A Texas school district has joined calls for more "holistic" accountability by urging Gov. Greg Abbott to call a special ...

The STAAR’s technical documents suggest that the test is designed much like a norm-referenced test – that is, assessing students relative to their peers, rather than if they meet a fixed standard.

Texas children's performance on an annual reading test was basically flat from 2012 to 2021, even as the state spent billions of additional dollars o ...