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State Superintendent of Education announced the 5th- and 8th-grade writing scores will not be part of A-F grading for this school year. Some districts expressed concern about the scores when they saw ...

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 ...

All of the Savannah-Chatham public school system's eighth-graders took a state writing test in January, and a whole lot of papers came back covered in red ink. Although the district has maintained a ...

The performance of Georgia 8th-graders on the state's writing exam dipped in 2012, with 82.3 percent of those tested meeting or exceeding expectations. Last year, 82.7 percent of 8th-graders in the ...