Thankfully, the brave advocates and policymakers who fought for these consumer protections during the 20th century didn’t have the leaders of the modern education choice movement whispering in their ...

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

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The bill would have replaced the STAAR test with three shorter tests, but House and Senate lawmakers seem unable to reconcile differences.

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

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.

Norm-referenced tests provide data, but without criterion-referenced tests, you don't actually know whether students are mastering the skills. I would also hope that the test is more culturally ...

The Texas Senate on Tuesday approved the House bill that would scrap STAAR, the state standardized test widely criticized for taking instructional time away fro ...

The House favors grading Texas students by comparing their performance to their peers around the country, what is known as a “norm-referenced test.” Proponents of this kind of test say it ...