It's that time of year, when students around the Lone Star State take the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, to test, well...their academic readiness. The standardized ...

Never miss a story with The Brief, our free newsletter. We redesigned this tool with more timely data and context to help Texans interpret information about our schools. Independent Texas reporting ...

More local school districts are moving their eighth-graders out of grade-level math and into Algebra 1, usually a ninth-grade course, according to this year’s passing rates for the State of Texas ...

The share of Houston ISD's third through eighth grade students who met grade level in every State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam subject improved or stayed flat when compared to the ...

Algebra 1 in eighth grade is a gateway to higher level math, yet 1 in 4 schools in New York state don’t offer it, a new ...

Fourth- and eighth-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational assessment showing the devastating effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on ...

It's that time of year, when students around the Lone Star State take the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, to test, well...their academic readiness. The standardized ...

Nevada students are slowly making gains in math in elementary school, but by the time eighth grade rolls around that progress comes to a screeching halt. At least that’s what the most recent testing ...