ArtPlace America Names 97 Finalists for Creative Placemaking Grants | ArtPlace America - 3 views
What the research says about 4-day school weeks - MindShift - 0 views
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(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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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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The Next Hundred Million by Joel Kotkin - 0 views
Poverty In America: Defining The New Poor : NPR - 0 views
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poverty has been on the rise since 2000
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.