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 ...

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 ...

Eighth-grader Liam Bayne has always liked math and science -- that’s one reason his family sent him to The Alternative School For Math and Science (ASMS). But he was surprised and excited when his ...

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 ...

Students in the 4th and 8th grades are showing more mastery of science, but high school seniors’ scores on the assessment known as “the nation’s report card” stayed flat from 2009. The results ...

Tyraine Ragsdale, aka Grand Hank (left), challenges 8th grade students’ perception during an interactive science demonstration at the Allen M. Stearne middle school in Philadelphia on February 6, 2024 ...