I'm in the eighth grade so, naturally, I chose Japanese as my second foreign language.
His single mother raised him until he left home in the eighth grade.
He first started experiencing symptoms of depression in the eighth grade, losing a great deal of weight and becoming despondent.
He was the only boy to carry a briefcase to school in the eighth grade, and in high school he joined the debate team.
The researchers identified about 2, 000 private Amish schools with total enrollment of roughly 55, 000 children, the oldest in eighth grade.
They also have to stay in the Bartlett school through eighth grade and keep out of trouble with the law.
Rhode Island, for example, in 2009 passed regulations requiring that all health insurance policies in the state, beginning in 2010, be written at an eighth-grade level, which is the average reading level for state residents.
In eighth grade, the national reading score hasn't budged since 2002, but students in Atlanta, Houston and Los Angeles posted gains, while the other cities remained steady.
In eighth-grade math, nine of the 10 districts equaled or surpassed the average national improvement of seven points only Cleveland didn't.
Michelle Brooks, who finished eighth grade in June, vividly recalls the chaos of cops and helicopters as she, her family and a dozen neighbors fled to a couple of condos that belonged to her mother's employer.
In 1990, he was named Pennsylvania's Teacher of the Year for his role as an eighth-grade English teacher and took on leadership positions in education committees.
Even most of the lowliest jobs in most state offices require an eighth-grade education, which many people lack.
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As a Kiwanis advisor to the Grambling State University Circle K Club, I guide the college students in tutoring and mentoring children in third through eighth grade.
"I just don't understand how you can possibly think that the Commodore 64 is a better machine than the Apple IIe, " I told my best friend in eighth grade.
But, you know, you're--from, you know, eighth grade, 1978, till 2005 when I'm 40 years old, you know, going to weddings and hearing "Whip It, " when I was on the practice football field hearing "Whip It" when I was in eighth grade.
"It's very upsetting, " said Alex Ragone, director of the middle and upper school at City and Country School in Manhattan, which runs through eighth grade.
Thanks to the actions of this Congress last year, we will soon have for the very first time a voluntary national test based on national standards in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math.
The average student enters KIPP two years below grade level in fifth grade, and leaves KIPP in eighth grade achieving at a ninth-grade level.
As in many districts this year, 20% of fourth- through eighth-grade teachers' evaluations will be based on an analysis of the change in students' test scores year-over-year.
Juvonen and her team recently followed more than 1, 800 students through seventh and eighth grade to determine how physical aggression and the spreading of rumors played a part in social prominence.
The eighth grade dropout, ex- boxer and World War II fighter pilot trainer started his career in Las Vegas with a land purchase in 1962.
Galli grew up in middle-class Pittsburgh, the son of a doting mother and a hard-nosed father with an eighth-grade education who still works most days at the junkyard he has owned for 50 years.
"With technology being what students need to learn in order to participate in a global world and economy, I'm not sure schools can forfeit the time to teach cursive, unfortunately, " said Paige French, an eighth-grade history teacher in Dallas, Texas.
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