New York eighth-grader Arvind Mahankali is the fiercest speller around. No word can foil him, as he proved Thursday when he beat out other Scripps National Spelling Bee contestants by spelling ...

See how many of these common 8th grade vocabulary words you can recognize when some of history's greatest authors use them.

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.

In eighth grade, students read and understand a wide variety of informational texts.

Incarnate Word (28-2), the seven-time defending state champion, will play Staley (30-1) at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Class 6 championship.

In early January, a ten-member school board in McMinn County, Tennessee, voted unanimously to ban Maus, a graphic novel about the Holocaust, from its eighth-grade curriculum.

An eighth-grade final exam in Kansas goes viral, showcasing the challenges of modern education.