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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...