I want you to think back to your eighth grade science class. For some of us, this walk down memory lane will bring nothing but cheerful memories. However, some of us will find this a dark and ...

The latest release of 8th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress scores last month revealed a troubling reality: ...

As the eighth-graders struggle to float corks in the center of glass jars of water, the hubbub of their deliberations is muted against a background of baroque music. Why the music? Because teacher ...

White lab coat buttoned, glasses perched firmly on his head, eighth-grade science teacher Todd Munoz lies flat on the classroom table. Atop his stomach is a bowling ball. Next to him is a student ...

He reads aloud question No. 1, and he emphasizes that students must include evidence and reasoning with their answer. “So, do not just say, ‘Yes,’” he tells his students. “Yes,” one of them responds ...

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 ...

Science is usually one of the more hands-on subjects in middle school: Students design research questions, draw diagrams, and conduct experiments. But the country’s 8th graders are less likely to do ...

In a drab hearing room in Austin, Tex., members of the State Board of Education, seated at small desks arranged in a broad, socially distanced circle, debated whether eighth grade science students ...

At Stewartville Middle School, science class underwent a major upgrade. 7th and 8th-grade science teacher Mr. Brandon Hoth is ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C-- A team of investors from Mr. Schnably's 8th-grade science class at Jefferson Middle School in Winston-Salem has made it to the finals of the Samsung Solve For Tomorrow Contest. It ...