Thursday’s Show: Examining The STAAR Test, And Houston’s Best New Restaurants (Dec. 5, 2019)

On Thursday’s Houston Matters: The results are in from a state-ordered study of this year's STAAR exams. We learn what the study found about the effectiveness of the test in measuring student knowledge:

Also this hour: Local food writers discuss their favorite new restaurants that opened this year, in the first part of a two-part installment of The Full Menu:

Then, SpaceX mission manager Andrew Rader tells us how humankind’s exploration of the earth is responsible for most of the advances in civilization throughout history, the subject of his new book, Beyond the Known:

Plus, Maria Heg of Zine Fest Houston talks about making zines, self-published magazines or comics:

And we meet local fashion designer Alan Gonzalez, who’s a contestant on the new season of Project Runway:

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