Posts from August 2014
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Breakfast links: What we learned about bicycling
Milloy rides; “We don’t ticket our own”; Transformation and affordability; Inner Harbor 3.0; One step closer to ridesharing; Designing for mental health; Vancouver’s baby boom; DIY toll road; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning bell: Back to Latin at some schools, onward to technology at others
Latin and literacy: Some educators, including a few in DC, are advocating spoken Latin as a remedy for literacy problems, including those among low-income and special-education students. At School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens, Latin begins in preschool. (Post) Keep reading…
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Blue, green, orange, red, and yellow in the Flickr pool
Here are our favorite new images from the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool, showcasing the best and worst of the Washington region. Keep reading…
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Metro locks out an entire College Park neighborhood
Metro’s aggressive rebuilding program sometimes means riders must use bus shuttles to travel to and from closed stations. But when Metro closes Greenbelt station, the work blocks access to the shuttles from an entire neighborhood. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Housing progress or failure?
Halfway to affordable housing goal; Luxury over affordability; Pot enforcement highest in SE; No LOS in California; Bike lanes free up sidewalks; Who commutes by bike?; Bored at BWI? Go bike!; How Singapore seniors cross the road; Chocobo-oriented development?; And…. Keep reading…
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Build protected transit lanes using cycletrack bollards
Simple plastic bollards and slight changes to lanes are enough to turn a regular bike lane into a cycletrack. Could the same trick work for bus lanes? Keep reading…
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Ask GGW: Why no Silver Line lights?
Reader (and contributor) Bradley Heard wants to know why Silver Line trains don’t have silver lights in their destination signs like other lines do. Why is that? Keep reading…
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The promise, and the limits, of tutoring
Tutoring can be an effective way to bring a struggling reader up to grade level. But, as I discovered when I volunteered with one highly regarded tutoring program, it isn’t always easy. And it may not be the whole solution to a problem that is at the root of the achievement gap. If a child isn’t reading on grade level by 3rd grade, chances are she’ll never catch up. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Deals with Uber and Lyft
VA and MD rule on Uber and Lyft; Meanwhile, rules wait in DC; Give your input for Courthouse Square; Forbes says DC is coolest metro; Architect criticizes DC skyline; Buses in Bowie; Boathouse paddles along; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning bell: Changes ahead
What Common Core means in practice: On the Kojo Nnamdi show, two local educators discuss how the new Common Core State Standards will change the way teachers teach. (WAMU) Keep reading…