Learning Center on STAAR testing day. Erika ...

Those of us who are anti-STAAR are not against testing. In fact, the formidable advocacy group, TAMSA, stands for Texas Advocating for Meaningful Assessment. Meaningful is key. According to educator ...

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as I read these words from the fifth or sixth page of instructions to seventh-graders taking the writing State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) ...

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released spring 2021 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) results on Monday. The results include exams in mathematics and reading for grades 3-8, ...

Texas students fared no better the second year they took a new, more difficult standardized test, with nearly half of them again failing the writing portion this spring. Students performed best on the ...