Posts tagged Korea
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Morning bell: Raising student achievement without going overboard
Defending the Common Core: The co-chair of the Common Core State Standards Initiative says American students need to be held to higher standards if they’re going to compete with students from, among other places, South Korea. (NPR) Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: By bike or by boat
Ferry to work; Bikeshare and baseball; Costco gas station under fire again; Can Reeves boost Anacostia?; Turn off black boxes in cars?; Dead ball for soccer stadium?; Cyclists like protected bike lanes; How much for the White House?; Electric buses powered through pavement; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Slower or faster
Residents made traffic safer; Montgomery pushes Glenmont development; Retail doesn’t come to stations; Bad bank deals hurt transit agencies; House rejects transportation extremism; Should poorer kids get priority at charters?; Bike bits; And…. Keep reading…
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Two stores pursue divergent futures for grocery shopping
Will grocery shopping in the future look the same as it does today? Two stores are pursuing very different visions of changing shopping, from a large multinational helping people buy with smartphones to a small store abolishing wasteful packaging. International retail giant Tesco pioneered a system in Korea where they paste large, full-size posters of store shelves on the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Harebrained approaches to traffic
The right to drive distracted?; Debate tolls thoroughly! Now don’t!; Making transit more accessible; Talk long-term; Jaydriving worse than jaywalking; Buffett Northern Santa Fe; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: Bikes, trikes and automobiles
Bikes becoming fashionable in NYC; Arlington pushes trikes; Montgomery pushes cars; No eating unless you’re a cop; Lewis calls out the antis; What’s wrong with Franklin Square?; Rail should replace short flights; Short buildings equal job sprawl; Korea has “women-only” parking spaces; Bags for the City. Keep reading…