The Lafayette Parish School System announced today that it will transition 12th-grade and 8th-grade students to daily in-person learning beginning on Monday, February 1, 2021. LPSS says that these ...

Eighth graders’ grasp of key topics in history have plummeted, national test scores released this morning show—an alarming result at a time of deep political polarization, economic uncertainty, and ...

Under the Common Core State Standards, Algebra 1 is a much tougher course than what was taught previously in most states, teachers and standards experts say, in part because many of the concepts that ...

North Carolina school leaders say principals need to focus more on seventh- and eighth-grade students, to keep them from falling behind in school. That's because a new analysis shows seventh and ...

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 ...

Mineola High School suspended its new, video-based eighth-grade education program created by Superintendent Michael Nagler and his 19-year-old son, James, on Monday after facing pushback from parents, ...

GROVETOWN, Ga (WJBF) Keila Tucker is an 8th grade learning specialist. She makes sure her students are able to grasp each lesson. “It seems as if it’s my calling,” Tucker says. “It’s my purpose in ...