Posts tagged Education
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DC may tighten school graduation requirements
The DC State Board of Education this summer released a proposal to update graduation requirements for DC public school students. Many of the proposed changes have merit. Others seem overly prescriptive and raise some questions which the board does not explain in its report. The proposal is the culmination of a year of intense behind-the-scenes work and public meetings by the… Keep reading…
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Georgetown eyes satellite campus at White Oak
Georgetown University needs space to grow. Montgomery County needs a university to anchor a research and development center they want to create in White Oak. There’s a college campus for sale in the neighborhood that can satisfy them both. Jonathan O’Connell reports that Georgetown is interested in buying the National Labor College, a 47-acre campus at New Hampshire… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Public or private?
A new path for charters; Library group hurting libraries?; The eGoofacehoople Arts Transit Authority; 711 more solar panels; Pay DC more hotel money; The missing money; See money from space; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Under control
Cameras watch cameras; Metro making strides; No to resident-only parking; Frederick boosts sprawl; Transit vs. design?; Blazing a new trail; Fast enough?; And…. Keep reading…
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Ask GGW: What age is okay for kids to ride Metro alone?
Reader E.G. wrote in with this question: “As a thirteen year old in a suburb of DC, how do I convince my mom to let me ride the Metro alone?” A few years ago, New York journalist Lenore Skenazy let her 9-year-old son ride alone on the New York subway. She felt he was mature enough to handle it and that he was actually pretty safe. Many accused her of being a bad parent, while… Keep reading…
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Students: Don’t listen to the Hoya, vote in DC
Yesterday, the Georgetown Hoya student newspaper published a provocative editorial calling on students to not vote in DC, and rather vote absentee in their home states. That’s terrible advice. The reasoning behind the piece was that with DC disenfranchised in Congress and its 3 electoral votes guaranteed for Obama, students would “get more bang from their ballot”… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Uncertain developments
Transit center further delayed; MLB forbids paying for late Metro?; Bikeshare-athlon; Groceries for U Street; The school spot shuffle; Fake bus stops for the disoriented; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Too conventional?
Gray misses statehood talk; Democrats quiet on transit; DC feeling the heat; Even hotter?; Let the best rise?; MPD folds special unit; And…. Keep reading…
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Could Capital Strollershare work?
We now have public systems to share bicycles. What about strollers? Tanya Snyder suggests a “stroller-share” system at Streetsblog. She points out that as soon as children get too large to carry long distances, parents simply can’t take their kids on a trip around the city on foot or using transit without a stroller. A stroller makes the bus or train a viable… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Delayed service
More streetcars, maybe late; Can you hear me now?; Golf course to buildings?; The man who’d fix Southwest; Safer than that; @Bikeshare gets 5 stars; NY (heart) biking; And…. Keep reading…