There is one hack every educator can use—regardless of subject or class size—to improve the status quo: increase school-home communication.

Three months into its post-collegiate life, the future of the vacated Iowa Wesleyan University campus is starting to take shape, with the Mount Pleasant Community School District offering to buy a portion of the 60-acre property for $1.25 million.

State education officials have told superintendents that college-level AP Psychology can only be taught if content covering sexual orientation and gender identity is excluded.

"Paper records, stored in one location, in a non-environmentally controlled warehouse, for instance, are much more at risk than digital records secured by digital passwords," K12 technology leader Beverly Miller says.