Sometimes simple things can be the most impactful. So it is with Eighth Grade, a small story of a young girl during her last week before she graduates and goes off to high school, which manages to ...

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Discover newcomer Elsie Fisher in, like, a totally spot-on, you know, portrait of Millennial angst and stuff, from first-time director Bo Burnham. No one likes eighth grade. It’s the compulsory ...

Algebra has long been a fundamental part of any high school math curriculum. In many places it's become a fundamental part of the middle school math curriculum, too. In recent years, more students ...

I’ve been talking and thinking about this fun-to-decode, impossible-to-forget gift from the cinema gods since I saw it at Sundance in January. Now Eighth Grade is going into wide release – and no ...

U.S. 4th and 8th grade students are performing worse in math, and somewhat worse in reading, than they were two years ago, according to new data from a national test. The results were a surprise to ...

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The pandemic has smacked American students back to the last century in math and reading achievement, according to the tests known as the Nation’s Report Card. Results for students who took the test in ...

Newcomer Elsie Fisher offers a breakout performance as a shy adolescent with a miniscule number of subscribers for her peppy YouTube channel in 'Eighth Grade,' a coming-of-comedy written and directed ...