Nearly 1,800 current and former educators ran for state legislative seats. Among many others, winners include Tony Evers, Wisconsin's next governor and the state's current superintendent of public instruction.

"It's important if we the people are going to run our government, that we know what it is, how it works, and how we can participate in it," Gorsuch said as part of Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Gorsuch's work promoting civic education.

Personalized pacing has great value, but adapting it for the classroom brings up the age-old tension in education—we have a certain amount of work to do, and only a certain amount of time in which to do it. Personalized pacing also runs the risk of reducing education to a checklist of items to complete.

The Texas district's voters approved a $138.7 million construction bond request by a wide margin. The bond will cover three new Abilene ISD elementary buildings.