Category: Blog
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From Separate and Unequal: Finding a Path Forward for Baltimore.
When we talk about transforming Baltimore City Public Schools, we are talking about creating a new path for our children and the future of Baltimore. We are talking about mending century long divides and segregation which still exist in our schools and our neighborhoods. We are talking about the white and middle class flight from…
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Turning the Classroom Right Side Up
It is a community college literature class in Pennsylvania. Laid-off mill workers, retirees and students fresh out of high school choose their seats and prepare for the first lecture. Their professor, a big guy with eyes that brighten at this new adventure looks out at the class and asks, “Who is paying to be here?”…
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Why Build 21st Century Schools With 20th Century Thinking?
we have to think differently about the role of our schools, the hours they are open, and how we welcome our parents, community members and organizations into the school. If we build it they will come is a great assumption for a community school .. unless you lock it or charge fees for using it..which…
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Learning By Design: How the 21st Century School Building project can create better learning, collaboration and schools.
Building More Than Buildings: How the 21st Century Building Project can improve our learning, collaboration, and the schools we build. When Andre Alonso announced the funding of the 21st Century School Building project in Baltimore City, he restated a quote from Winston Churchill: “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” It is a…
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Experiment You
How Students Can Improve Their Health And Learning. Our schools constantly test our students to measure their achievement. But if we want to improve student achievement, it’s time for students to test their schools. Are classrooms too hot or too cold? Are pest and mold problems causing asthma attacks and absences? Are students…
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Destiny Watford rejects the planned Energy Answers Incinerator for Curtis Bay
Destiny Watford, Free Your Voice, speaks against a proposed incinerator at Curtis Bay, an area already suffering from air pollution. Watford won an environmental award for her opposition to the plant.
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Burning Questions for MDE and Curtis Bay
Protesters chant “MDE, enforce the law” and “Incinerator must go!” outside of the offices of the Maryland Department of the Environment in Baltimore. The protesters said that Energy Answers had failed to meet the conditions of their permit and that the company should not be allowed to construct an incinerator under an expired permit. Only…