Houston Landing on MSN4d
Two days inside an HISD school that improved from F to B grade under Mike Miles’ changes
Forest Brook Middle School made a remarkable jump in the state's academic rating system last year. The Houston Landing ...
The Austin Chronicle10d
Can Confidence in the STAAR Test Get Any Lower?
The last time we checked in with our local school district, the trustees were pondering the connection between Austin ISD’s ...
San Antonio Express-News6d
We all have roles in helping students succeed in Texas public education
In the heart of San Antonio’s historic West Side sits Washington Irving Dual Language Academy, and inside those walls lies a model for successful education. A Senate Bill 1882 partnership school ...
The Daily Sentinel26d
Nacogdoches ISD joins lawsuit against TEA over 'radical' changes to STAAR test
Nacogdoches ISD has joined a lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency that claims the state’s new, automated online grading system for the STAAR test is flawed. The district’s board of trustees ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel4d
Half of Wisconsin students met math, reading expectations. What that means is another issue.
Just over half of Wisconsin's grade school students are meeting, or exceed, state standards for math and English language arts, according to data from standardized tests ... 11.6% of students ...
KERA News25d
Judge blocks Texas Education Agency from releasing school ratings
It’s the second year in a row that the state has not been able to release A-F ratings after it overhauled its method of grading STAAR tests ... said it expects a B grade. Both Irving ISD ...
New York Post29d
10 LA schools could stop standardized tests after board president calls testing industry ‘repugnant’
Goldberg added that “we began to have an industry providing enormous amount of materials: tests, practice tests, practice-practice tests and regional tests; middle-school-year tests, end-of-the ...
Charlotte Observer13d
What do standardized tests say about college achievement?
Numerade analyzed academic research to see what standardized test scores say about academic success. The SAT contains two ...
Leader-News12d
STAAR scores a mixed bag
El Campo ISD presented its report on the 2024 STAAR Testing at its Sept. 25 meeting, showing results largely in line with the ...
USA Today21d
Free COVID tests are coming soon: How and when to order them
The program, offered through the Department of Health and Human Services, will offer up to four nasal swab tests per U.S. household when it opens at COVIDTests.gov. HHS is reopening the program at ...
Space.com25d
SpaceX fires up 6th Starship to prep for test flight (video, photo)
18) at its Starbase site in South Texas, briefly igniting the six Raptor engines of Ship 31, the upper stage of the vehicle that will conduct the sixth Starship test flight. SpaceX posted a photo ...
Time20d
How to Order Your Free COVID-19 Tests
Following a summer uptick of COVID-19 infections, Americans are now able to order free COVID-19 tests starting Thursday ... Individuals as young as 6 months will be eligible to receive the ...