Any hard-core baseball fan knows that the game can’t truly be appreciated without an understanding of some essential statistics, ... 8th grade math skills: ...

Math is really hard, so of course everyone has an opinion on it. ... (1998-2013), the fraction of students taking algebra by eighth grade quadrupled from 16% to 67%, ...

Wendy Habeeb, an 8th grade math teacher at Salida Middle School in California, said that she is constantly plotting on a number line on the white board, so that students can see connections ...

In eighth-grade math, for example, the gap in scores between Washington’s Hispanic/Latinx and white students was 30 points, almost the same as it was in 2003.

In eighth-grade reading, the 29-point gap between Black and white students in Washington hasn't improved since 1998. NAEP exams are graded on a 500-point scale.