Welcome to Citiwire.net! While popular attention focuses on the No Child Left Behind Act, another vehicle for significant educational improvement — the community schools movement — is continuing to make quiet but significant progress across the U.S. That’s my column for the week. … Ed McMahon notes the wrongheadedness of congressional efforts to terminate federal aid for bicycling, while retaining it for automobiles.
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- Density Without High-Rises? (16)
Neal Peirce: Readers will find an interesting pick up by Richard Florida on Ed McMahon’s article — on...
Anthony Harvath: Mr. McMahon is correct that “city” densities can be achieved without high rises. But just try it....
Eric Panzer: I think that it is nearly always a mistake to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach. I think there are...
- Urban U.S.A. Remade: A ‘Grand Inversion’? (7)
Charlie Doggett: Great article! This inversion has definitely started in Nashville. One thing that concerns me as an...
Ellen McCarthy: Karen Schoen - You’re kidding, right? Young people want to live in cities because cities are...
Karen Schoen: Students are being guided out of cars and forced into urban planned developments from the phony green...
- Making the Case: America’s Regions on the Rise (7)
Karen Schoen: Regionalism as promoted in the communist manifesto and also in UN Agenda 21. Regionalism is necessary...
- Communities Setting Audacious ‘Cradle to Career’ Education Goals (1)
Ken Wood: “Then they’re sets of markers such as an improvement of 6th grade reading proficiency from 61...
- Why Nations (and Regions) Fail (2)
Darrell Marcy: Hi Bill, I can’t believe it. A few weeks before your column I saw this book in our public...
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Lauren Dyson: This is a great overview of some of the major success stories about tech for civic engagement in US...
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