Beginning this fall, the Philadelphia School District is shifting its high school start times to a mostly universal 9 a.m., reflecting a national movement to improve academic outcomes by allowing teens more sleep.
Preparing students for constructive, committed, informed engagement in our democracy is the most important moral imperative facing school administrators today.
Educators must embed mental health into every aspect of the school day to meet student social-emotional needs that have been intensified by the pandemic.
Forcing schools to publish every detail of their curriculums online is most likely to smother instruction and demoralize teachers, superintendents say.
