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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EdSource · Trump's cuts to Hispanic-Serving Institutions hit community college student programs hard Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first ...

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 ...