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Education
Why Rich Zip Codes Should Fund Schools in Poor Areas
What would happen if the property taxes from Bel Air paid for the schools in Watts? Next month, my daughter begins first grade at our local...
Education
Is Summer Vacation the Enemy?
If you're anything like most Americans, you associate the summer with feelings of creativity and liberation and the school year with misery and...
Education
Use It or Lose It
How schools are forced to spend money. Now that we’ve begun a new fiscal year in school districts throughout the country, the books are being...
Education
Skype's New Education Platform Connects Classrooms Around the Globe
Teachers have long embraced Skype. Now the company is embracing them back with special features for educators.
The Community Board
Tomato Potato 2: Collecting Resources
Okay, so if you noticed our first post, we're going to start a garden in our asphalt backyard in downtown LA (see profile picture). After a while...
The Community Board
Pennies for your thoughts
Here's an idea: Take pennies out of circulation to save the U.S. government some money - it costs more than one cent to print a penny, why print...
The Community Board
Permablitz Project - Eating the Suburbs One Backyard at a time
http://permablitz.net Permablitz (noun): An informal gathering involving a day on which a group of at least two people come together to achieve...
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: A Crusade Against Waste
When Jonathan Bloom writes about food, he writes about the 40 percent of it we grow and then throw away, uneaten.
