Abington Heights Eighth grader Grace Keeler was the lead in this year’s musical performance at the middle school, playing ...

Until the age of 19, Lizzie Ens was a member of a Swartzentruber Amish community in Ohio. Like her 18 other siblings, she ...

NBA player Michael Porter Jr. has made several inflammatory comments regarding his opinion that the world's best women's basketball players couldn't compete against elite high school men's basketball ...

Michael Porter Jr. and Lonzo Ball got into an interesting podcast discussion recently. It's not a new conversation. Since the WNBA existed, guys have wondered how their talent compares to the best ...

150 seventh graders and 150 eighth graders are expected to be part of the inaugural Middle School Scholars when classes begin in August. The Middle School Scholars program will be a magnet school. The ...

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A West Ottawa Middle School student is recovering from a concussion after his mother says he was tackled by a coach during football practice late last month.

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Last spring, Massachusetts eighth-graders took the state’s first ever civics MCAS exam, finally setting a benchmark for achievement more than six years after the state passed new social studies ...

He reads aloud question No. 1, and he emphasizes that students must include evidence and reasoning with their answer. “So, do not just say, ‘Yes,’” he tells his students. “Yes,” one of them responds ...

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EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the national test ...

For decades, school districts have sorted students into neat grade groupings: K–5, 6–8, 9–12. But those lines have blurred. Some districts are reviving stand-alone middle schools. Others are phasing ...