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State Superintendent of Education announced the 5th- and 8th-grade writing scores will not be part of A-F grading for this school year. Some districts expressed concern about the scores when they saw ...

After decades of paper-and-pencil tests, the new results from the “nation’s report card” in writing come from a computer-based assessment for the first time, but only about one-quarter of the 8th and ...

LINCOLN CO. — UPDATE at 1:40 p.m. Thursday: Deputies have identified the student behind the possible hit list at a Lincoln County school. Officials said a 15-year-old 8th grade student confessed to ...

State Superintendent Janet Barresi announced Thursday that all fifth- and eighth-graders’ writing test scores will be kept out of the calculation of Oklahoma’s 2014 A-F school report cards “in an ...

Eighth-graders learn to read and understand essays, speeches, biographies, and other types of historical, scientific, and technical material. Students also read and understand a wide range of ...

The performance of Georgia 8th-graders on the state's writing exam dipped in 2012, with 82.3 percent of those tested meeting or exceeding expectations. Last year, 82.7 percent of 8th-graders in the ...