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 ...

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The newest batch of K-12 textbook reviews from nonprofit EdReports.org has some bad news for major publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In the inaugural round of ratings two years ago, which included ...

New York state recently released instructional reports on Common Core scores and twice as many exam questions as last year to help schools and districts make decisions for the coming year. While the ...

D'Lee Pollock-Moore is an English teacher and department chair at Warren County High School in Warrenton, Georgia. She blogs at Musings from Master P, where this critique of the Common Core English ...

Since coming to office, the Obama Administration has been intent on standardizing what is taught at each grade level in all of the nation’s schools. It has used its flagship “Race to the Top” ...