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Those of us who are anti-STAAR are not against testing. In fact, the formidable advocacy group, TAMSA, stands for Texas Advocating for Meaningful Assessment. Meaningful is key. According to educator ...

Shellie Ross of Wesley Rankin Community Center (right, holding “Reach for the STAARS” sign) takes part in a pep rally to welcome students at Edison Middle Learning Center on STAAR testing day. Erika ...

Many people helped my daughter grow as a writer: My husband and I nurtured her reading and took her on adventures. A decade’s worth of teachers coached her on writing and challenged her thinking.

Texas students fared no better the second year they took a new, more difficult standardized test, with nearly half of them again failing the writing portion this spring. Students performed best on the ...

FILE – In this Feb. 12, 2015, file photo, sixth grade students use a practice session to prepare for a standards test. In Texas, students will move to a fully online STAAR standardized testing format.

Erika De La Rosa was excited when she heard about the sweeping changes to the STAAR exam. "When they initially announced it, as an English teacher, it sounded like a fantastic idea because writing ...

The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, known as STAAR, are a series of state-mandated standardized tests used in Texas schools to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge. Diane ...

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) released spring 2021 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) results on Monday. The results include exams in mathematics and reading for grades 3-8, ...

Almost half of East Texas students failed the writing portion of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test this spring, and today many have a chance to improve those scores. Results of ...

Of an estimated 18,646 Amarillo Independent School District students who took a State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam during the 2012-13 school year, about 1,700 are attending summer ...