- August 21, 2008 • 8:46 am PDT
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
As states compete for $4 billion in federal Race to the Top dollars—dollars which will be awarded not only for clever reforms in the future but...
How do teachers think we should improve the American education system? Through clearer and more consistent academic standards across the country.

We've looked at the educational achievement and the median income of the entire nation. Is there any correlation?
At a town hall event, teachers were honest about how budget cuts make it harder to close the achievement gap.

No wonder people are so against the Affordable Care Act—they have no clue what's in it.

When the housing bubble burst, a lot of blacks and Latinos took a big hit that's left an extra-wide gulf between them and whites.

As India and other countries develop, they're trying to be more American and individualistic. But that's a big mistake.

Many of the foods we evolved to eat are contributing to our modern health problems. Should we be looking to our evolutionary past for answers?
Morning Roundup: From The New York Times: A Struggle to Educate the Severely Disabled School districts try to balance instruction in...
Every so often, radio captures what print cannot. Meet Sam, 18, who is one of the 65,000 illegal immigrants who graduated from an American high...
Ira Glass, featured in this month's GOOD magazine, is converting his amazing radio program into a TV show on Showtime. Here is a teaser.
The American shopping mall, that shrine to bland, homogeneous commercialism, seems to be an endangered species. As WorldChanging reports, malls...
The New York Times blog Economix put up an interesting post yesterday tracing the evolution of the term "welfare" from temporary help to those...
Over the weekend, Times architecture critic Nicolai Ousoussoff published an article talking about the need for cities to drastically reinvent...
Rick DeVos, an heir to the Amway fortune, has launched a new, $250,000 art prize called...the ArtPrize. This time, it won't be the rarefied...
During a decade when Americans returned to cities for the first time in 50 years, it surprises me that "urban" can still be a code word for...

American workers are putting in longer hours than ever, for even less pay.
Exactly one year ago today as I'm writing this, I was sitting in my home office, in my underwear, when my wife Regina burst through the door....
Last night's American Idol was a charity special, and despite the best attempts of the producers to make it unbearable, it was actually a moving...
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