A Texas House panel on Thursday advanced a proposal to scrap STAAR, the end-of-the-year state standardized test, but not without some Democrats lamenting the changes the lower chamber made to reach an agreement with the Senate.
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A legislative effort to scrap the STAAR test to respond to concerns that the test puts unnecessary pressure on students died in the last days of the legislative session.
While many of its peers and Texas schools as a whole saw declines in mathematics proficiency this year among elementary and middle school students, Houston ISD exhibited improvement.
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HISD, in its first year under state-appointed leadership, enjoyed year-over-year increases in its percentages of students meeting grade-level standards in math for grades 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8, according to STAAR standardized test results. Most of the other large urban school districts in Texas saw proficiency decreases in math in most of the grade levels tested. Much the same was the case in other large districts in the Houston area.
STAAR testing statewide has kicked off this month and some parents in Houston ISD are choosing to allow their students to opt out of the state-mandated test.
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Before the changes, about 5% of students across the state scored a zero out of 8 on “constructed response” writing questions, which are similar to essay prompts. After the changes, 46% of fourth graders scored a zero out of 10 — 20% in seventh grade, and 25% in high school.
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The Texas Education Agency changed a lot about the state’s standardized test over the past couple years. Researchers and teachers worry the new approach to writing could kill creativity, but the TEA argues it better reflects how learning happens in class.
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