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 ...

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 ...

(NEXSTAR) — Are you smarter than a Texas fifth-grader taking the STAAR Test? As another new school year begins, it’s never a bad idea to know what the kids are learning — or how hard the lessons are.

Elementary and middle school students taking the STAAR exam this year improved their mathematics scores in Bexar County’s biggest school districts, a trend seen across the state, but produced mixed ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Math questions on the STAAR test continue to be under scrutiny, but no action was taken Wednesday by the State Board of Education. “This is their lives. This is so important to them.

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This summer, my Bush Institute colleague Anne Wicks and I interviewed numerous testing experts, parent activists and education leaders about what exactly goes into the making of a quality standardized ...

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 ...

(NEXSTAR) — Are you smarter than a Texas fifth-grader taking the STAAR Test? As another new school year begins, it’s never a bad idea to know what the kids are learning — or how hard the lessons are.