SXSW Film Review: Eighth Grade
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March 17, 2018 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf
Eighth Grade Screenings for Eighth Graders!
Bo Burnham's free screenings will highlight ridiculous rating
"...a night of free showings of his directorial debut Eighth Grade this Wednesday around the country – including in..."
Aug. 7, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Eighth Grade
Modern middle school life has never been captured better
"...us would rather forget. In the painfully astute dramedy Eighth Grade, 13-year-old Kayla Day (Fisher) is a child of..."
July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Bridge to Terabithia
This excellent screen version of the Newbery-winning novel is not about fairies and enchanted forests but about kids who feel as though they don't fit in.
"...is not a goblin king but a perfectly ordinary eighth-grade bully (Lauren Clinton) named Janice, and she demands a..."
Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
True Colors
"...screenplay by Kevin Wade (Working Girl) plays like an eighth-grade civics primer: ethics and morality are good, greed and..."
June 21, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Good Boys
Tweens up to no good? Yeah, it's a Rogen/Hill joint
"...stellar entries in the past few years (Lady Bird, Eighth Grade, Call Me by Your Name). And while Good..."
Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
What Follows Five Years of Failure at Mendez Middle School?
Making the grade
"...schools in the Austin Independent School District received failing grades. That designation for one such school, Rosedale, at 49th..."
Aug. 31, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders
Designed To Fail
As Pearce may face another repurposing, AISD gets excited about single-sex schools
"...under Principal Trana Allen, it held only seventh and eighth grades. Now Allen is gone, last year's students were..."
Nov. 18, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Austin Music Yearbook: Can You Name These Musicians?
"...Fourth grade, Kennedy School Hong Kong Backpack rapper – before that..."
Aug. 29, 2019 Photo Gallery
Slut in a Good Way
Charming sex-positive teen comedy is good old shameless fun
"...a renaissance these days. Call Me by Your Name, Eighth Grade, and Lady Bird have graced the screen in..."
March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Austin Film Critics Release 2018 Awards Nominee Lists
Roster includes new stunt and mo-cap categories
"...Here Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody Best Actress Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me? Olivia..."
Dec. 28, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
AISD Students Fare Well in NAEP Results
Austin fourth- and eighth-graders out-performed the nation in math and peer urban districts in reading
"...urban districts in reading, as measured by fourth- and eighth-grade scores on the standardized National Assessment of Educational Progress...."
Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
No Room at the Inn
Parents and educators discuss adding a sixth grade to the Kealing magnet.
"...Working Group also recommended that AISD add a sixth grade to the magnet program housed at Kealing Junior High,..."
Dec. 7, 2001 News Feature by Michael May
Should Texas Science Textbooks Cover Climate Change?
Kids are affected by it but can't learn about it
"...Former eighth-grade science teacher Geoff Carlisle taught his students in Austin..."
Nov. 3, 2023 News Feature by Emily Engelbart
Naked City
"...• AISD fourth- and eighth-grade students outscored most other large urban districts on the..."
Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature
Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2018's Best Films and More
If Beale Street Could Talk, The Favourite big winners
"...Best First Film: Eighth Grade (D: Bo Burnham)..."
Jan. 7, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Steve Davis’ Top 10 Films of 2018
"...1) Eighth Grade..."
Dec. 28, 2018 Screens Feature by Steve Davis
SB 1031: The new exams
"...In grades ninth through 12th, students will take "end-of-course" exams, a..."
June 29, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...Wimberley five years ago. Unfortunately for Smith and her eighth-grade son, Gary, the threat of violence appears to have..."
April 30, 1999 News Feature
Changing Course
AISD shifts to community-based model for prepping younger kids for college
"...run as a stripped-down campus housing only seventh and eighth graders while staff members were hired and trained for..."
Sept. 9, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Austin Schools Ask Parents When and How to Talk About Sex
Birds do it, bees do it, ISDs do it
"...topics are appropriate for K-8 students. For example: By eighth grade, students should be able to "explain the range..."
Dec. 14, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders
SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List
High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest
"...Hunter D: Jody Hill Jaden, a cool and confident sixth-grade boy, is supposed to be bonding with his father..."
Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
The Battle of Washington's Bulge
The textbook wars make a casualty of Washington Crossing the Delaware.
"...Texas students for the next several years. Among the eighth-grade American history textbooks considered for state adoption were Prentice..."
Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature by Michael King
'If Not Edison -- What?'
Austin Interfaith's Alliance programs represent one alternative to failing AISD schools.
"...says Doug Greco, an Alliance school organizer and ninth grade geography teacher at Johnston High School, which will hold..."
March 22, 2002 News Feature by Emily Pyle
The Austin Chronic: On Joint Rolling, Wonderment, and Turning 40
“Am I feeling anything yet?”
"...The question sent me time traveling: spring of 1998, eighth grade field trip to Dearborn, Mich., in the tiny..."
July 12, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin
Reefer Madness: Teens Still Smoke Pot
Would legalization lead to a decline?
"...annually to thousands of American teens, nearly 13% of eighth graders, 30% of 10th graders, and more than 36%..."
Dec. 27, 2013 News Column by Jordan Smith
The Good Eye: Boyhood, Girlhood, Personhood
Lorelei's girlhood in dad's Boyhood
"...your niece in Campus Open Carry. Look up that sixth-grade teacher who taught you evolution was just a hotly..."
Feb. 6, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry
Communication Breakdown
Rocked by financial crisis, AISD goes to war with itself – and everyone suffers
"...He said, "You could theoretically move someone from this grade level to that grade level, or from that class..."
April 15, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Task Force Recommendations
A look at an early draft proposal
"...Elementary and Middle Schools: Options include sending all sixth graders to middle school or splitting schools into prekindergarten through..."
Feb. 18, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...outperforming the rest of the country in fourth- and eighth-grade math, and fourth-grade reading, and performing slightly below average..."
