On Tuesday, the Sheldon Middle School held its 30th Annual 8th Grade Science Fair. The competition involved students ...

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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 ...

Students in the 4th and 8th grades are showing more mastery of science, but high school seniors’ scores on the assessment known as “the nation’s report card” stayed flat from 2009. The results ...

Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news So I got a perfect score; I did in fact pass 8th grade science (about a billion years ago). However, I ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. American eighth graders posted their lowest science scores ...

Take that, Richard Dawkins! I always knew you were a little punk! Brian Benson, an eighth-grade student who won first place in the Life Science/Biology category for his project “Creation Wins!!!,” ...

He reads aloud question No. 1, and he emphasizes that students must include evidence and reasoning with their answer. “So, do not just say, ‘Yes,’” he tells his students. “Yes,” one of them responds ...

Last week, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) introduced Aristo, an artificial intelligence model that scored above 90 percent on an 8th grade science test and 80 percent on a ...

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 ...