Jump On It Organizer NOOK Turner’s 30-Year Fight to Preserve Eastside Black Culture

Rapper / promoter / activist goes long on his annual “Black Culture 360” event

"...moved back to the Eastside when he was in eighth grade. While attending Reagan (now Northeast Early College) High..."

May 30, 2025 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Educators Hate It, So Why Is Texas Keeping the STAAR Test Alive?

Behind efforts to eliminate the state test that stresses kids out and shuts schools down

"...“My son, when he was in second grade at Becker Elementary, was doing a STAAR practice test..."

May 23, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Common Law

The TikTok ban that wasn’t

"...I’m in eighth grade and my friends and I are on TikTok..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Column by Luke Ellis

Texas Lege Preview: Another Barrage on LGBTQIA+ Texans

“Cruelty tactics” begin again

"...or gender identity to students from kindergarten through the eighth grade. Other anti-queer bills centered around schools include book..."

Jan. 10, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, November 29 - December 5

"...as a newscaster or deejay on the radio. In eighth grade, my science teacher admired my work and urged..."

Nov. 29, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Qmmunity: Regret Posting

Editor James reflects on his middle-school regrets and how they relate to today

"...a yarn handcuff. (If you know, you know.) Then eighth grade rolled around, and I started to get more..."

Nov. 8, 2024 Column by James Scott

Texas to Execute Father Accused of Murdering Child Despite Innocence Argument

Will Gov. Abbott allow Robert Roberson to be put to death?

"...regarded as learning disabled, and left school after the eighth grade. He spoke awkwardly and, according to his present..."

Sept. 27, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Matilda, The Matrix, and Mixers in This Week’s Recommended Events

Get nerdy, brooding, and out there with these suggestions

"...on the outside because they could read at an eighth grade level in fifth grade; a testament to Danny..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

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

Under New TEA Requirements, Austin ISD Meetings Are Flying By

50% of meeting time must be focused on student outcomes

"...to special education students and students in sixth through eighth grades, leaving only the state-mandated goals concerning third-grade literacy..."

Dec. 15, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...12 years old, which makes total sense given the seventh-grade wit and hubris of this beloved Austin concoctor. True..."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

Austin's Five Light Rail Options

From the front-runner plans to the also-rans, here's what could be

"...benefit also presents the challenge of needing to create grade separation from the Red Line – the two lines..."

April 7, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Public Notice: We Have Seen the Future, and ...

Deconstructing Project Connect’s new vision for light rail

"...would have a raised bridge and elevated stations from Eighth Street to Auditorium Shores; the others would remain at..."

March 24, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

The Luv Doc: Private School

Fueled by a heady blood rush of Dunning-Kruger hubris

"...private school. My husband went to private school through eighth grade and is insisting that we send him to..."

March 3, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Texas Lege Preview: Homophobic Holdout

Democrats try to remove anti-gay laws; Republicans don't want kids to be trans

"...on sexual orientation or gender identity to students through eighth grade. His other no-trust-me-I'm-straight bill would define most spaces..."

Jan. 13, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Producer Christian Herrera Is Building a Hub for Austin Hip-Hop

Elevate studio expands into South Austin multiuse creative space

"...aka local producer the Mask – was in seventh grade, he had no interest in music. With his family..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Music Feature by Clara Wang

Post-Pandemic, Can Schools Make Sex Education Work?

Tackling difficult subjects in Texas schools

"...sex ed curriculum because their lessons abruptly stopped in eighth grade, during the pandemic. She recalls that most of..."

Aug. 12, 2022 News Feature by Madi Donham

Jenna Yoon Is on the Hunt for Lia Park and the Missing Jewel

Austin author Jenna Yoon hopes to bring more diversity to YA fantasy with her debut novel

"...Jenna Yoon stopped writing when she was in third grade. Any hopes she'd had of becoming an author were..."

July 15, 2022 Arts Feature by Kaushiki Roy

Diggin' Way Down Into Life With Carolyn Wonderland & A. Whitney Brown

For Valentine's Day, we bring you a snapshot of life at home with a blues musician and her comedy writer husband

"...mid-Michigan, Brown says he was arrested for robbery in eighth grade, sent to a boys training school, and his..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Amid COVID Chaos, STAAR Scores Take Dive

Number of students taking standardized tests also drops

"...According to state numbers, a total of 5,043 AISD eighth-grade students took the STAAR reading test in 2019. This..."

July 2, 2021 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

hellsite.austin.gov

Everything needs to be online now. Austin is a world-renowned tech capital. Why can’t the city get it right?

"...a college reading level, instead of at the maximum eighth-grade reading level recommended by federal guidelines...."

June 11, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Beyond the Horizon with Denny Freeman

Austin lodestar offered the theories of life through a guitar

"...semi-stone room on the corner of Red River and Eighth. Not much of a room size-wise, but it created..."

April 27, 2021 Music Post by Bill Bentley

At the Ready Gets in the Uniform Boots of Texas’ High School Cops

Sundance title comes to AFS's drive-in screen

"...experience when she took a hunter safety class in eighth grade. She said, "It's crazy that they're learning how..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Local K-12 Educators Look at Ways to Start the School Year as COVID-19 Looms

Put on your thinking cap

"...Carlisle plans hands­-on lessons for his newest class of eighth-grade emerging scientists. Usually, the KIPP Austin College Prep teacher..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature by Aaricka Washington

Summer Break Theatre's COVID-Era Comedy

Area educators deliver a timely lesson in their original work Going the Distance

"...from Summer Break Theatre focuses on a crew of eighth-grade educators at a fictitious Texas middle school, who are..."

July 24, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

AISD Hears Loud and Clear: No Cops in Schools

Austinites call for schools to defund its police, too

"...district police officer got into a scuffle with an eighth-grade student who was removed from class for disruptive behavior...."

July 3, 2020 News Feature by Aaricka Washington

Austin Family & Kids' Activities in the Time of Coronavirus

Get creative and cure cabin fever

"...A contest for young men of color grades 3-12 in Travis, Williamson and Hays counties. Winners from..."

March 16, 2020 Events Post by Kat McNevins

More Money, More Options for I-35

The decades-long plan to rebuild Interstate 35 through the heart of Austin is picking up speed

"...new I-35 – already slated to be lowered below grade through Downtown – less of a scar and barrier..."

March 6, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Zach Theatre's A Night With Janis Joplin

This re-created rock concert with the legendary singer is so good, it may be better than the real thing

"...nonexistent. Janis recites details from her life like an eighth-grade book report. The depression and addiction that led to..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

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