District 25 Changes
What is Arlington Heights School District 25?
Clue: Family and consumer science classes that teach this skill help kids prepare food safely and independently.
Clue: The new program in District 25 is supposed to focus on this four-letter group of subjects: science, technology, engineering, and math.
Clue: According to the second article, middle schoolers who take classes in music, theater, dance, or visual arts tend to score higher on tests in reading and math.
What are standardized tests?
Clue: The study followed more than this many Florida students over a decade.
What is 30,000 students (or 31,322 students)?
What is screen time?
Clue: In addition to cooking, this hands-on skill taught in middle school helps students repair and create clothing and fabric items.
What is sewing?
Clue: The decade-long study found students with arts electives had higher GPAs, which stands for this.
What is grade point average?
Clue: The research was led by this George Mason University psychologist.
Who is Adam Winsler?
What is a petition?
What is short-sighted?
Clue: Parents worry that replacing hands-on classes with computer-based ones will limit opportunities to practice these skills, like speaking clearly and interacting face-to-face.
What is Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts?*
Clue: The students in the study were primarily from this income group.
Clue: These classes teach life skills such as preparing healthy meals, managing a personal budget, and caring for children. What elective am I?
What are family and consumer sciences classes?
Clue: The new program will also include classes like communication, media arts, and this type of visual technology that involves creating images on a screen.
What is graphic design?
Clue: The researchers say access to arts education is an issue of this, a term that means fairness for all groups of people.
What is social justice?
Clue: The researchers tracked students starting from this early age to measure school readiness and later achievement.
What is age four (or preschool)?
Clue: This official says the district is not just ending industrial tech classes but “transforming them” with more STEM.
Who is Superintendent Lori Bein?
What is the career connections class?
Clue: Carol R. Werhan argues that not every student will have a job in these four STEM fields. Name two of them.
What are any two of the following: science, technology, engineering, or math?
Clue: The researchers found that students who took arts electives were less likely to receive these disciplinary consequences at school.
What are suspensions?
Clue: The data came from this specific project that followed children’s progress from kindergarten through eighth grade.
What is the Miami School Readiness Project?