Houston ISD's top-performing schools in fifth-grade STAAR exams were typically wealthier campuses with specialized magnet programs, according to data released by the Texas Education Agency Tuesday.

In schools across the country, about one-third of students are behind grade level in reading. Even in Massachusetts, which consistently ranks at the top of various education metrics, this crisis ...

Missouri students are headed down a dangerous road. Only 30% of the state’s fourth-graders are reading at grade level. The numbers are even more alarming for Black and Hispanic students in the state.

Editor's Note: Corrections were made to this story on Sept. 29. Two elementary schools in the Mechanicsburg Area School District did not make state targets in fifth-grade reading in 2010-11, leaving ...

Texas elementary and middle school students are passing STAAR exams at higher rates across many subjects in 2025 compared to 2024, according to new scores data released Tuesday by the Texas Education ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Missouri students are headed down a dangerous road. Only 30% of the state’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students work on reading comprehension with retired teacher Wanda Mckenzie at Clifford Davis Elementary School on Feb. 3, 2025, in ...

Two years into state intervention, students at Houston ISD campuses within the New Education System have made gains that outpaced their peers — although their scores remain far behind their ...

San Antonio elementary and middle school students outperformed the high schoolers on this year’s STAAR test, with major gains in reading and science — but lagging math and social studies scores signal ...

Houston ISD's standardized test scores are improving and on par with statewide averages after spending years trailing behind, a feat state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles attributed Thursday to ...