Students at William Thomas Middle School recently had a unique opportunity to showcase their science skills on a national ...

Survey results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show 8th graders do less scientific inquiry now than five years ago.

I want you to think back to your eighth grade science class. For some of us, this walk down memory lane will bring nothing but cheerful memories. However, some of us will find this a dark and ...

Declines in a nationwide science test parallel an erosion of scores in math and reading, and widen the gap between the ...

The first NAEP science test to be administered since the pandemic saw the return of a gender gap that had nearly closed. But ...

As the eighth-graders struggle to float corks in the center of glass jars of water, the hubbub of their deliberations is muted against a background of baroque music. Why the music? Because teacher ...

White lab coat buttoned, glasses perched firmly on his head, eighth-grade science teacher Todd Munoz lies flat on the classroom table. Atop his stomach is a bowling ball. Next to him is a student ...

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 ...

School is back in session, bringing in the first wave of students born during the pandemic, dubbed “COVID kindergartners,” ...

In a drab hearing room in Austin, Tex., members of the State Board of Education, seated at small desks arranged in a broad, socially distanced circle, debated whether eighth grade science students ...