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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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. Incarnate Word overcomes Cor Jesu's test and moves one win ...

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.

Are you smarter than a 13-year-old? Probably. In 1895? Debatable. Creative thinking expert Michael Michalko dug up an eighth-grade final exam taken by students in Salina, Kansas in 1895. It was ...