Other STAAR unknowns include the passing standards — how many questions students must correctly answer for it to be considered passing — which have not yet been set by the state. The passing standard ...

Texas students this spring will take a newly redesigned version of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test, a change educators and school district officials hope will better align ...

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 ...

A long-simmering debate over the validity of Texas’ primary public education standardized test, known as STAAR, will reach the Capitol in Austin on Tuesday, when school superintendents and Education ...

Students at Lone Star High School in Frisco wrote English essays during a practice test in February 2011. Frisco ISD gave most of its STAAR tests online, but a tech glitch bogged down the system and ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas students performed about the same on the STAAR test this year as they did last year, except in English II, where they did better, and U.S. History, where they did worse. On ...