The Texas Legislature is considering changes to the STAAR, our state's high-stakes end-of-year test of student performance.

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Want to learn more? See our newsletter page here. • Replaces STAAR with a nationally norm-referenced progress monitoring system more closely aligned with state standards. These tests would give us a ...

And they just all got kicked out for violating one cultural norm or another ... line X and line Y and line Z — you haven't cross-referenced Maimonides on this recently.” ...

There are those who argue that a nationally norm-referenced test would not be aligned with the Texas curriculum, unlike the STAAR, which is a criterion-referenced assessment. This is simply not ...