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Education

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Students from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science doing a historical re-enactment in the town cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi, in 2014.
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  • K-12

Budget Challenges at a Remarkable Mississippi School

  • James Fallows
  • June 4, 2016
An update on what's happening at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science.
The lab floor at FirstBuild in Louisville, Kentucky, where a big corporation is trying to harness the spirit of the startup Maker Movement to create better products, companies, and jobs.
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  • Economic Development

Why the Maker Movement Matters: Part 1, the Tools Revolution

  • James Fallows
  • June 1, 2016
Just like the internet before it, the Maker Movement is revolutionizing manufacturing, with implications for startups and jobs.
Deb Fallows wearing graduation gown.
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  • Colleges & Universities

Deb Fallows at the University of Redlands

  • James Fallows
  • April 24, 2016
During our West Coast travels for American Futures reports in the winter of 2014-2015, my wife Deb and I were based at the University of Redlands, in southern California. From…
Courtyard at Fisher Middle School in South Carolina.
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  • K-12

Tech Meets Art in Middle School

  • Deborah Fallows
  • March 3, 2016
A South Carolina public school gives tech-savvy students a sense of humanity.
Illustration by Adam Voorhes and Robin Finlay.
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  • Civic Life

How America Is Putting Itself Back Together

  • James Fallows
  • February 22, 2016
Most people in the U.S. believe their country is going to hell. But they’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal.
The MSMS in Columbus, Mississippi (Deborah Fallows)
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  • K-12

Mississippi Students Write About Life in Their Home State

  • Deborah Fallows
  • February 18, 2016
Inspiring young writers connect with their literary legacy
Turn-of-the-century postcard of a steamboat on the Tombigbee River in Columbus, Mississippi.
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  • Education

Punching Above Their Weight in Mississippi

  • Deborah Fallows
  • February 11, 2016
Mississippi schools come in #49 in many national rankings. Read these essays and poems by high school students from Columbus, Mississippi. Then tell the folks who make up the rankings that they need a different algorithm.
MMA logo
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  • Community Colleges & Technical Training

Another Look at Maine Maritime: Who is Providing Value, to Whom, and How?

  • James Fallows
  • November 1, 2015
In response to our series of posts about Maine Maritime Academy, we heard from a reader who pushes back on the notion that the merchant-marine academies provide very high career-earnings value to their students, at a low cost.
Classroom at Redmond Proficiency Academy in Oregon, where students personalize their education (Deborah Fallows)
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  • K-12

When High School Means a Build-It-Yourself Education

  • Deborah Fallows
  • June 23, 2015
A charter school in Oregon encourages students to shape their own learning
Bend then and now: left side, when the lumber mills were running full tilt. Right side, today's restored Old Mill district (Historic lumber mill / Wikimedia; Current Old Mill District / James Fallows.)
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  • Community Colleges & Technical Training

A Community College at the Center of an Oregon Recovery Story

  • James Fallows
  • June 22, 2015
When the lumber industry left, the region bet its future on technology—even though it lacked a research university.
San Bernardino's Dr. Bill Clarke (right), presenting 14-year-old Frank Le of Indian Springs High School with a certificate of proficiency in operating an advanced Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) milling machine like the one behind them. This is part of a new skills-for-all emphasis in the city's schools. (James Fallows)
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  • Education

Building for the Future, In California’s Famously Failed City

  • James Fallows
  • June 14, 2015
The Los Angeles Times has a big, new demonstration of how bad things have gotten in the city of San Bernardino. Here’s a look at people doing their best, despite those odds.
Cajon High School, San Bernardino, California (Deborah Fallows)
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  • K-12

A High School That Changes Lives, One at a Time

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 27, 2015
Teachers and students in a bankrupt California city, determined to make progress
"Keeping America Great in Manufacturing," one training project at a time. (Mobile Lab outside main site of Technical Employment Training in San Bernardino, California) (James Fallows)
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  • Economic Development

Post-Memorial Day Note: Another Kind of Service, San Bernardino

  • James Fallows
  • May 26, 2015
"I don't just sit around. I don't sleep much. That's what I do. I do stuff." The story of a man determined to do something for his town.
Ajo High School Mural.
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  • K-12

Growing Up in Ajo

  • Deborah Fallows
  • April 10, 2015
What it takes to get from the desert to college.
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  • K-12

Fresno’s Tiniest Citizens

  • Deborah Fallows
  • March 16, 2015
An elementary school of and for the urban community
Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) (Deborah Fallows)
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  • K-12

Reinventing High School

  • Deborah Fallows
  • March 11, 2015
How Fresno prepares the kids in the middle

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