There’s just no reason why a four-year college degree should cost anything like what it does. Here's a different model.
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This data shows that if you want a successful economy, you have to have a talented population.
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A new high school is heralded as a model of innovation, but it's part of a depressing trend in modern school planning: isolated facilities on the unwalkable fringe.
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In this podcast interview, Steve Shultis shares his perspective on raising a family in a walkable neighborhood and choosing to send his kids to an urban school.
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Like so much of our modern world, we seem to have boiled education down to a series of discrete inputs and outputs. This is convenient for making measurements, but I’m not convinced we have obtained any more wisdom about collectively raising productive, intelligent children in the last two centuries of public schools in the US than our distant ancestors.
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What if we shifted all transportation funding into the classroom? What if we ended the mandate for schools to provide transportation?
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7 steps to taking the leap and getting the most out of urban public schools.
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5 things I learned while teaching my kids to use public transit.
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Safe Routes to School is a very popular federal program designed to make is easier for students to walk and bike to school. What if we instead chose to build Schools on Safe Routes?
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Provo, UT is undertaking a grand experiment in suburbanizing a public high school. Here are 3 major problems with that plan.
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As a society, we are zealous when it comes to the safety of children. And rightfully so. Still, for some reason we find it perfectly acceptable to routinely include them in the most dangerous activity of American life: riding in a car.
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This week, we're inviting readers to join us for an open conversation with President of Strong Towns, Chuck Marohn on the topic of schools.
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When you're faced with the choice of living in an urban neighborhood with "poor" schools, or a suburban neighborhood with "good" schools, you find a work around. That's what these entrepreneurial spirits did in San Francisco.
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Share photos of your children's trip to school with the hashtag #SchoolCommute
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We will not have strong cities, towns and neighborhoods without our school systems being part of the effort.
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In closing many neighborhood schools over the years, my local school district has walked away from neighborhoods that are already struggling, making the situation in those places much worse.
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Tulsa, OK is one of the most unlikely suspects to attract urban, entrepreneurial millennials. Yet here we are.
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A year ago, I wrote about an old school being converted into a community center. This photo collection shows what has happened since, the results of Strong Citizenship.
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I have a lot of conversations with people about the challenge of improving public schools, building affordable housing, and more. But the truth is, we as a society don’t want to solve these problems. So we won’t.
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Our latest featured post from the member blogroll comes to us from Paul Fritz’s blog, Small Town Urbanism. This piece was inspired by a conversation Paul had with Strong Towns founder, Chuck Marohn, after a recent event in Santa Rosa, CA.
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