Marcia Bennett, M.Ed., a ninth-grade history teacher in Alexandria, Virginia, says the Pilot G2 pens are her No. 1 choice “because they’re easy to take notes with and write seamlessly.” ...

In the national discussion about lowering the high school dropout rate, the freshman year has emerged as a key area to focus on. We know that it’s important to make sure students transition from ...

ALBANY — Two school buses pulled up in front of the Occupy Albany encampment on Tuesday and disgorged a group of students eager to dispense worldly wisdom to the huddled masses. The students ...

Educators are increasingly focusing on the ninth grade as the year that determines whether a young person will move on or drop out of school. According to research published in the journal ...

How well students perform academically in ninth grade can predict their future success, according to a 2017 study from the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. The group looked at ...

The report doesn’t attempt to answer that question, but it notes that those rises have been coupled with other positive trends, such as higher 8th grade scores, ACT scores, improved student ...