In Fort Worth and across the state, the number of students who received zeros on constructed response questions on this year’s State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR ...

The new STAAR test has been the subject of litigation that has prevented the release of school district A-F accountability ...

STAAR is the widely criticized assessment instrument used to grade students, schools, and whole school districts. At the ...

The data is sobering. Math scores are dropping, reading scores are stagnant, and absenteeism rates are rising. These ...

Educator, writer, and researcher Dr. Irma Guadarrama pens a guest column about a lawsuit brought by various Texas school ...

The STAAR was redesigned in 2022-23 to be more rigorous and complicated with different question types. In 2023-24, the open-ended responses on the English language arts part were graded by an ...

Those changes included new question types, testing format and scoring methodology. “The STAAR itself was redesigned in the 2022-2023 school year, so the test itself has been different for the ...

However, based on the data received, and amid significant changes to the STAAR test and accountability system, including new question types, testing format, and scoring methodology, the state ...

This is the second year of the revised STAAR assessment, which includes changes such as updated question formats and computer grading on written responses. The results of the STAAR assessment ...

A board member curses at colleague during tense exchange. The board members did not address the incident again during the ...

El Campo ISD presented its report on the 2024 STAAR Testing at its Sept. 25 meeting, showing results largely in line with the ...