The last time we checked in with our local school district, the trustees were pondering the connection between Austin ISD’s ...

The new STAAR test has been the subject of litigation that has prevented the release of school district A-F accountability ...

This November, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to keep or change a system that shapes the educational path for thousands of students, as they face a pivotal choice about the future of ...

Those changes included new question types, testing format and scoring methodology. “The STAAR itself was redesigned in the 2022-2023 school year, so the test itself has been different for the ...

Students in Arlington ISD face higher performance expectations heading into 2025, prompting some school board members to ...

Educator, writer, and researcher Dr. Irma Guadarrama pens a guest column about a lawsuit brought by various Texas school ...

Cheri Hendrick, director of assessment and accountability, informed the board this is the second year for what is commonly known as STAAR 2.0, a revised version of the tests. “There were limited ...

For Austin ISD and Round Rock ISD, multiple factors have led to lower achievement in recent years, officials said.

The data is sobering. Math scores are dropping, reading scores are stagnant, and absenteeism rates are rising. These ...

Nacogdoches ISD has joined a lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency that claims the state’s new, automated online grading system for the STAAR test is flawed. The district’s board of trustees ...

There are perfectly legal explanations for why schools’ demographics might not change after the fall of affirmative action.

I really do think the pandemic brought everybody’s attention to, ‘Houston, we might have a math problem,’” said Susan Diaz, ...