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The School Newspaper of Texas High School

Tiger Times

Academic pressure weighs on students constantly throughout the year. This can lead to many mental issues for struggling students: anxiety, burnout, fatigue and much more.

Pressure to perform

Story by Sage Stussy, Staff Writer February 24, 2026

Students leave school every day with piles of homework, lengthy to-do lists and newfound anxiety. The constant thought of getting good grades swirls around students’ brains. There will always be another...

Texas legislatures decided that the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test should be divided into three different sections and given to students at the beginning, middle and end of the year. While this idea remains in the process of planning, the change will be implemented during the 2027-28 school year.

A New Testing Era

Story by Sage Stussy, Staff Writer October 22, 2025

With pencils in hand and Chromebooks on desks, students sit down, prepared for the test of the year. As they log in to the Secure Test Browser, everything they learned throughout the year runs through...

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