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 ...

Encourage discussion as much as possible in your house. Ask your eighth-grader for their opinion about political and social issues, or about books, movies, and TV shows. Listen carefully and prompt ...

When: Ephrata Area school board meeting, March 17. What happened: The school board voted unanimously to approve the new language arts curriculum called My Perspectives for all students in grades six ...

Nancy Sanders isn’t the first teacher to have initiated a cultural exchange between her pupils and a class in a foreign country. But it’s hard to imagine any teacher immersing them more thoroughly in ...