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 ...

Educator, writer, and researcher Dr. Irma Guadarrama pens a guest column about a lawsuit brought by various Texas school ...

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board stated that as early as the end of a student's junior year of high school, they ...

The new STAAR test has been the subject of litigation that has prevented the release of school district A-F accountability ...

This November, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to keep or change a system that shapes the educational path for thousands of students, as they face a pivotal choice about the future of ...

The data is sobering. Math scores are dropping, reading scores are stagnant, and absenteeism rates are rising. These ...

The test that was the worst this year was ... and that system is the state of Texas,” Segura said. “[STAAR] is something to be considered but certainly not something that should drive our ...

STAAR tests have been used to measure student achievement for four years. The performance standards were scheduled to be moved up two years ago, but Williams has been holding them down. The Texas ...

Texas Education Agency officials plan to appeal the decision, agency spokesman Jake Kobersky said. The grades are based largely on how well students perform on the STAAR tests. This is the second ...

The Texas Success Initiative (TSI ... The lawsuits challenge the TEA’s use of the STAAR test and the AI grading system used for written responses. The lawsuits also claim that the TEA did ...