What we've got here is a pretty satisfactory elementary performance ? better math and reading. The eighth-grade performance is much more mixed.

At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.

It is clear to me that the eighth elementary is going to have to happen.

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

I almost got kicked out of eighth grade for selling 'Playboy.'