AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — Students sitting for their STAAR exams this week will be part of a new method of evaluating Texas schools: Their written answers on the state’s standardized tests will ...

The Texas Education Agency (TEA), conducted an assessment of the validity and reliability of the STAAR test in 2016. The study found that “a given test score could be ‘valid’ for one use but ...

president of the nonprofit Reading League of Texas, presented finalized scores from the most recent STAAR exam. Across the ...

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 ...

Houston ISD will present new test scores under Superintendent Mike Miles, the potential sale of 19 properties and Carnegie ...

HISD remained behind the national average and fell back in elementary reading scores but improved in most MAP score ...

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 ...

This election season, our editorial board invited candidates in 39 state and local races to interview with us. We sat down with dozens of them and offer you our recommendations below. For our ...

Tragically for Texas families, this gang consistently prioritizes the ... Parents, students and their teachers would be ...

If you’re a data person, you can look at the STAAR test and accountability scores, and we can knock it out of the park. The state average, that’s kind of below where we are in every single one of ...

Revising the social studies curriculum could be among the divisive issues the Texas State Board of Education tackles next year.