During eighth grade, children are typically going through puberty and experiencing the rapid and profound changes that take place as they mature into adults. Although they have been growing throughout ...

Eighth-graders learn to read and understand essays, speeches, biographies, and other types of historical, scientific, and technical material. Students also read and understand a wide range of ...

The practice of voluntarily delaying school transitions, either by red-shirting kindergarten, repeating twelfth grade, or introducing a gap year between high school and college, is a well-established ...

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the ...