Want to help your eighth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand rational and irrational numbers. Know that a rational number can be ...

Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the national test was ...

Sports provide an engaging way of exploring a host of mathematical concepts. Any hard-core baseball fan knows that the game can’t truly be appreciated without an understanding of some essential ...

Eighth graders’ scores in U.S. history and civics dropped on the test known as the “Nation’s Report Card”—a decline that brings student achievement in these subjects back down to 1990s levels. The new ...

"The 2024 Nation’s Report Card makes clear that U.S. students have not yet recovered from the pandemic’s impact. Five years later, scores remain below pre-pandemic levels across every grade and ...

EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the national test was given. The latest results of ...

Even at high-performing, wealthy high schools, students who have fallen far behind academically in 4th and 8th grade have less than a 1 in 3 chance of being ready for college or a career by the end of ...

The assessments were the first since the pandemic for eighth graders in science and 12th graders in reading and math. They ...