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 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 ...

Last spring, Massachusetts eighth-graders took the state’s first ever civics MCAS exam, finally setting a benchmark for ...

EdSource · How one student became a powerful voice for others with disabilities Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the national test ...