From Atlantic Cities: More than one-third of adults in the U.S. have not walked for more than 10 minutes straight over the course of the last week. People typically walk about 3 miles per hour, so a 10-minute walk covers just...
Read MoreFrom Fast Company: More than 5 billion travelers passed through the airports of the world in 2011, according to Airports Council International. That’s an incredible number, considering the population of the entire planet is...
Read MoreFrom Mother Jones: STANDARDIZED TESTS may not tell us everything there is to know about a school like Mission High, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have their uses. And one of those uses is myth busting—in...
Read MoreFrom Think Progress: Schools with predominately minority student populations receive far less funding than schools with mostly white students thanks to a loophole in federal school funding laws, according to a report from the...
Read MoreFrom Governing: A new report finds that the Camden, N.J., schools are failing to educate students and must make substantial changes or face state intervention. It is tragically familiar story, but the threatened response raises...
Read MoreFrom The New Republic: THE GOP IS supposed to pretend that its 2012 strategy doesn’t include the systematic disenfranchisement of lower-income blacks and Latinos. But in June, Mike Turzai, Republican majority leader of the...
Read MoreFrom CNN: By Diane Ravitch Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University. Appointed by President Clinton, she served seven years on the National Assessment Governing Board which supervises the NAEP...
Read MoreFrom Citiwire: The concept of historic preservation has finally penetrated the national conversation over so-called “shrinking cities.” Sort of. At last month’s Reclaiming Vacant Properties” conference in New Orleans, sponsored...
Read MoreFrom Better Cities and Towns: By Steve Mouzon, Better! Cities & Towns Walk Appeal promises to be a major new tool for understanding and building walkable places, and it explains several things that were heretofore either...
Read MoreFrom bcg.perspectives: Move aside, U.S. baby boomers. The Millennial generation is bigger than you and growing in influence. (See Exhibit 1.) Now numbering 79 million (compared with the boomers’ 76 million), U.S....
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