Some Houston ISD parents say their children are being presented with STAAR exams even after they opt their children out of the state-mandated assessments. Houston education advocacy group Community ...

The Texas Legislature is considering changes to the STAAR, our state's high-stakes end-of-year test of student performance. So recently, we asked how the STAAR has affected you and people around you.

As stultifying as it is useless, as anxiety-inducing as it is deadening, STAAR testing is such an abject failure that it has succeeded in the unthinkable: uniting Democrats and Republicans in the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Texas lawmakers have sent legislation replacing STAAR, the state’s ...

There’s a big difference between testing that measures what kids have learned and testing that simply ranks them against one another, Mary Lynn Pruneda writes, explaining the options to replace the ...

Apr. 14—As STAAR testing begins April 15, two teachers at IDEA Yukon are taking different approaches they hope will engage students and make the ordeal a little bit more bearable. Most of the month of ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas House lawmakers voted to move forward with a bill to eliminate the STAAR test on Thursday. The House Public Education Committee voted to advance House Bill 8, which would replace ...

I’m still angry about private school vouchers coming to Texas, so it’s a little hard for me to trust anything coming out of our Legislature right now. The House voted, almost unanimously, to abolish ...

Read full article: Man found shot dead inside a vehicle in a Northeast Harris County neighborhood, suspects still on the loose A man named Jonah Cornnell McQueen has been charged with murder after ...

The Texas House and Senate are inching closer to a deal that would end the state’s standardized testing regime as we know it. Unfortunately, like a certain steamboat pilot turned author whose work we ...

House Bill 8 would split STAAR into three smaller tests and ban practice exams. West Oso officials see benefits but worry about increased testing pressure on students. Neighborhood News Reporter ...