FILE – In this Feb. 12, 2015, file photo, sixth grade students use a practice session to prepare for a standards test. In Texas, students will move to a fully online STAAR standardized testing format.

Shellie Ross of Wesley Rankin Community Center (right, holding “Reach for the STAARS” sign) takes part in a pep rally to welcome students at Edison Middle Learning Center on STAAR testing day. Erika ...

Many people helped my daughter grow as a writer: My husband and I nurtured her reading and took her on adventures. A decade’s worth of teachers coached her on writing and challenged her thinking.

A second round of STAAR test results was released on Tuesday, showing mixed results in math and reading across the Houston area for third grade to eighth grade.

Erika De La Rosa was excited when she heard about the sweeping changes to the STAAR exam. "When they initially announced it, as an English teacher, it sounded like a fantastic idea because writing ...

Almost half of East Texas students failed the writing portion of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test this spring, and today many have a chance to improve those scores. Results of ...

The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, known as STAAR, are a series of state-mandated standardized tests used in Texas schools to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge. Diane ...

Of an estimated 18,646 Amarillo Independent School District students who took a State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam during the 2012-13 school year, about 1,700 are attending summer ...

Those of us who are anti-STAAR are not against testing. In fact, the formidable advocacy group, TAMSA, stands for Texas Advocating for Meaningful Assessment. Meaningful is key. According to educator ...

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as I read these words from the fifth or sixth page of instructions to seventh-graders taking the writing State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) ...

The free-form responses in the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness this year will be graded by new “automated scoring engines” designed to “read” what students write. Many people helped ...