How to replace STAAR? Director of Education and Workforce Policy at Texas 2036 writes that the Texas Legislature should ...

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State lawmakers came close to eliminating the STAAR during their recent regular legislative session, but the effort fell ...

Replacing the STAAR test is a high-stakes decision, and not one to make lightly or in reaction to the avalanche of complaints that accompany any testing regimen.

Texas lawmakers return to Austin for the special session called by Governor Abbott. Eliminating and replacing the STAAR test is one of the topics.

House Bill 4 would have replaced the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test with three nationally norm-referenced tests, which lawmakers hoped would give teachers real-time ...

The Texas House and Senate were each pushing plans to overhaul the exams for Texas students, but couldn't agree on a final version.

In addition, norm-referenced tests are designed so that a certain share of students always fail, because success is gauged by one’s position on the “bell curve” in relation to other students.