Encourage discussion as much as possible in your house. Ask your eighth-grader for their opinion about political and social issues, or about books, movies, and TV shows. Listen carefully and prompt ...

A sharp rise in students without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators and policymakers.

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, ...

Students in one Tucson-area school district will take a civics test that Arizona now requires of high school graduates at the end of 8th grade, the Arizona Daily Star reports. Arizona’s legislature ...

Amid the excitement of high school and college graduation season, some people may overlook an earlier educational achievement: the end of eighth grade. For Jack Harburger, who will graduate from ...

Next's search for the smartest kid in Colorado led us to an eighth grade student who is learning alongside DU freshmen. Angelina Akdis, an eighth-grade student at The Rick Center for Gifted Children, ...