Mitch Hurst

Even before the pandemic, rates of depression among teens were rising. Studies show those rates have gone up even faster since, with more high school students reporting feelings of sadness and thoughts of suicide. A number of factors have been attributed to the increase, including the isolation during COVID-19, stress about academic performance, competitiveness in

A daunting academic challenge for high school juniors—the SAT test—is undergoing some important changes. The College Board, the nonprofit that owns the SAT, is converting the test to a digital format. The test is also undergoing some structural changes that have significant implications for how students will prepare for and take the test. We caught

IN 1976, poet Alice Judson Hayes founded the Ragdale Foundation, a nonprofit artists’ community that provides a peaceful place for artists to work. The foundation was established on the grounds of the Ragdale estate in Lake Forest, built by Hayes’s grandfather and noted Chicago Architect Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1897. Hayes passed away in

Steve Robnick is a self-professed plant nerd, which might have something to do with why he (eventually) became a middle-school science teacher. Robnick studied botany at Miami University in Ohio but took a winding road on his way to a career in education. After a short stint working for a logistics company in Chicago, he