(City students were excluded from the analysis because no city schools had adopted four-day weeks. Only rural, small town and suburban students were included.)
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ArtPlace America Names 97 Finalists for Creative Placemaking Grants | ArtPlace America - 3 views
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Lots of third spaces in the making here. Look at all the California finalists!
What the research says about 4-day school weeks - MindShift - 0 views
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The switch seemed to hurt reading achievement more than math achievement.
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Rural schools accounted for seven out of 10 schools on the four-day schedule in this study.
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Mr. China Comes to America - James Fallows - The Atlantic - 1 views
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Interesting to think how museums could become more involved in design, incubation and the maker movement.
The Next Hundred Million by Joel Kotkin - 0 views
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argues against American decline says immigration from Asia and Latin America will be a force for dynamism, innovation, and prosperity challenge will be promoting social mobility and economic prosperity for aspirational Americans
Poverty In America: Defining The New Poor : NPR - 0 views
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poverty has been on the rise since 2000
As America grays, businesses help seniors age in place - The Washington Post - 0 views
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New services and devices allowing older adults to stay in their homes.
Census director: One 'mainstream culture' doesn't make much sense - In America - CNN.co... - 0 views
The complex role of malls: private but sort-of-public spaces - 0 views
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...over the last few months, conflicting claims have emerged about how malls fit within Twin Cities society. ("#Itsmymall!" "No, #itsmymall!") The seemingly audacious protest by the #blacklivesmatter movement and subsequent reaction by the Mall of America and the Bloomington prosecutor illuminate the complex relationship that shopping malls have as public and private spaces. Like it or not, they are simultaneously massive private companies and rough, if degraded, facsimiles of Gruen's public sphere.
California's changing face, through centuries of books | California Watch - 0 views
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"The browser is designed to enable you to examine the frequency of words (banana) or phrases ('United States of America') in books over time,"
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5.2 million books – about 4 percent of all published books.
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Google's Ngram Viewer
America's cultural generation gap | Minnesota Public Radio News - 0 views
Five Years After Pioneering It in North America, Chicago Might Take Participatory Budge... - 0 views
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Participatory budgeting -- part of the Open Government trend
2013 Great Places in America - 0 views
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great places ("you know them when you see them" as we say in our baseline report) are listed in 3 categories: neighborhoods, streets and public places.
America's Urban Future - NYTimes.com - 2 views
2014 Great Places in America - 0 views
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Nothing in California made the list of Great Places, but maybe we can help change that!
What happens when America's Soviet-style food banks embrace free-market economics? - 0 views
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Interesting example of thinking out of the box: food bank consulted with economists to develop fair and efficient system for distributing donated food.
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