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The science building at Central Oregon Community College, in Bend, Oregon (James Fallows / The Atlantic)
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  • Community Colleges & Technical Training

The Power of a Community College

  • James Fallows
  • August 12, 2019
Last week I reported on a conference of community-college leaders that Deb Fallows and I attended in Michigan, and about some of the reasons we’ve come to believe that community colleges are…
The campus of Dodge City Community College, in western Kansas (James Fallows / The Atlantic)
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  • Community Colleges & Technical Training

The Choices Facing Community Colleges

  • James Fallows
  • August 9, 2019
Decisions critical to the future of these institutions so crucial to this economic and political moment
The headquarters of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, in Danville, Virginia (Courtesy of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research)
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  • Economic Development

Three Big Lessons From One Small Town

  • James Fallows
  • July 18, 2019
Connections, parallel themes, and lessons from Danville
The new headquarters of the Communiversity, in the Golden Triangle of Mississippi, shortly before its opening (Courtesy of East Mississippi Community College)
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  • Economic Development

How a ‘Communiversity’ Works

  • James Fallows
  • May 30, 2019
Real collaboration in Mississippi
The former Angola Christian Church, which has become the Furth Center for Performing Arts at Trine University (Courtesy of Trine University)
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  • Community Colleges & Technical Training

An Engineering School Pulls Off an ‘Epic Trick Play’

  • James Fallows
  • May 21, 2019
Daring and Guts Pay off for Trine University
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
Students from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science during the Emancipation Day celebration in Columbus on May 8, 2019. MSMS senior Dairian Bowles is in the foreground, in the role of Reconstruction-era Mississippi state Senator Robert Gleed.
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  • Civic Life

On Emancipation Day, Back to Mississippi

  • James Fallows
  • May 8, 2019
A return visit to the Golden Triangle
The Ball State University campus in Muncie, Indiana (Courtesy of Ball State University)
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  • Economic Development

‘Unknown Outside Indiana’

  • James Fallows
  • May 3, 2019
The previous four “Our Towns” posts have been about Indiana: One about Angola and the importance of its relationship with Trine University; one about Fort Wayne and its ambitious reconstruction of a cavernous abandoned GE works;…
Muncie High School
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  • Education

An Unusual Way to Bridge the Town-Gown Divide

  • James Fallows
  • May 1, 2019
This post is about a development that few people outside the state of Indiana have ever heard or read about, but that has implications for the country as a whole.…
On the campus of Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana. Ball State teams are known as the Cardinals, and the school's motto is "We fly." (Courtesy of Ball State University)
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  • Economic Development

What We Saw in Muncie

  • James Fallows
  • April 29, 2019
How a university is helping a town move forward
Courtesy of the City of Angola and the Steuben County Tourism Board / Brad Sauter / sevenMaps7 / Shutterstock
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  • Economic Development

A Community Finding a Path Forward

  • James Fallows
  • April 25, 2019
The civic-renewal mix in Angola, Indiana
Quoddy Village, Eastport, Maine.
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  • Economic Development
  • Education

The Ebbs and Flows of Coastal Maine

  • Deborah Fallows
  • September 14, 2016
Quoddy Village was built ahead of its time
Students move between classes at Dodge City High School in Dodge City, Kansas, on April 4, 2007. More than 70 percent of the students at the school are Hispanic.
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  • K-12

Educating Migrant Children in Dodge City

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 3, 2016
"We're a port of entry 1,000 miles from the border."
The Pride of Southwest Kansas: Dodge City High School's marching band.
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  • K-12

Dodge City’s New Frontier

  • Deborah Fallows
  • July 23, 2016
A high school in the famed Kansas town is embracing its rapidly changing demographics.
9th grade student Franke Le, left, telling other students about the advanced manufacturing equipment on which he had already received a special-proficiency certificate, at Indian Springs High School in San Bernardino, California, last year.
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  • Economic Development

The Surprising Problem With U.S. Manufacturing: It’s Creating Too Many Jobs

  • James Fallows
  • June 11, 2016
An ongoing theme of our reports from “career technical” schools—like this high school in Georgia and this community college in Mississippi and these high schools and tech-training centers in California and South Carolina, and these colleges in Vermont and Maine—is that for…

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