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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released the spring STAAR testing scores for third through eighth grade students on Tuesday, showing reading and language arts scores improved across ...

Fourth-graders Arielle Silver (left), Mariam Jalloh, and Caden Richardson are all dual-language students at Hackberry Elementary School in Frisco. Manuel Castillo is one of their teachers. They all ...

Under state law, Texas students in fifth and eighth grade must pass the STAAR reading and math tests to be promoted to the next grade. Students who did not pass these exams had the opportunity to ...

The senator’s office reached out to us about submitting an op-ed on the STAAR test. We’ve reached out to Texas Education Agency commissioner Mike Morath and other defenders of the test and hope to ...

The difficulty of the reading passages on the state’s STAAR test don’t line up with the grade levels they’re testing, according to a new study from a couple of professors at Texas A&M Commerce. For ...

Texas students this spring will take a newly redesigned version of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test, a change educators and school district officials hope will better align ...