Efforts to improve the academic performance of ninth-graders drove large improvements in graduation rates three years later in a diverse set of 20 Chicago public high schools, according to a report ...

A ninth-grade ethnic studies class has a remarkably prolonged and strong positive impact on students, increasing their overall engagement in school, probability of graduating and likelihood of ...

Ninth grade can be a tricky time. Along with starting over as the youngest kids in school, navigating new social situations, and juggling extracurricular activities, high-school freshmen often ...

The Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education will vote Wednesday on whether to add ninth grade to Roosevelt Middle School, a move district officials say could ease students' transition to high ...

Some depressing data for Equal Pay Day: By ninth grade, there’s already a gender gap in math. Girls comprise just 30% of the top 5,000 ninth graders in the American Mathematics Competitions, just 18% ...

The Reading School District will give its incoming ninth graders access to the new Reading High School Innovation Academy next school year through a rotating seminar program. The updated plan was ...

Want to help your ninth-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. For high school students, math skills and understandings are organized not by ...

For Central High School student Drew Brooks, eighth grade was a manageable year. Then he entered ninth grade and his academic life changed, he said. “In eighth grade, I really didn’t study at all,” he ...

Politicians have changed the ninth-grade exam, and it could hurt boys, who already lag behind girls in average grades.