Author: SCM

From Polis Blog: “Crowdsourced Moscow 2012: A Public Space Game” (above) was shown on Monday after a panel discussion with Adam Greenfield at the Strelka Institute. This was part of Social Media Week, a series of...

Here’s an article from Phi Delta Kappan for our new school board: By Allan Odden and Lawrence O. Picus, Phi Delta Kappan Education budgets are imploding at the fiscal seams. A sluggish economy and falling property values...

from Columbia Journalism Review: A Washington Post examination of how “peers” inflate CEO pay By Ryan Chittum Companies tend to try to pay their employees as little as possible without killing morale and suffering high turnover....

From Phi Delta Kappan: By Morgaen L. Donaldson and Susan Moore Johnson, Phi Delta Kappan Few observers doubt that Teach For America (TFA) has high aspirations. Established in 1990, TFA strives to close persistent racial and...

From Atlantic magazine: By Richard Florida Most of the commentary on America’s dismal economic outlook tends to focus on national statistics: an unemployment rate of over 9 percent and a flat jobs report for August. But by...

From Places: These are places we Americans know well: suburban and exurban neighborhoods, where gently curving streets are lined with single-family houses with driveways, multi-car garages, front lawns. We have been constructing...

From Education Week blogs: By Peter DeWitt “Don’t be so busy looking for problems that you forget to notice improvements.” Todd Whitaker. Turn on the television for a moment. Listen carefully to the...

From Education Week: By Catharine Hill Our educational system, historically a major engine for equal opportunity and a pathway to the American Dream, is under severe stress. Along with it, the working- and middle-class and...

From Sustainable Cities Collective: Riding high on the announcement of New York City’s bike-share program just a day earlier, NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan gave the keynote lecture at the...

From Slate: By Neil deMause|Posted Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, at 12:30 PM ET In that sense, sports expenditures should be looked at less as new economic activity than as spending that’s cannibalized from elsewhere in the local...