We're back in the swing of things, talking about upcoming and past events, a recent #StrongSchools campaign, our ongoing #InfrastructureCrisis conversation and book recommendations too.
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"There are simple things we could do to make this place great, and I think that’s what really fires me up."
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Join us on Tuesday, September 20 to chat about infrastructure spending in America.
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The challenge of improving the American public school system is enormous and complex. It's a conversation we need to keep having.
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Most teachers I know are amazing people, but the system they're working under doesn't always produce the best teachers to meet the needs of every kid. Here's a different approach.
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As part of our Strong Schools campaign, we asked readers to share photographs of your children's trip to school with the hashtag #SchoolCommute. Here is a selection of some of the best submissions we received.
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In college, the action—whether a campus job, the library, the cafeteria or all your best friends—was within a 10 minute walk of your house. There's no reason that experience has to be confined to a four-year period of life, no reason it has to cost tens of thousands of dollars in annual tuition to partake in.
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In this follow-up to his 2015 podcast interview, Steven Shultis shares his perspective on raising a family in a walkable neighborhood and choosing to send his kids to an urban school.
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There’s just no reason why a four-year college degree should cost anything like what it does. Here's a different model.
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This data shows that if you want a successful economy, you have to have a talented population.
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A new high school is heralded as a model of innovation, but it's part of a depressing trend in modern school planning: isolated facilities on the unwalkable fringe.
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In this podcast interview, Steve Shultis shares his perspective on raising a family in a walkable neighborhood and choosing to send his kids to an urban school.
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Like so much of our modern world, we seem to have boiled education down to a series of discrete inputs and outputs. This is convenient for making measurements, but I’m not convinced we have obtained any more wisdom about collectively raising productive, intelligent children in the last two centuries of public schools in the US than our distant ancestors.
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Here are 4 ways to make your neighborhood more kid-friendly.
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What if we shifted all transportation funding into the classroom? What if we ended the mandate for schools to provide transportation?
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7 steps to taking the leap and getting the most out of urban public schools.
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5 things I learned while teaching my kids to use public transit.
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Provo, UT is undertaking a grand experiment in suburbanizing a public high school. Here are 3 major problems with that plan.
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As a society, we are zealous when it comes to the safety of children. And rightfully so. Still, for some reason we find it perfectly acceptable to routinely include them in the most dangerous activity of American life: riding in a car.
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This week, we're inviting readers to join us for an open conversation with President of Strong Towns, Chuck Marohn on the topic of schools.
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