Shellie Ross of Wesley Rankin Community Center (right, holding “Reach for the STAARS” sign) takes part in a pep rally to welcome students at Edison Middle Learning Center on STAAR testing day. Erika ...

Almost half of East Texas students failed the writing portion of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test this spring, and today many have a chance to improve those scores. Results of ...

Many people helped my daughter grow as a writer: My husband and I nurtured her reading and took her on adventures. A decade’s worth of teachers coached her on writing and challenged her thinking.