Scores for 8th graders have been flat since 2002, and as the chart on the right shows, they’ve been flat at pretty much all achievement levels. Good readers are reading as well as they did in ...

These are 14 of the hardest words to pronounce in the English language—and some of them are standard 8th-grade vocabulary words. 12 / 33. Nicole Fornabaio/Rd.com, iStock/EnginKorkmaz.

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