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today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

Had the protest begun almost anywhere else in New York City, it almost certainly would have been shut down far sooner.
The New York Times' Economix blog featured a study out of Furman University, which shows that beginning in the 1960s, GPAs at national colleges...

Districts like Washington D.C. are changing their hiring practices to ensuring only the most talented applicants get in front of kids.

A Los Angeles museum charged the recent Natalie Portman-Ashton Kutcher film a fee to shoot under a famous public artwork by Chris Burden.

The special centennial book, featuring pieces from Stephen Colbert among others, will be left around New York for people to pick up and share.

Want to know what Obama is up to today? You're in luck. As of this week, the White House is making the President's public schedule available...
A recent piece from in Miller-McCune makes a case that a public school can do more than just educate its students: It also provides a possible...
You may know that flying on an airplane is exponentially worse for the environment than driving in your car. But, sometimes, you just have to get...
Artist Katherine Hubbard documents a year's worth of consumption.
Celebrated charter school founder Steve Barr likes to envision an education system where private schools are illegal. "What would happen if Bill...

The University of the South is cutting tuition and fees for 2011-12 by 10 percent. Can they set a trend of scaled back college costs?
In the midst of financial belt-tightening, public university presidents are letting their minds wander onto seemingly crazy notions: Yesterday we...
A huge new collection of Darwin's private papers, photographs, notebooks and sketches is now online. We browsed through the archive quickly...

Mozilla got 4,000 volunteers to provide data about when they used the "private browsing" feature to surf the 'net without leaving a trace. The...

A modest proposal to give us something we rarely get back in the digital age: our privacy.

Parents pay top dollar for private school tuition, but the posh existence they're buying may actually hurt American ingenuity.
A London investment house, Canopy Capital, has paid an undisclosed sum for the rights to the "services" of a million acres of untouched...

Texas might be getting the most innovative and practical electric car charging system in the United States. Surprise?

The national debate about what kinds of prisons we should have is in a sorry state.
We're holding our first event in the "GOOD Conversations" series tomorrow in New York. It's called "Mavericks of Education." We're going to sit...