The Texas Tribune on MSN

Texas is replacing STAAR. Here is what schools’ new standardized tests will look like.

House Bill 8 scraps the unpopular exam for three shorter tests at the beginning, middle and end of the year starting in the ...
NJ.com

N.J. is completely overhauling how it tests students. Teachers say they were blindsided.

UPDATE: This story was updated Friday evening with comments from a Murphy administration official. New Jersey schools will begin using a new kind of “adaptive” statewide standardized test next spring ...
Education Week

How Teachers in This District Pushed to Have Students Spend Less Time Testing

Corrected: A previous version of this article misstated the consequences for low-performing schools related to state and federally required testing. Students in one Arizona district will take fewer ...

Here’s what Texas families need to know about STAAR test changes

The annual mandatory STAAR test will soon be gone under a new law Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Wednesday night. Public school students in third through eighth grades take the high-stakes standardized ...

Inside what will and likely won’t change on Maryland standardized tests

There’s a tension between the state’s responsibility to improve MCAP and its duty to ensure tests are comparable from year to ...
Yahoo

Proposal to replace Oklahoma state tests faces mixed response, rocky future

Students walk into Thelma R. Parks Elementary in Oklahoma City on the first day of school on Aug. 13. (Photo by Nuria Martinez-Keel/Oklahoma Voice) OKLAHOMA CITY — When Carri Hicks thinks of state ...

What do the MCA test scores mean and how should parents interpret them?

MCA scores help officials know if their school is making progress and help the state identify which schools need support, ...