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Rebranding the Food Movement to Broaden Its Appeal
A health food corner store in Atlanta eschews the local food movement's idealization of agricultural labor, opting for a vintage-train vibe.
Education
Teachers Take to the Streets: Education Reform After the SOS March
The march may be over, but the battle for public education is just getting started.
Education
Is Online Standardized Testing the Key to Ending Cheating?
In the wake of Atlanta's massive scandal, why aren't more states copying the SAT and GRE and moving their high stakes tests online?
Culture
Nonprofit Spotlight: This One’s For the Girls
Atlanta's Cool Girls shows girls ages 7-18 how to make lifelong choices that are good for them and their bodies.
Education
Atlanta Teacher Uses Angry Birds for Physics Lessons
A ninth-grade physics teacher at the private Westminster Schools in Atlanta uses the addictive game to teach the laws of projectile motion.
Education
The State of Summer School: Teens Are Hitting the Books Year-Round
Top high school students are feeling the pressure to get into the best colleges, so they're signing up for summer school. Willingly.
Education
Hip Hop and Higher Ed: 10 MCs With College Degrees
Everybody knows Kanye West is a college dropout, but who are the MCs with bachelor's degrees? Here are 10 of our favorites.
Education
What's the Most Literate City in America?
Seattle's lost the Most Literate City in America crown. Is the rest of America losing the literacy battle?
Lifestyle
Giant Food Falling from the Sky
Twelve of the fifteen strangest items dropped to mark the start of the New Year in different towns and cities around America are edible.
Education
Year in Review 2010: Urban School District Leadership in Transition
Almost every major urban school districts saw leadership shakeups this year. Here are some of the biggest.
Design
Transparency: GOOD's Most Popular Infographics of 2010
A look back at the infographics that drew the most attention, on topics from happiness to Burning Man
Education
New Report Puts the Black Male Achievement Crisis in the Spotlight
The latest study on urban black male academic achievement is out, and the data is pretty grim.
Lifestyle
Transparency: Who's Not Washing Their Hands?
Although people claim to wash their hands after dirty activities, when you observe them in person, the story (especially for men) is different.
News
Transparency: The Most Dangerous Cities for Walking
Cities where pedestrians happily walk to their destinations instead of driving everywhere are our dream, but what if walking means taking your...
Culture
Picture Show: Real Life Super Heroes
Portraits of the masked members of the Real Life Super Hero Project, by Peter Tangen.
Cities
Saving Money by Cutting Traffic
America is known for its car culture—but we haven't designed our daily commutes from home to work (and back) to be easy. In fact, they're...
Education
Are Students Pre-segregated Before High School?
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is wrapping up a tour of state school systems around the country. A blog post on the Atlanta Journal...
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Don't Forget to Vote Today (in Select Areas of the Country)
In New Jersey or Virginia, there are two gubernatorial races of various levels of excitement. In far northern New York, there is a very...
