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the green apples
Today is Election Day, and we’re talking about civic duty. If you haven’t already voted, finish reading & rush out to the polls. Being “builders of citizens,” as we discussed last week, has been the goal of traditional public school from the beginning. But school choice programs may challenge this role, begging the question, “Can private schools provide a civic education of equal quality?”
Last week, The Atlantic lambasted school choice policies for threatening the American tradition of “uniting communities” with public high schools. This week we examine this argument, what really unifies a place, and the job of schools in cities.
Halloween is around the corner, an often controversial holiday in schools. Whether families decide to dress their children up or watch scary movies is not really our concern, but the discussion DOES remind us of a set of interesting hypotheticals posed in the Florida Law Review by Steven G. Calabresi and Abe Salander. We’ve published several posts on discrimination and tolerance in schools, and today, we continue this theme from a new perspective.
The IPCC Report is the most significant warning about the effects of global warming in the past 20 years. It paints a dire picture of what will happen if the world gets 1.5 C degree hotter than it is now; a temperature that the IPCC tells us the world is on track to hit in 2040 if warnings are not heeded. The report suggests there are daily practices we could change individually, and the suggestions might surprise you.
Research shows that where children grow up significantly affects their future. But what if there was a way to look at neighborhoods & predict a child’s future? It sounds like a crystal ball, but researchers at Opportunity Insights are using big data to do just this. Today, we share this new map while also encouraging citizens to think about how to make all neighborhoods places with more opportunity for all children.
