Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of Americans take high-stakes exams every year. Caiaimage/Chris Ryan/iStock via Getty Images Texas children’s performance ...

A bill meant to replace Texas’ end-of-year standardized test with three shorter tests during the school year appears poised to die in the final hours of the legislative year. House Bill 4 would have ...

This special session, lawmakers have a chance to do what they nearly accomplished just weeks ago: eliminate the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, better known as the STAAR test, and ...

We have heard plenty of criticism of the STAAR exam over the years, some of it valid and some of it aimed at reducing accountability and a deeper understanding of student performance. As lawmakers ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas House committee on public education advanced a plan that would eliminate the state’s current standardized test and replace it with a new type of testing that is designed ...

I recently did a peer-reviewed deep dive into the test design documentation to figure out why the reported results weren’t showing improvement. I found the flat scores were at least in part by design.