Mike Morath Articles – Texas Monthly

March 25, 2019

New Study Reaffirms That STAAR Reading Tests Are Not on Grade Level

Eight different readability formulas showed the test's reading portions are at a higher level of difficulty than appropriate for the grades they’re assessing.

By Mimi Swartz

Politics & Policy |

March 13, 2019

Testing the Test: New Legislation Filed to Audit STAAR

More challenges emerge to Texas’s least favorite exam.

By Mimi Swartz

News & Politics |

February 20, 2019

Are Texas Kids Failing? Or Are the Tests Rigged?

Leading educators and testing experts have studied the exams and find that they are asking kids to understand passages aimed two or more years above their grade level.

By Mimi Swartz