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 ...

Public school students in third through eighth grade and high schoolers take the bulk of their STAAR exams in April of each school year.

STAAR test scores out Friday show small gains in some districts, but overall the results show not much change in how students are performing. Some superintendents say new grading practices for the ...

A new Texas law will change the testing model in two years, but for now, here's what to know about spring 2026 standardized tests.

As North Texas students continue with STAAR testing, there is a major change to the way part of the test will be scored. A computer program and technology will score written answers. According to the ...

The days of making sure your pencil marks stay neatly within the lines are over. This year, almost all Texas students will exercise their skills on the STAAR Test online, according to the Texas ...

Texas’ annual STAAR test could be replaced with three shorter tests under a new bill headed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. (Yfat Yossifor | KERA) A bill to end Texas’ STAAR test in 2027 is likely to be ...

With all the news about the results of the dreaded, hated STAAR test, it is important to consider how questions are asked, whether students are prepared for exams and whether state officials are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are a number of theories on why so many Texas students received zeroes on certain question types on this year’s state test.

Dallas Can Oak Cliff students react to the smell and sight as teacher Jerry Richardson (hand at left) holds an egg in his hand that was soaked in vinegar for three days.(David Woo) Its contents are a ...

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 ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - As students are getting ready for summer, they are now able to view the preliminary scores for their End of Course STAAR tests, which were released on Friday, June 7th. Last year ...