Answer practice questions from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, to see how you shape up against elementary-level reading comprehension.

Public school students take the tests in various subjects beginning in the third grade. For teachers, strong STAAR results can lead to merit-based salary increases.

State lawmakers agreed on doing away with the test in favor of three new ones spread through the school year but reached an ...

Teachers at some HISD schools have been notified without an accompanying explanation that there will be no test prep for STAAR this year.

Answer practice questions from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, to see how you shape up against elementary-level reading comprehension.

High schoolers, meanwhile, saw declines on the English exams but gains in Algebra I. Math scores for elementary, middle and high school students remain below pre-pandemic levels.

Texas students’ passing rates on the reading STAAR test mostly held steady, and, while they saw growth in math, performance still lags behind pre-pandemic levels. Statewide STAAR results for ...

As North Texas students continue with STAAR testing, there is a major change to the way part of the test will be scored. A computer program and technology will score written answers. According to ...

Houston ISD—Texas' largest school district—begins its standardized STAAR testing this week. Here's what one of its fifth grade passages looked like last year.