It's that time of year, when students around the Lone Star State take the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, to test, well...their academic readiness. The standardized ...

AUSTIN — Commissioner of Education Michael Williams announced earlier this week that results of 2015 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness in mathematics for grades three through eight will ...

TEXAS, USA — Nearly 4 in 10 Texas public schoolers failed the STAAR math exams in 2021, representing a significant decline in student performance during the pandemic. In districts where students ...

FRISCO – If there’s one thing Cade Elias likes more than video games, it is math. “Actually, yes and sushi is the best though,” he quipped. Cade, a seventh grader in Frisco ISD, has autism. In the ...

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Texas education officials say they are encouraged by standardized test results in grades 3-8 even though there is still evidence of pandemic-related learning loss. The Texas Education Agency released ...

HOUSTON — Fort Bend ISD student Omar Kabalan usually brings home very good grades. "Usually I get As," Omar said. "But like a scattered B." He said remote learning was a challenge during a portion of ...

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 ...

HOUSTON – Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Monday that the grade-promotion requirement related to the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test, for students in grades 5 and 8 ...

It's that time of year, when students around the Lone Star State take the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, to test, well...their academic readiness. The standardized ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – State testing data released Friday shows students’ math and science scores slipped as they struggle to catch up after the pandemic. Texas elementary students who took the State of ...