Posts tagged Education
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Your college doesn’t want your old bike. Give it to someone who does.
Get your diploma, abandon your bike. This spring ritual is almost as familiar on college campuses as Pomp and Circumstance. But you can do a lot of good by donating your bike rather than bailing on it. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hijackings and low points
Metrobus hijacking; Metro’s bad report; Fear of trains; Dethroning slumlords; Make way for the Purple Line; Defeating displacement; No urge to surge; Testing, testing; The new group house; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Derailed
A bad derailment; The battle over Westbard; Transit for Tobytown; Office oversupply; Reconsidering DC’s ‘burbs; Keeping the space in AdMo; Sidwell friends or enemies?; Young and ready to build. Keep reading…
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Interning in DC? Here’s how to find a place to live.
DC’s shortage of affordable housing options touches lots of permanent residents, but summer interns struggle with the problem as well. Below are three ways to find a place to stay when you’re only coming to DC for the semester. Keep reading…
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Watch our editor play ultimate and have fun with your fellow GGWash readers!
Jonathan Neeley isn’t just our editor. He’s also a top ultimate Frisbee player and a member of the DC Breeze, a team in the professional American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL). We’re going to their next home game, on Saturday, May 7 against New York. Join us! Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The votes are in
Maryland primary results; Abandoned to affordable; Parents behind bars; More people, same movement; Taxed enough already?; A tunnel to NoMa; Become a block parent; Closed for repairs. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: In short supply
Loudoun’s Silver Line plan; Sold in NoVa; Hope for Memorial Bridge; Metro sound bites; School funds; Build the Bay; The problem with office parks; Better, cheaper bike lanes. Keep reading…
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Schools are still segregated in Maryland, and state legislators want that to change
Studies have shown that while our country is becoming more ethnically diverse, our schools have become more segregated. In fact, studies by the Civil Rights Project have found that Maryland to be among the most-segregated state in the country for black students. A bill hoping to change that just passed through the Maryland state legislature. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dedicated Metro funding?
Dedicated funding now; No Metro sales tax; A cause for celebration?; Respect the bus driver; Architecture and aging; Build at Braddock?; Mixed-use to retail; The benefit of city colleges; More wealthy babies; Driver’s ed for everyone; And…. Keep reading…
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Tenleytown won’t get 50 units of housing and a park
50-100 people won’t be able to live in Tenleytown, and a major intersection won’t get a pocket park and become more walkable. That’s because DC’s Office of Planning and some local leaders got anxious about a mixed-use building from Georgetown Day School that’s shorter than another one across the street. Keep reading…