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Students across Texas will be taking the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (or STAAR) test for the next few weeks. Testing started on April 18, and will continue through May 12. There ...

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 ...

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 Texas Education Agency released elementary and middle school state assessment results Friday, showing that Coastal Bend and Corpus Christi students performed either similarly to or slightly below ...

Public school students in third through eighth grade and high schoolers take the bulk of their STAAR exams in April of each school year.

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – State testing data released Friday shows students’ math and science scores slipped as they struggle to catch up after the pandemic. Texas elementary students who took the State of ...