Wilson developed a formula based on his eighth-grade students' preferences.
Today's test results represent a cross-section of all eighth-grade students in a state.
As an eighth-grade student he once scored 59 points against another high school's junior varsity team.
By contrast, 76 percent of eighth-grade students in a program for high achievers were white.
Among eighth-grade students, experimentation with heroin dropped, to 2.1 percent from 2.4 last year.
This assessment was given earlier this year to fourth- and eighth-grade students across the country.
All eighth-grade students in Japan have taken or are taking algebra.
Seventh and eighth-grade students study band or chorus for the entire academic year.
On average, each eighth-grade student had spent two weeks writing 77 words.
In science, American eighth-grade students scored 534 compared with an international average of 516.
