Students at Southwestern Middle School recently had the chance to show off their creative sides in a science fair for ...

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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 ...

Amalia Baugh, an eighth-grade student from Freshwater Charter Middle School, has made waves in the science community by winning several awards for her outstanding project in Earth and environmental ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--School districts that used STEMscopes Texas, the most widely used science curriculum in Texas, for eighth grade science instruction outperformed other districts on the ...

Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the national test was given. The latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- A Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education on Friday rejected seven of 12 proposed science textbooks for eighth graders that for the first time will require them to ...

Eighth grade students' science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the national test was given. The latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ...