This month, New York State reported that just 22 percent of the eighth graders who took this year’s Common Core-aligned math test received a passing mark. To find out how you compare with an eighth ...

The level of skill required to solve many of the math questions posed to 4th and 8th graders on the nation’s benchmark of academic progress is “extraordinarily easy,” asserts an analysis unveiled last ...

This story has been edited to add additional information about 12th grade mathematics and reading scores. Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the ...

Most eight-graders are failing U.S. history and government tests, according to the Nation’s Report Card 2014, a federal survey published this week. Could you do better? Test your knowledge with these ...

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 ...

PORT ORANGE − The study of Earth and space invites big questions and is one of the highlights of eighth-grade science. But getting to experience a celestial event, even if it's only a partial solar ...

WEYMOUTH – By 8th grade, students can do the Pythagorean Theorem in their sleep, describe the societies of the Paleolithic Age and explain how public domain licensing works in the digital world. Next ...