After more than a decade of Texas students sitting for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness or STAAR tests, the standardized test is slated to be scrapped. In September, Gov. Greg ...

As we get into another winter holiday season, COVID is still part of our lives. And although it's hard to predict exactly what this year's cold, flu and coronavirus season will look like, experts want ...

Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

Texas lawmakers have sent legislation replacing STAAR, the state’s widely unpopular state standardized test, to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. Once Abbott signs House Bill 8, Texas will swap the State of ...

After a mysterious advertisement popped up on the wall of the Powell Street BART station, thousands of people have tapped their Clipper card to… their computer screen. The cheeky ad, a photo of which ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. A simple test that takes only seconds to complete can ...

Texas elementary and middle school students are passing STAAR exams at higher rates across many subjects in 2025 compared to 2024, according to new scores data released Tuesday by the Texas Education ...

This might be a misunderstanding rather than a bug, so any input is helpful. I have an apache behind a reverse-proxy, serving http. The issue noted is that the PHP variable $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] ...

I recently did a peer-reviewed deep dive into the test design documentation to figure out why the reported results weren’t showing improvement. I found the flat scores were at least in part by design.

ALBANY — A former state trooper who was fired after testing positive last year for amphetamines has filed a lawsuit against the State Police seeking to get her job back. The petition filed in state ...