The state's high-stakes math exam continues to stump many eighth-graders, with one out of four students failing on their first try this year, the Texas Education Agency announced Tuesday. The ...

AUSTIN - Texas students continued to struggle in math and science while recording improvements in reading and writing, according to statewide results of this year's standardized testing released ...

They're celebrating at Andy Woods Elementary in Tyler. Ice cream and cake for a job well done on last years TAAS test. But as he spoke at the party, Superintendent David Simmons kept the focus not on ...

All eighth-grade students from Lang Middle School in Dallas must retake the TAKS math test because of "significant and severe" irregularities, the Texas Education Agency announced Thursday. The ...

The Dallas school district said Tuesday that answers were changed on the math TAKS tests at Lang Middle School in April. The Dallas Independent School District's investigation found that the testing ...

When Ebonee Manning looks back on high school, pregnancy seems easy compared to the math tests.A skinny, pretty 18-year-old, she has failed the state exit exam at least six times since her junior year ...

Eight out of ten Houston School District fifth graders passed the state’s TAKS Math Test administered last month. Passing the test is required to move on to the sixth grade. The results show 81 ...

In the spring of 2009, just 1.6 percent of students at Sam Houston High School took the TAKS-Modified exam, a pared-down version of the state accountability test known as the Texas Assessment of ...