But 7th-grade science and social studies results fell short of state averages on the Illinois Goals Assessment Program test used since 1987, Smith reported.

Less than two-thirds of Porter County's seventh-graders passed the first seventh-grade science ISTEP-Plus, according to scores released Wednesday by the Indiana Department of Education.

When Susan McClarty’s district made the switch to open educational resources, the 6th and 7th grade science teacher at Centennial Middle School in Broken Arrow, Okla., initially struggled to ...