A group of 36 girls entering the eighth grade received a weeklong crash course in the science and math behind climate change thanks to a unique, interactive curriculum designed and delivered by four ...

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This year’s food drive was extremely successful, bringing in 711 pounds of food to provide 593 meals to those who are in need ...

Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the national test was given. The latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ...

(TEXAS TRIBUNE) - Starting next year, Texas will require that eighth graders learn about climate change as part of a science curriculum overhaul approved two years ago. But which textbooks they’ll use ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- A Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education on Friday rejected seven of 12 proposed science textbooks for eighth graders that for the first time will require them to ...

Eighth grade students' science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the national test was given. The latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ...