Many people helped my daughter grow as a writer: My husband and I nurtured her reading and took her on adventures. A decade’s worth of teachers coached her on writing and challenged her thinking.

Shellie Ross of Wesley Rankin Community Center (right, holding “Reach for the STAARS” sign) takes part in a pep rally to welcome students at Edison Middle Learning Center on STAAR testing day. Erika ...

FILE – In this Feb. 12, 2015, file photo, sixth grade students use a practice session to prepare for a standards test. In Texas, students will move to a fully online STAAR standardized testing format.

The days of making sure your pencil marks stay neatly within the lines are over. This year, almost all Texas students will exercise their skills on the STAAR Test online, according to the Texas ...

There are a number of theories on why so many Texas students received zeroes on certain question types on this year’s state test. But one thing is for certain: The issue isn’t unique to Texas. In Fort ...

Abilene, TX — The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, also known as STAAR, will have another change this year to save the state money. "They've implemented writing across so many more ...

The STAAR test went fully online last year and now has a new grading process. Most written responses on STAAR exams will be graded by a computer, according to a new scoring process released by the TEA ...

Following changes to the state standardized test, Texas students will no longer take the STAAR on paper. The exam is moving online this year. Ian McVea Star-Telegram archives When Texas students take ...

For years, humans have been the ones to grade all of the tests. However, a new grading system rolled out by the Texas Education Agency is bringing the future of grading to classrooms. Better known as ...

Students sitting for their STAAR exams this week will be part of a new method of evaluating Texas schools: Their written answers on the state's standardized tests will be graded automatically by ...

When Texas students take annual state assessments this month, they’ll do more writing and fill in fewer bubbles. And, for the first time, nearly all of them will do it online. This year marks the ...