The scenario has been a familiar one for students, parents and teachers in Houston ISD. As they approached the annual STAAR testing in the spring, hours of practice tests would replace large portions ...

As Houston ISD students prepare to take the STAAR in less than two weeks, appointed Superintendent Mike Miles is instructing schools to avoid direct test preparation, instead telling principals to ...

The annual mandatory STAAR test will soon be gone under a new law Gov. Greg Abbott signed this week. Public school students in third through eighth grades take the high-stakes standardized test each ...

SAN ANTONIO – For many students and teachers, the STAAR test can be a source of stress and anxiety. But at Mark Twain Dual Language Academy, one teacher is flipping that narrative and getting ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Central Texas students are currently at the start of STAAR testing season and after a redesign of the test last year, districts are in for another change. How the tests are graded ...

Copperas Cove Junior High student Kyla Linnert described herself as “struggling” to understand the concepts of algebra. While admittedly she had a better understanding of the concepts than her peers, ...

KPRC 2 health reporter Haley Hernandez spoke with Dr. Staci Passe with BE SOMEONE Therapy on how parents can detect testing anxiety in their children and strategies to help them relieve them of those ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released the spring STAAR testing scores for third through eighth grade students on Tuesday, showing reading and language arts scores improved across ...

SAN ANTONIO – Data released Friday showed Texas students’ math and science scores on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness continue to slip since the pandemic. The Texas Education ...

After day after day watching her fourth grade daughter cry, Tereza and her husband finally got to the bottom of it. Daniela was afraid of taking the STAAR test this year. The prospect had become ...