Posts about Links
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Breakfast links: Transit trials
Plans for BRT; Study first; Should busking be allowed?; Less transit regulation?; Faster transit projects; A city without slums; A better bus stop; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What we learned about bicycling
Milloy rides; “We don’t ticket our own”; Transformation and affordability; Inner Harbor 3.0; One step closer to ridesharing; Designing for mental health; Vancouver’s baby boom; DIY toll road; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning bell: Back to Latin at some schools, onward to technology at others
Latin and literacy: Some educators, including a few in DC, are advocating spoken Latin as a remedy for literacy problems, including those among low-income and special-education students. At School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens, Latin begins in preschool. (Post) Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Housing progress or failure?
Halfway to affordable housing goal; Luxury over affordability; Pot enforcement highest in SE; No LOS in California; Bike lanes free up sidewalks; Who commutes by bike?; Bored at BWI? Go bike!; How Singapore seniors cross the road; Chocobo-oriented development?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Deals with Uber and Lyft
VA and MD rule on Uber and Lyft; Meanwhile, rules wait in DC; Give your input for Courthouse Square; Forbes says DC is coolest metro; Architect criticizes DC skyline; Buses in Bowie; Boathouse paddles along; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning bell: Changes ahead
What Common Core means in practice: On the Kojo Nnamdi show, two local educators discuss how the new Common Core State Standards will change the way teachers teach. (WAMU) Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Streetcars on a roll
Streetcars live; Mayor for life fined; Candle mural too religious?; Catania files ballot petition; Traffic camera comes home; City staffer in restaurant tiff; Trolley Trail section completed; A better electric bike; Keeping gentrification positive; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning Bell: Summer programs combine fun and work to prevent academic backsliding
How their garden grows: Low-income children in one Northeast DC neighborhood are having fun growing and cooking vegetables. But they’re also getting tutoring in reading and math to keep them from falling behind academically over the summer. (Post) Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Slow change
Mayoral meddling; A “pop-up” pause; The future of Tysons; Teaching parents; Litter enforcement; Purple line procurement; Poverty and pedestrian deaths; Meaningless buttons; And…. Keep reading…
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Morning bell: One DC charter school educates two generations simultaneously
Mother and child education: One DC charter school educates both young children and their parents, many of whom are learning English. It’s a promising model that has also been tried elsewhere around the country. (Post) Keep reading…