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• Education

  

  A City Education: Going Back to Basics Is Key to Achievement

  A City Year Los Angeles corps member discusses the importance of going back to basics with struggling readers.

  by Liz Warden +

• Education

  

  Why Is It So Hard To Put Imagination Back Into Schools?

  A national "Imagination Summit" wants to help schools figure out how to bring creativity and innovation to the classroom. Is it really that difficult?

  by Liz Dwyer +

• Education

  

  Taking Education Back to the Old School

  This week, on The New York Times Opinionator blog, Stanley Fish, a professor of humanities and law at Florida International University, waxed...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan 1

• Education

  

  Education: Morning Roundup, Back to School

  Morning Roundup: From NPR: Parents Push For Diversity In New Orleans' Schools The New Orleans school system has been almost completely remade...

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks +

• Environment

  

  Bundy to Concord: Ban Bottled Water, We've Got Your Back

  As we've mentioned, the town of Concord, Massachusetts, recently passed a ban on bottled water, but they're getting some static from the...

  by Andrew Price 1

• Education

  

  Education: Morning Roundup, Back to School Blues

  Morning Roundup: From The New York Times: Drive to Overhaul Low-Performing Schools Delayed Negotiations among federal, state and local...

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks 2

• Environment

  

  Should We Follow the Dutch and Give Land Back to the Flooding Mississippi River?

  Rather than battle rivers with expensive dikes and levees and canals, the Dutch give them more room to flow freely. Maybe we could learn from them.

  by Ben Jervey +

• Environment

  

  Deepwater Drilling: We're Only Going to Do More of It

  Given that the practice of deepwater oil drilling is reponsible for this growing environmental disaster of unknown (but certainly catastrophic)...

  by Andrew Price +

• Education

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor Is Bringing Civics Back to School

  According to former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, only a third of Americans can name one of the three branches of the federal...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan 1

• GOOD Blog

  

  Go Back And Get Your Engineering Degree

  A new survey of recent college graduates found that liberal arts degrees aren't the best way to invest your tuition dollars. Instead, try...

  by Anonymous +

• News

  

  The Year in Rights: Where We Advanced and Where We Fell Back in 2011

  A look at the state of our rights across the States—and beyond.

  by Ann Friedman +

• Education

  

  Defunding Americorps: Do We Really Want to Take City Year Away From Schools?

  The Republican leadership claims the dropout prevention program is wasteful spending. Have they ever spent time with City Year corps members?

  by Liz Dwyer +

• Education

  

  Why We Should Make It Easier for High School Grads to Take a "Gap Year"

  When students take a year off before college to gain real-world experience, everyone wins.

  by Liz Dwyer +

• Lifestyle

  

  Angry About Bad School Lunches? You Can Go Help

  FoodCorps, a new offshoot of AmeriCorps, is putting boots on the ground to fix American's school lunches. Sign up now.

  by Cecily Upton +

• Education

  

  Back-to-School: Make an Impact

  The debate team at W. E. B. Du Bois High School in Detroit was pretty much nonexistent. They needed file folders to organize their cases. They...

  by Jessica Rauch 1

• Cities

  

  It's Time for GOOD LA Summer Break. We'll Be Back Soon!

  GOOD LA is taking vacation.

  by GOOD +

• Education

  

  Will School Libraries Go Book-less?

  Last September, a Massachusetts prep school called Cushing Academy announced that it'd be giving away thousands of books from its library and...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan +

• Education

  

  Superb Idea: Hire Teachers for Public Schools the Way We Hire Them for Private Schools

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

  by Liz Dwyer +

• Education

  

  Should Schools Hold Back Struggling Readers Based on a Single Standardized Test?

  Under a new plan in Indiana, third graders who fail a reading test will be held back. But there aren't any new resources to actually teach them.

  by Liz Dwyer +

• Technology

  

  Why I Dumped My iPhone—And I'm Not Going Back

  I was glued to my phone, until I realized it was making my life easier, not better.

  by Sam Graham-Felsen +