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 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 ...

Texas public school students began taking the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests this month. The STAAR tests evaluate student knowledge and skills learned throughout the school ...

San Antonio – State standardized testing gets underway across public schools in early April. Families can take a look at the sample questions that their children will see on the Texas Education Agency ...

Grace Roa teaches third grade math at IDEA Yukon. Roa serves as the grade team leader and campus content lead for math for grades three to five and the regional math mentor for IDEA Permian Basin. As ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A student takes a math class to study for the STAAR state standardized tests in this archive photo. Ron Jenkins Star-Telegram file photo The season of state testing has recently passed for elementary ...

Math teacher Becky McLaughlin presides over a STAAR prep session for 7th graders at Blocker Middle School in Texas City on March 24, 2017. (Michael Stravato For The Texas Tribune, Michael Stravato For ...