The San Francisco school board approved a plan to restore algebra as an option at all middle schools, more than a decade after it was removed over equity concerns. By Dana Goldstein The San Francisco ...

PACIFIC BEACH – As it is an International Baccalaureate school, all Pacific Beach Middle students, grades 6-8, are required to perform community service each year. In eighth grade, their volunteer ...

LEOMINSTER — The Leominster eighth grade girls travel basketball team’s season came to a disappointing close on Saturday afternoon. The third-seeded Blue Devils dropped a heartbreaking 34-31 overtime ...

Across the country, 4th and 8th graders are taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress in a range of subjects this month, but I’ll be paying particularly close attention to how middle ...

WASHINGTON — A Minnesota middle school taught eighth-graders that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are using “tricky & violent tactics” to harass and arrest thousands of “legal ...

Four years after the pandemic emergency ended and K-12 performance plunged nationwide, New Jersey’s third through eighth graders are finally edging up to be on par with pre-pandemic levels, although ...

A class of Russian first-graders stood to attention this fall as a soldier who had served on the front line in Ukraine inspected their military uniforms. “Check your dress!” ordered the serviceman.

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

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Undoubtedly, mathematics can be complex in any of its numerous branches. Some children pick up the concepts quite quickly and go on to excel in math. However, math can be an immense struggle for those ...

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

(NEXSTAR) — School is back in session, bringing in the first wave of students born during the pandemic, dubbed “COVID kindergartners,” into classrooms nationwide. The students older than them, however ...