It's that time of year, when students around the Lone Star State take the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, to test, well...their academic readiness. The standardized ...

(NEXSTAR) — Are you smarter than a Texas fifth-grader taking the STAAR Test? As another new school year begins, it’s never a bad idea to know what the kids are learning — or how hard the lessons are.

Elementary and middle school students demonstrated mixed results this year in their performance on the first administration of Texas’ standardized tests. STAAR math scores for fifth- and eighth-grade ...

Due to the pandemic, STAAR tests were not given last spring. Let’s continue this practice and retire STAAR, or any similar version of it, forever. Teachers have much better things to do with their ...

Agency on Tuesday show State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) scores have seen improvements this year, even as San Antonio-area districts struggled with math.

STAAR testing begins across Texas on Tuesday. 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 ...