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What kind of ‘Little Free Library’ would you create for your community?
They look like trellises and fishtanks, spacesuits and mailboxes, the New York Times reports.…
How to turn an urban school district around—without cheating
The Atlantic reports that the recent public school test-cheating scandals in Atlanta and Washington D.C. are insidious not only in their impact on their own communities, but also in feeding…
Stories of struggle and creativity as sequestration cuts hit home
The New York Times reports that facing the task of cutting 142 children from the Head Start program in Colorado Springs this fall, the teachers and administrators came up with…
New initiative for Detroit Public Schools: What will it mean?
Detroit Public Schools announced a groundbreaking initiative that should have broad-spectrum impacts for residents when fully implemented, Yahoo News reports. …
Google execs say ‘The power of information is underrated’
Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen — coauthors of a new book, The New Digital Age — recently returned from a highly publicized trip to North Korea, NPR reports.…
Google’s Earth Day doodle reflects planet’s complexity
Google is marking Earth Day 2013 on Monday with what might be its busiest yet more subtle animated doodles. In fact, its level of involvement has led Google to provide…
‘New tradition’ for Georgia students: Their first racially integrated prom
As Quanesha Wallace remembers, it was around this time last year when the idea first came up at Wilcox County High School, CNN reports.…
Student auctions off future earnings, drops out of college
Fed up and sinking in college loan debt, Sarah Hanson decided to gamble on a novel idea, the Huffington Post reports. …
Construction of world’s largest optical telescope approved
If you love eye-popping images of space, here's welcome news: the Hawaiian Board of Land and Natural Resources has backed building what's to be the world's largest, most powerful optical…
Recipe for high-school success: be curious, work late, ignore the textbooks
I didnʼt start biomedical research to learn more about stem cells or skin regeneration back in ninth grade, reports The Globe and Mail.…