Posts about Community
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Breakfast links: Higher (power, costs, buildings)
Pope likes transit (not gay marriage); Wait longer for College Park CaBi; Do height right; Working overtime; Population boom continues more quietly; Bad review for new map; Mixed uses stop crime. Keep reading…
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Morning bell: ... Unless it’s about race (or KIPP)
MoCo scores up, racial/ethnic gap too; NoVA Latino students facing ‘resegregating’ schools; Test scores rise at charters, drop in DCPS; Initial DCPS budget stirs opposition; KIPP seeks to build second DC high school; More on Mathematica’s KIPP report; A look at educational reform in New Orleans. Keep reading…
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How school tiers match up with Walk Score
One of the best effects of open data is when people correlate data sets from very different places to generate interesting information. This graph cleverly combines DC’s school quality tiers (known as “accountability categories”) with Walk Score: Keep reading…
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Is pre-K in DC working?
DC has made a major commitment to pre-kindergarten education. Are these programs improving kids’ performance in the rest of their education? Based on information available so far, we don’t know for sure. We do know that a pre-K program has to be high quality to make a difference, and some do better than others. In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed… Keep reading…
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The Metro map might soon look like this
WMATA has been rolling out information about what will happen once the Silver Line opens. One part: a new map. The agency posted a draft for comments on its MindMixer site. When the Silver Line joins with Orange and Blue, it will inevitably force some changes to the map. That’s because the current map has small station circles and thick lines, which works for two lines… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: War on the war on cars
Parking minimums are obsolete; Pay up, Maryland drivers; Townsend watch; Fairfax sneers at PG; Waterfront defended; Murals popular, except on the Hill; MoCo still very dangerous to walk; Air travel doesn’t break even, either; Candidates pull in money. Keep reading…
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Community of civic hackers for education takes shape
With so many school options, applications, and lotteries, there is a dire need for information that will help parents make the best choices for their children. Code for DC’s DC School Decisions project aims to use data and develop code that helps DC parents and students better navigate school lotteries and decisions. The two of us started the volunteer-run project in late… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ride and learn
Better understand the Silver Line; Gripes on the Metro; Transfer delays dissuade transit riders; Drive-by wounds 13 in NoMA; KIPP wants to build at Randall; Too many schools?; Washington isn’t richest; And…; And and…. Keep reading…
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Another great Capital Bikeshare visualization
Starting at 12:06, Greater Greater Washington contributor Veronica Davis, WABA head Shane Farthing, and Arlington bike planner Chris Eatough will talk about bicycling in DC on the Kojo Nnamdi Show. Listen live or catch the archived audio once it’s posted this afternoon. They also posted this video which visualizes a few days of Capital Bikeshare trips:… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Build it at a Metro station
FBI not near Metro?; Hospital at Largo?; WMATA has 11 more in mind; Less for transportation; It’s a “collision,” not an “accident,” in New York; FTC is pro-Uber; Urbanism isn’t new in SimCity; And…. Keep reading…