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District 25 Changes
Electives & Life Skills
STEM vs. Screens
Arts & Academics
Study Details
100
  • Clue: This Illinois school district wants to cut electives like cooking and sewing in favor of a new computer-based program.

What is Arlington Heights School District 25?

100

Clue: Family and consumer science classes that teach this skill help kids prepare food safely and independently.

  • What is cooking?
100

Clue: The new program in District 25 is supposed to focus on this four-letter group of subjects: science, technology, engineering, and math.

  • What is STEM?
100

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?

100

Clue: The study followed more than this many Florida students over a decade.

What is 30,000 students (or 31,322 students)?

200
  • Clue: Concerned parents in Arlington Heights are upset because they say kids don’t need more of this type of time.

What is screen time?

200

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?

200
  • Clue: This skill, which means writing instructions for a computer, is only one part of the Creative Learning Systems program.
  • What is coding?
200

Clue: The decade-long study found students with arts electives had higher GPAs, which stands for this.

What is grade point average?

200

Clue: The research was led by this George Mason University psychologist.

 Who is Adam Winsler?

300
  • Clue: Lori Reich created this type of online tool to protest the cuts to electives.

What is a petition?

300
  • Clue: A Purdue professor argues that cutting hands-on classes like cooking and sewing is this kind of decision, meaning not carefully thought through.

What is short-sighted?

300

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 are verbal or communication skills?
300
  • Clue: The study was published in this psychology journal that focuses on aesthetics, creativity, and the arts.

What is Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts?*

300

Clue: The students in the study were primarily from this income group.

  • What is low-income?
400
  • Clue: The new program for District 25 would be provided by this company based in Longmont, Colorado.
  • What is Creative Learning Systems?
400

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?

400

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?

400

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?

400

Clue: The researchers tracked students starting from this early age to measure school readiness and later achievement.

What is age four (or preschool)?

500

Clue: This official says the district is not just ending industrial tech classes but “transforming them” with more STEM.

Who is Superintendent Lori Bein?

500
  • Clue: One of the electives on the chopping block lets students shadow professionals, such as police officers and teachers, to learn about careers.

What is the career connections class?

500

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?

500

Clue: The researchers found that students who took arts electives were less likely to receive these disciplinary consequences at school.

What are suspensions?

500

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?