From Governing: The future of Common Core is in doubt. In the reddest states—places like Alabama and Oklahoma—legislators are vowing to dismantle it entirely. In less staunchly conservative states (Indiana, Wisconsin),...
Read MoreFrom Pacific Standard – The Science of Society: Before the Great Recession, all cities hailed the financial district. Post-crisis, Bruce Katz and Brookings hail the innovation district as the driving logic of urban...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: The U.S. electorate isn’t entirely represented by the people in the U.S. who vote. Women are more likely to vote than men. Until the 2012 presidential election, whites were significantly more likely...
Read MoreFrom Sustainable Cities Collective – By Christopher Berggren: Urban street art has a rich history in both the culture and economics of the cities it is created. The concept of street art includes not only unsanctioned...
Read MoreFrom Governing: You’ve heard it a million times from elected officials, from people who want to be elected officials and from those who vote for elected officials: Government should be run like a business. This has become a...
Read MoreThere a new education website based in Memphis that launched Tuesday: Tennessee Chalkbeat. We got this email from education reporter Jackie Zubryzcki: “Happy New Year! Chalkbeat Tennessee is proud to announce the launch of...
Read MoreOur friends at Bluff City Education always provide a unique perspective on educational issues, and here’s Jon Alfuth’s recent post about vouchers: I work in a charter school, and unlike a teacher in a traditional...
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The creator of The Wire, David Simon, delivered an impromptu speech about the divide between rich and poor in America at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, and how capitalism has lost sight of its...
Read MoreFrom Sustainable Cities Collective: Louis Sullivan famously stated “Form follows function.” One of the main functions of a downtown building should be to be usable to the public. In Seattle, this is done through privately-owned...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: Cities change so fast that it can be hard take stock of the changes that really mattered. So we’ve asked a collection of professional city observers to do just that. Writers, urban planners, and local...
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