Are you an accountant who plugs functions into spreadsheets to automate your math? An engineer who hasn’t practiced your multiplication tables in decades? An artist who avoids math at all costs?

Passing rates on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, generally improved for fifth-grade reading and math across Bexar County, but the eighth-grade results were mixed.

Whoever first used the word "elementary" to descibe something simple or obvious clearly wasn't talking about Texas' standardized test. Monday, public school students across the state will take the ...

From the Texas Education Agency: AUSTIN, TX – Statewide passing rates for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®) mathematics and reading tests in grades three through eight ...

A student takes a math class to study for the STAAR state standardized tests in this archive photo. Ron Jenkins Star-Telegram file photo Are you an accountant who plugs functions into spreadsheets to ...