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• Culture

  Do You Read a Daily Newspaper? If So, Do You Prefer Online or a Hard Copy?

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• Culture

  

  Ten Years in 2 Minutes with 92 Magazine Covers

  A fun way to take stock of the last decade: ASME and MPA's "10 Years in 2 Minutes with 92 Magazine Covers" (video after the jump). We love...

  by Patrick James 1

• Culture

  

  The Conglomerization of Magazines

  Find out which magazine conglomerates are feeding your ideas about style, culture, and politics.

  by GOOD, KarlssonWilker +

• News

  

  Suing the State Over Crappy Education

  Only the ACLU would think of this: They have banded with parents and student of Palm Beach County and mounted a trailblazing class-action lawsuit,...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Education

  

  Testing School Design Before Anything Is Built

  Well this is pretty cool: A project in Birmingham is letting students and teachers test out school designs and then weigh in on the virtual...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

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  The Kids Are All Right

  Ten9Eight, a new documentary by Mary Mazzio, looks at how turning kids into budding businesspeople may be the antidote to the dropout...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Culture

  

  School Attacks in India Used to Generate Media Attention?

  Not sure if you've been following the news about the recent uptick in Maoist violence in India, where the rebels are still vying for communist...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Issue 012

  

  Project 012: Brainstorm

  Public education is part of our cultural heritage, and it's something we need to preserve. But it's up against some seemingly insurmountable...

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• Cities

  

  Which State Has the Worst School System?

  There's a lot of focus right now on innovation in education: how to support it nationally, how to find smart local solutions that can work at...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Education

  

  Schools not Troops?

  In case you missed it, Nicholas Kristof had an interesting piece about Afghanistan late last week where he posits that instead of a doomed-to-fail...

  by Siobhan O'Connor 1

• Technology

  

  Schools Can't Punish Your Cyberbully

  Maybe you've heard this story already, but here's the scenario: An eighth-grade girl in Beverly Hills had her life temporarily ruined by a female...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan +

• Education

  

  Outlawed: Snickers, Skittles, Soda

  If the successful lobbying by the beverage industry to stop in its tracks a tax on sodas is any indication of its power and influence, our first...

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks 1

• Issue 017

  

  The GOOD 100: KIPP Schools

  A Case Study Fewer than one in five students in the nation's low-income areas will attend college. But at KIPP charter schools, the inverse is...

  by GOOD 1

• Education

  

  How Can Protest Be Grassroots and Also Organized?

  March 4th's National Day of Action is hitting more than a few roadblocks. California was once considered one of the preeminent states in the...

  by Lillian R. Mongeau +

• Education

  

  Students in California Take to the Freeways

  Last night in Oakland, over 150 people protesting education budget cuts were arrested. Sebastian Beretvas, a 12-year-old who attends a local ...

  by Lillian R. Mongeau +

• Issue 017

  

  The GOOD 100: The Teacher Salary Project

  Spend and Deliver Everyone knows teachers aren't paid enough. But what we don't often think about is the effect of that meager paycheck....

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• Education

  

  Meatless Mondays

  In honor of our school lunch contest (a friendly reminder: you have until Sunday to submit your offering), we have food on the brain. And so,...

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks +

• Education

  

  Do Something: The Half Campaign

  How designers are helping to turn around struggling schools. Going to school is a right of passage, a common denominator in the experience of...

  by Widgets and Stone +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Final Salute

  Look at Final Salute, an incredibly moving photo essay about the funeral of a soldier Marine killed in Iraq. It's by Rocky Mountain News...

  by Anonymous +

• GOOD Blog

  

  The Little GDP that Could (and Finally Did)

  After four quarters of decline, the U.S. Gross Domestic Product finally saw a quarter of growth. The upswing from negative 6.4 percent to positive...

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