STAAR test scores also largely determine how the state's education agency grades districts and campuses through its A-F ...

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) – Students sitting for their STAAR exams this week will be part of a new method of evaluating Texas schools: Their written answers on the state’s standardized tests will ...

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Students prepare all year for the STAAR Test, hoping to make a good grade and get passed to the next grade level, but one Wylie 7th grader with above the average ...

Standardized testing has always been a mixed bag. Oversight and metrics are necessary for any statewide institution, but teachers and parents are well aware of the stress students experience when ...

Nacogdoches ISD has joined a lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency that claims the state’s new, automated online grading system for the STAAR test is flawed. The district’s board of trustees ...

[Texas will use computers to grade written answers on this year’s STAAR tests] The ... but it’s in practice,” Phillips said. Not being able to test out of TELPAS can also impact students ...

A majority of students selected to participate in the power math course were chosen due to their performance on the standardized math STAAR assessment ... allow students to practice skills ...

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Thanks to a canine DNA test, three dog siblings separated at an overcrowded South Texas shelter were reunited by their humans in Michigan. Last year, Andrea Groom and her husband Bryon decided ...

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday that Ewers returned to practice after missing the sixth game of his career Saturday in the 51-3 win over Louisiana-Monroe due to an abdominal injury.

While it’s not quite the marquee slugfest it would have been last season, Texas heads to Ann Arbor to face Michigan in unquestionably the box office draw of Week 2. UT arrives with an offense ...