EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the national test ...

For those who appreciated learning the basics of science many years ago, here's a middle school reminder tackling questions on biology, chemistry, astronomy, physics and geography.

Fewer than one-third of American 8th graders are proficient in science, but most students are improving, and achievement gaps are closing between students who are black or Hispanic and their white ...