Reaching for the STAAR

While on a mission to reach the STAAR (State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness), sometime it is easier to rest on a cloud for a second.  

 STAAR is a standardized test, it contains information from every aspect of the course it is being tested over.  Teachers make it their mission to cover all the information the STAAR includes, but sometimes they decide to rest on a "cloud," and explain or discuss thoroughly.  While they are resting on that cloud, they start to get behind, and in the end may not have covered all the information.

One word will dominate local school boards, classrooms and dinner table discussions for the next month: “STAAR.”  These conversations won’t focus on the constellations of the night sky; rather, students, parents, educators and city leaders will spend countless hours obsessing on the newly implemented State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR examinations, and what their impact will be on the future of our city’s schools. 


~Patrick Kobler

"STAAR - State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness." Plano Independent 
     School District. Plano Independent School District, 2004-2014. Web. 3 Feb. 
     2014. 

 "Teach Our Students to Be Stars, Not Simply to Pass the STAAR." Rivard Report. 

     Rivard Report, 1 May 2012. Web. 11 Feb. 2014. 
The STAAR test includes a lot of information that students are required to remember by the time of the test.  In a rush to cover all the information, teachers tend to have less time for explanations. Not expanding on a subject or discussing it thoroughly causes students to panic when the test is coming up.  Students usually do not enjoy standardized tests, or their weight (View Page 2: Problems and Page 3: Stories and Protests).  This website shows the opinions of other people who believe that a STAAR test is not the only way to find out how much students are learning in a class.
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