UPDATE, June 25: This story has been edited to include comments from Dallas ISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde. A sharp spike in the number of Texas students who scored a zero on the writing ...

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.

AUSTIN - A state expert denied Texas made its latest standardized test too difficult, saying Monday that such exams have always gotten harder but students tend to improve their scores over time.

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 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 ...

Texas is turning over some of the scoring process of its high-stakes standardized tests to robots. News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - East Texas public school students can expect a change in state testing in the coming years. The STAAR test at the end of the year will be replaced with three new shorter tests ...

Republican Party of Texas Chair Abraham George talks with a delegate during the Oct. 11, 2025 State Republican Executive Committee meeting at the Capitol to discuss potential censures of several ...

Frustration over the way Texas uses computers to grade students’ essays on the STAAR test is building after Dallas ISD officials again saw more than one-third of the exams they submitted for review ...

After more than a decade of Texas students sitting for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness or STAAR tests, the standardized test is slated to be scrapped. In September, Gov. Greg ...

STAAR testing begins across Texas on Tuesday. Students sitting for their STAAR exams this week will be part of a new method of evaluating Texas schools: Their written answers on the state’s ...