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Deborah Fallows

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Deborah Fallows is a writer, linguist and fellow at New America. She has written extensively on language, education, families and work, China, and travel for The Atlantic, National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, The LA Times, and The Washington Monthly.
City of Asylum houses on Sampsonia Way in Pittsburgh
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  • Language

A River of Words in Pittsburgh

  • Deborah Fallows
  • October 21, 2019
As we've traveled around the country with our American Futures and Our Towns projects since 2013, my husband, Jim, and I have evolved from being skeptics to evangelists about the impact of public arts on communities.
The Nashville Public Library (Wangkun Jia / Shutterstock)
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  • Libraries

A Big Little Idea From Nashville

  • Deborah Fallows
  • September 30, 2019
During our travels visiting towns and cities across the country for American Futures and now Our Towns, Jim Fallows (my husband) and I have encountered story after story of short, sweet initiatives…
The central library of the Forsyth County Public Library (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Libraries
  • Museums & Galleries

The Library That’s Also an Art Gallery

  • Deborah Fallows
  • September 17, 2019
A "hub of Winston-Salem in touch with the people."
Road with the words "Good Health," painted on it.
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  • Health & Well-Being

The Surprising Rural Health-Care Legacy of the ’60s

  • Deborah Fallows
  • September 4, 2019
Eastport Grapples with Health-Care
The Peavey Memorial Library in Eastport, Maine (Courtesy of the Tides Institute & Museum of Art)
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  • Libraries

The Gift of a Public Library

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 28, 2019
A legacy that continues.
The view from our plane this week, headed to Maine (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Arts
  • Economic Development

Flying Down East

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 15, 2019
Headed back to Eastport
Murals on the wall of the teen space in the Brownsville Public Library's main branch (Courtesy of Deborah Fallows)
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  • Libraries

A Public Library of, by, and for the People

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 6, 2019
A "how to" on staying relevant through invention and reinvention
The new 'Arc of Dreams' sculpture over the Big Sioux River in downtown Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in July 2019, shortly before its formal unveiling. (James Fallows / The Atlantic)
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  • Civic Life
  • Language

How a City Talks About Itself: Sioux Falls

  • Deborah Fallows
  • July 29, 2019
In June 2013, my husband, Jim, and I first landed our small, single-engine Cirrus propeller airplane at the main airport, Joe Foss Field, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It was the first…
From the Brownsville side, the wall. On the other side is the Rio Grande, whose centerline marks the official border between the United States and Mexico in this part of Texas. (James Fallows / The Atlantic)
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  • Economic Development

‘A River, Not A Border’: Report from Brownsville

  • Deborah Fallows
  • July 14, 2019
Striving together for good health and well being in a Texas border town.
A collection of Our Towns players from Ajo, Arizona; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Columbus, Mississippi. From left to right: Morgan Adams, Ben Speggen, Erin Williams, Ferki Ferati, Dairian Bowles, Stuart Siegel, Emily Siegel, Deb Fallows, Jim Fallows, and Chuck Yarborough, standing in front of the Chautauqua Institution's Hall of Missions. (Courtesy of Deborah Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

When Small Towns Take the Big Stage

  • Deborah Fallows
  • July 8, 2019
Connecting Ajo, Columbus, and Erie
Bookshelves in a library filled with brail books for the blind.
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  • Libraries

A Public Library Brings Opportunity to the Blind

  • Deborah Fallows
  • June 29, 2019
The Heiskell Library in NYC provides both unique and also ordinary library services to its clientele.
Boxes of food awaiting distribution from 'God's Storehouse' in Danville, Virginia (Courtesy of Deborah Fallows)
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  • Health & Well-Being

A Regional Approach to Rural Healthcare Challenges

  • Deborah Fallows
  • June 22, 2019
God's Storehouse, a food pantry serving low-income people along this southernmost border where Virginia meets North Carolina.
Outside of a YMCA building.
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  • Local Institutions

A Community Within A Community

  • Deborah Fallows
  • June 11, 2019
Restoring Spirit and Pride in Danville
Above the doorway of the Columbus Metropolitan Library are the words Open to All. (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Libraries

When Libraries Are ‘Second Responders’

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 23, 2019
Everyone knows about first responders. I've come to think of libraries as playing a crucial role as "second responders."
Seniors at the Mississippi School of Mathematics and Science are shown on "senior reveal day" this month. They wore white lab coats, and then pulled them off to reveal shirts of the colleges they will be attending. (Courtesy of the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science)
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  • Education

Can Schools ‘Teach Students to Think’?

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 16, 2019
A reader's response
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
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  • Education

How to Teach Students to Think

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 13, 2019
Students getting a 'first chance' at MSMS

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