Dallas Can Oak Cliff students react to the smell and sight as teacher Jerry Richardson (hand at left) holds an egg in his hand that was soaked in vinegar for three days.(David Woo) Its contents ...

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 ...

Students at Dyess Elementary School, in Abilene, on their way to take the STAAR test on March 24, 2016. Nellie Doneva/The Abilene Reporter-News/AP. There were grumblings about the STAAR test early on.

Students at Lone Star High School in Frisco wrote English essays during a practice test in February 2011. Frisco ISD gave most of its STAAR tests online, but a tech glitch bogged down the system ...

Test preparation tips. STAAR tests are based on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, the state standards "for what students should know and be able to do," according to the Texas Education ...

Measuring Poverty and Calling It Performance. Educators do not trust STAAR and the A-F system. A 2022 survey of 1,291 Texas public school teachers by the Charles Butt Foundation found that 98% ...

The bar for passing the tests will be raised and by the 2015-2016 school year, every student in Texas will have to pass a handful of STAAR tests to graduate from high school.

“This is extremely important as a literacy practice,” Morath said. ... Eighty-six percent of students in Texas took the STAAR test online last year, Morath said Nov. 18.

More STAAR? The Texas Senate Proposes Even Higher-Stakes Testing for Students. On Monday, ... in which the f-word somehow snuck into an illustration on a practice test.

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Central Texas students are currently at the start of STAAR testing season and after a redesign of the test last year, districts are in for another change. How the tests are ...