(CNN) — Fourth- and eighth-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational assessment that shows the devastating impact of Covid-19 on ...

Eighth-grade math scores rose in Washington state this year on a closely watched exam known as the “nation’s report card.” Washington students also continued to score higher than the national average ...

Want to help your eighth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand rational and irrational numbers. Know that a rational number can be ...

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Syracuse, N.Y. -- Fewer than 20% of Syracuse students in grades 3-8 were proficient in math and English last year. The new state test data out today gives one of the first deep looks at the ...

BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific ...

Only 26% of 8th graders tested proficient in math in 2024. Research shows that 7th grade is the tipping point at which students either stay on track for STEM or fall permanently behind. Here's what ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- The vast majority of RPS seventh-graders took the eighth-grade math Standards of Learning (SOL) test during the 2021-2022 school year, as opposed to the seventh-grade math SOL. And of ...