District takes a look at data while preparing for STAAR
At their last meeting, the ISD School Board took a hard look at the work that lies ahead for students and teachers as they ...
Fort Worth Report4d
Will Arlington ISD meet its 2025 STAAR goals? Here’s where student performance stands
Student practice test scores declined from 2024’s standardized test, widening gaps they must close to meet AISD’s performance ...
Texas Monthly19d
Is There a Better Solution to Our Public Schools’ Math Problem?
As long ago as the third millennium BC ... 41 percent of the lower-income students in eighth grade at Kealing passed the STAAR math test, compared with 91 percent of the non–economically ...
Houston Press1d
Northside Suspensions, Departures at Wharton and Test Scores Improvement Highlight HISD's Public Meeting
As if the Houston ISD Board of Managers and Superintendent Mike Miles needed another slogan hurled at them, Thursday night's ...
Dallas Morning News11d
Texas must boost confidence in machine scoring of STAAR test
A Richardson ISD student at Spring Creek Elementary in Dallas prepares for the STAAR test with a word exercise. The STAAR test is often the target of criticism by politicians, teachers’ unions ...
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STAAR Surgical Company Q4 Earnings Summary
(RTTNews) - Below are the earnings highlights for STAAR Surgical Company (STAA): Earnings: -$34.23 million in Q4 vs. $7.76 million in the same period last year. EPS: -$0.69 in Q4 vs. $0.16 in the ...
Texas Monthly19d
Fed Up With the STAAR Test, Some School Districts Are Betting on a More Holistic Approach
What they all wanted, he said, was to evaluate students more broadly than just by how they scored on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR tests. “If we’re only going ...
Lawmaker files bill to eliminate Texas Education Agency, says he wants STAAR testing to end
We're following new legislation to abolish the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and eliminate the position of commissioner of education. It would also eliminate the public school accountability and ...
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Texas scores poorly on the Nation’s Report Card; reading scores lowest in decades
Changes to the state standardized tests ... STAAR assessments, 2024 STAAR results align with some performance trends seen on the 2024 NAEP. STAAR has long been proven as a valid, reliable and on ...