The New York Times

Texas Says Most of Its Students Aren’t Reading at Grade Level. But Are Its Tests Fair?

MESQUITE, Tex. — Reading is 9-year-old Kristen Hernandez’s thing. She pores over mystery books, stories about vampires and even a college-level anatomy textbook that her mother is studying to become ...
The Texas Tribune

Is STAAR too hard on young readers? The standardized test is in lawmakers’ crosshairs again.

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Texas Monthly

New Study Reaffirms That STAAR Reading Tests Are Not on Grade Level

Opponents of the STAAR test have new evidence that the reading portion of the standardized exam given to all Texas schoolchildren remains flawed. Professors Susan Szabo and Becky Barton Sinclair, both ...
The Washington Post

More D.C. students reading on grade level than a decade ago, test scores show

More students in the District are reading on grade level than before the pandemic, according to test data shared Thursday. More than 37 percent of students scored proficient on standardized reading ...
WLRN

Rising test scores: Breath of fresh air for Broward school board amid financial crisis

Since 2024, data shows an upward trend in passing rates for the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking, or FAST. Despite ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

We expect kids to be on grade level in math. A lot of them aren’t.

In listening sessions with state leaders over the last few weeks, Georgia teachers voiced concerns about a test-based accountability system that demands all students be at the same place at the same ...