Each year, Texas students prep for months leading up to the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests, also ...

The Texas Education Agency is defending its decision to let computers grade students’ STAAR essay test questions in the face ...

Students in fifth grade take the STAAR science test, but aren’t tested in the ... more complicated, different question types; ‘23-24 is when … our essays, our short constructed responses ...

The last time we checked in with our local school district, the trustees were pondering the connection between Austin ISD’s ...

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For Austin ISD and Round Rock ISD, multiple factors have led to lower achievement in recent years, officials said.

Cheri Hendrick, director of assessment and accountability, informed the board this is the second year for what is commonly known as STAAR 2.0, a revised version of the tests. “There were limited ...

"Today I learned I would fail fifth-grade math," a Reditter wrote. The answer to the tricky question? The book has 48 pages, as explained by Redditor 'NorthernSparrow': "The key to solving the ...