“Eighth grade, they’re just in full-on puberty, hormones,” said Zach Loy, another math teacher at the high school, an hour’s drive from Minneapolis. “Are they capable of sitting down and focusing on ...

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When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already ...

The LaGrange Daily News is doing a Q&A with all of the teachers of the year in the Troup County School System. Today, we are ...

The average math score among both fourth and eighth graders in 2023 was statistically the same as in 1995 — when some of today’s students' own parents were in grade school themselves. Fourth graders ...

The following percentages are the percent of students who "met" grade level on benchmark exams.

The lawsuit claims that the district’s ninth grade math placement is based only on the student’s eighth grade math class results, despite the district stating that it considers more factors.

The science and math assessment focuses on students in ... Meanwhile, 45 percent of eighth-grade students answered that they are “good” at science; the international average was 51 percent.

“Eighth grade, they’re just in full-on puberty, hormones,” said Zach Loy, another math teacher at the high school, an hour’s drive from Minneapolis. “Are they capable of sitting down and focusing on ...

Adams: My math-and-physics-teacher husband knew that if our daughter didn't take geometry in 9th grade, she'd never get to calculus. He was right.