One of the most mindless features of modern education are standardized tests, which require pupils to regurgitate information usually committed to memory in rote fashion. Fortunately, a machine has ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--School districts that used STEMscopes Texas, the most widely used science curriculum in Texas, for eighth grade science instruction outperformed other districts on the ...

A new report from the Data Science 4 Everyone coalition reveals that data literacy skills among fourth and eighth-grade students have declined significantly over the last decade even as these skills ...

Science is usually one of the more hands-on subjects in middle school: Students design research questions, draw diagrams, and conduct experiments. But the country’s 8th graders are less likely to do ...

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U.S. eighth-grade students are improving in science and math compared with international peers, but the nation’s fourth-graders have stagnant scores and are slipping behind in both subjects, according ...