Highland Park ISD has introduced a new tool to help students sharpen their writing skills — the WrAP, short for Writing ...

The days of making sure your pencil marks stay neatly within the lines are over. This year, almost all Texas students will exercise their skills on the STAAR Test online, according to the Texas ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students at Lone Star High School in Frisco wrote English essays during a practice test in February 2011. We doubted that lawmakers would be able to finalize a strong alternative for Texas’ ...

So far this legislative session, lawmakers have been focused on teacher raises, school choice and education funding. But there’s another key education issue on the horizon: standardized testing and ...