There is some good news but more not-so-good news in a pair of wide-ranging reports on how students across the U.S. are faring academically and civically this fall.

Associate superintendent of academics at Greenville County Schools (S.C.), McCoy oversees a multimillion-dollar annual budget while specializing in curriculum development, project management and software training.

"Parents are monitoring their kids far more closely, really wanting to be aware of their location [and] concerned about their safety," says Mitch Prinstein, chief science officer at the American Psychological Association." This heightened surveillance has trade-offs. The trend has seeped into schools.

How did you pick a college: the academics, the cost, the campus? For today's high schoolers, a new metric has entered the chat—how the college will look on TikTok.