When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already passed it in eighth grade but, due to the pandemic, hadn’t taken the ...

It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific notation, but ...

This story about eighth grade algebra was produced by The Hechinger ... Two girls at a back table sang, their worksheets empty. Two boys pulled up games on their laptops, as two other girls ...

Two girls at a back table sang, their worksheets empty ... middle schoolers. “Eighth grade, they’re just in full-on puberty, hormones,” said Zach Loy, another math teacher at the high ...

Believe it or not, Jones is not the only player taller than 6-foot-4 on Under Armour’s 8th Grade roster. Three offensive lineman are 6-foot-5. However, they do not have the weight to match. Jones does ...