Texas students begin crucial STAAR exams, seen by district leaders as a key checkpoint after months of learning. Testing runs through April 24.<\/p>\n
TYLER, Texas \u2014 It\u2019s testing time around Texas \u2014 and students in Tyler ISD are beginning to kick off the STAAR exam window, marking one of the most critical weeks of the school year.<\/p>\n
Over the next two weeks, students in fifth through eighth grades will take STAAR exams, measuring what they\u2019ve learned and whether they\u2019re ready for the next grade. Tyler ISD leaders call it a final checkpoint after months of instruction.<\/p>\n
While Texas plans to move toward shorter, more frequent testing by the 2027\u20132028 school year, students for now still face one major testing window.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we go through our curriculum throughout the school year, you know, in the last few weeks, we just kind of hone everything and make sure that the gaps that we know our students still have are the ones that we’re trying to close,” said Dr. James Cureton, Tyler ISD executive director of assessments and data analysis. “And we are essentially wrapping that up at this point. It’s just reminding students that, you know, again, this is a test you’ve been working towards all year. Let’s just take it like another day and finish it up.\u201d<\/p>\n
For parents looking to help their kids through the week, the district\u2019s advice is to keep things \u201clowkey\u201d at home, and that a good night\u2019s sleep and a high-protein breakfast are the best tools a student can have. The current testing window runs through April 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas students begin crucial STAAR exams, seen by district leaders as a key checkpoint after months of learning.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-249161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}