Posts tagged Education
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Breakfast links: New density for Fairfax
Fairfax zoning fight; New heights for Reston; A library or housing?; Less boring in Loudoun; New design, longer walk; More free Metro; Welcome to Metro; Gentrification hits Cleveland. Keep reading…
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A Fairfax City community center could become George Mason student housing
A small community center across from George Mason’s Fairfax Campus is up for redevelopment, and Fairfax City is weighing options for what to do with it. One possibility is to make it student housing, a move that could help bring the school and its surrounding community together. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Keep it moving
How was the commute?; Think of the children; Coin compromise; Rockville Pike plans; Metro match up; Hottest ‘hoods; To buy or not to buy; Heads up. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full speed ahead
Ready or not, here comes SafeTrack; SafeTrack set in stone; DC on SafeTrack; The surge stays; Stadium spoils; Top 40 urban planners under 40; The region’s favorite neighborhood; Civic technology for the future. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Fewer in the force
Police part with DC; Fewer black cops; Courts on Brookland density; DC’s most dangerous intersections; MoCo hikes property taxes; Sports facility for more housing; Subways show their age. Keep reading…
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Gentrification isn’t the only reason DC’s test scores are rising
Student performance in the nation’s capital has increased so dramatically that it has attracted significant attention and prompted many to ask whether gentrification, rather than an improvement in school quality, is behind the higher scores. Demographic change explains some of the increases in test scores, but by no means all of them. We drew this conclusion after… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A different track
ICYMI; Bring on the buses; Homeless families on the rise; Car2go2more places; From retail to residence; Tall Oaks short on retail; Make the grade; Gaithersburg, the most diverse city; Traffic nightmare or hidden art?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Be safe or shut down
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Breakfast links: Stuck on track work
Troubled track work; People are riding less; School daze in DC; A MARC alternative to Metro?; A tragic crash and its day in court; The bikeway goes green; Across the river, the Red House; Highlights of NYC’s Lowline; SafeTrack hack. Keep reading…
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It’s another delay for 200+ units of housing in Tenleytown
First, Georgetown Day School took 3 floors and 50 units of housing away from its proposed development in Tenleytown, following opposition from neighbors and the DC Office of Planning. Now, it has to delay the entire project because of a zoning technicality. Keep reading…