House Bill 4, by State Rep. Brad Buckley, R-Salado, would also expand the Texas Education Agency’s powers to sanction school ...

A math teacher at Peoria's Rolling Acres Middle School was named Tuesday among 13 finalists for the top award for educators ...

A Richardson ISD student at Spring Creek Elementary in Dallas prepares for the STAAR test with a word exercise. The STAAR test is often the target of criticism by politicians, teachers’ unions ...

Changes to the state standardized tests known as STAAR have made it difficult to compare how Texas ... Nationwide, average fourth-grade math scores improved in 2024 — the one bright spot in the ...

LAUSD did better in fourth-grade math, a bright spot. Students are reading less for pleasure. Instead of hoped-for improvements from pandemic-era campus closures, math and English test scores of ...

The Texas STAAR Test has been a critical ... of comprehension in subjects like math, science, literature, and history. What if I were to pull some sample questions from the Texas Education Agency?

A mix of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders ... 41 percent of the lower-income students in eighth grade at Kealing passed the STAAR math test, compared with 91 percent of the non–economically ...

What they all wanted, he said, was to evaluate students more broadly than just by how they scored on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR tests. “If we’re only going ...

STAAR test results ... “approaching grade level” or above in English and language arts, compared to 76% of students statewide; 52% in Waco ISD scored at that level in math, compared to 72% ...

STAAR test results show a decline in readiness for 3rd grade reading and math, as well as 8th grade reading and math. Texas school closing due to lack of state funding, says district “We flat ...

Many of these tests consisted of challenging, S.A.T.-caliber problems in areas like math, science and logic ... created — often with the types of questions graduate students might encounter ...