As Houston ISD students prepare to take the STAAR in less than two weeks, appointed Superintendent Mike Miles is instructing schools to avoid direct test preparation, instead telling principals to ...

The scenario has been a familiar one for students, parents and teachers in Houston ISD. As they approached the annual STAAR testing in the spring, hours of practice tests would replace large portions ...

Apr. 14—As STAAR testing begins April 15, two teachers at IDEA Yukon are taking different approaches they hope will engage students and make the ordeal a little bit more bearable. Most of the month of ...

DALLAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) — There's a new assignment for teachers in Dallas ISD: stop teaching to the test. It is a phrase that's become synonymous with pressure in public schools to prepare students ...

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.

After day after day watching her fourth grade daughter cry, Tereza and her husband finally got to the bottom of it. Daniela was afraid of taking the STAAR test this year. The prospect had become ...

KPRC 2 health reporter Haley Hernandez spoke with Dr. Staci Passe with BE SOMEONE Therapy on how parents can detect testing anxiety in their children and strategies to help them relieve them of those ...

Math teacher Becky McLaughlin presides over a STAAR prep session for 7th graders at Blocker Middle School in Texas City on March 24, 2017. Credit: Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune The Texas ...

BATON ROUGE, LA, UNITED STATES, July 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- MasteryPrep, the leading provider of TSIA2 and college readiness test prep solutions in Texas and ...

A student takes a math class to study for the STAAR state standardized tests in this archive photo. Ron Jenkins Star-Telegram file photo The season of state testing has recently passed for elementary ...

Grace Roa teaches third grade math at IDEA Yukon. Roa serves as the grade team leader and campus content lead for math for grades three to five and the regional math mentor for IDEA Permian Basin. As ...

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