Magnolia Independent School District is climbing and holding steady with its math test scores, according to Clydene Freeman, the district’s curriculum director. Freeman presented preliminary Texas ...

Houston ISD officials touted improvements in student math and science test scores last Thursday while acknowledging that changes in the state’s accountability system will likely mean most campuses ...

TAKS Ready Test Practice gives students practice with problems and questions that correlate to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). TAKS Ready simulates the test-taking experience by ...

Ebonee Manning, 18, has failed the TAKS at least six times. She's being tutored this summer. When Ebonee Manning looks back on high school, pregnancy seems easy compared to the math tests. A skinny, ...

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 ...

DISD trustee Ron Price just told me that he was notified today that all 8th graders at Lang Middle School will have to retake the math portion of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills -- this ...

HOUSTON The boost in achievement happened both in terms of better passing rates and a higher percentage of students reaching the tougher 'commended' level that shows whether students are learning at a ...

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 ...