Eighth-graders learn to read and understand essays, speeches, biographies, and other types of historical, scientific, and technical material. Students also read and understand a wide range of ...

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 ...

This item, a final examination for graduating eighth grade students (or graduating high school students, depending upon which version you have) is similar to other exams from that time and purpose, ...

Nancy Sanders isn’t the first teacher to have initiated a cultural exchange between her pupils and a class in a foreign country. But it’s hard to imagine any teacher immersing them more thoroughly in ...

A readability analysis of presidential candidate speeches finds most candidates using words and grammar typical of students in grades 6-8, though Donald Trump tends to lag behind the others. A ...