City Makers: American Futures

Education

• Reinventing High School

  How Fresno prepares the kids in the middle

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Mar 11, 2015

• How to Create a Tech Startup Scene If You're Not in Silicon Valley

  Pittsburgh's success provides important and surprising clues.

  • John Tierney
  • Dec 23, 2014

• A Rural High School with a 21st Century Outlook

  A California school prepares its students for success.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Dec 20, 2014

• America's Tiniest Innovators: Report from Pittsburgh

  Teaching technology and life lessons in an urban elementary school

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Nov 15, 2014

• When a Community College Transforms a City

  Ohio State University may be the local titan, but Columbus State Community College has also become a formidable presence.

  • John Tierney
  • Oct 29, 2014

• A Creative Way to Educate Low-Income Students

  In Columbus, Ohio, an innovative school has patched together state funds, work study, and grants to give at-risk kids a high-quality education.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Oct 16, 2014

• Not Your Mother's Library

  How Columbus, Ohio, is building community spaces for the 21st century

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Oct 6, 2014

• It Takes a Village—to Staff a Factory

  "It indeed is an oasis, but the passion and commitment are replicable elsewhere." A Kenyan-born man working in Mississippi on some of the things the state has done right.

  • James Fallows
  • Jul 10, 2014

• Raj Shaunak and the Economic Boom in Eastern Mississippi

  It's one thing to draw high-skill, high-wage jobs to a place that has historically lacked opportunities. It's something else altogether to find people qualified to fill them. A local answer to a national question.

  • James Fallows
  • Jul 8, 2014

• Build Your Own 3D Printer

  High-school science projects from Mississippi

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Jun 6, 2014

• A Real Story of Memorial Day

  The origins of this weekend's holiday, linking Mississippi and The Atlantic

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 23, 2014

• Students From Mississippi Write About Their State

  "MSMS is often referred to as the most diverse square mile in the state of Mississippi, alluding to academic interests, ethnicities, belief systems, aspirations, and much more," a high school senior writes. "It's true."

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 20, 2014

• A Mississippi School Striving for Excellence

  “I am so happy to be here. I have so many opportunities. I am so fortunate.”

  • Deborah Fallows
  • May 18, 2014

• Emancipation Day Commemoration in Eastern Mississippi

  "It's not a black thing. It's not a white thing. It's an American thing."

  • James Fallows
  • May 8, 2014

• A High School That Teaches Students to Fly, and Other Innovations in 'Career Technical' Education

  "A lot of problem-solving skills grow out of the experience of doing things rather than thinking about things."

  • James Fallows
  • Apr 1, 2014

• 'Career Technical' Education: More Middle in the Middle Class?

  Training students for jobs that are less likely to be outsourced, de-skilled, or stuck at minimum wage.

  • James Fallows
  • Mar 29, 2014

• High School in Southern Georgia: What 'Career Technical' Education Looks Like

  A school that is famous for football is notable in an entirely different way.

  • James Fallows
  • Mar 27, 2014

• What My School Means to Me: Essays from 3 High Schoolers

  How students at an unusual school think—and write—about their experience.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Mar 9, 2014

• Dreaming Big in South Carolina: A Public Boarding School for the Arts

  by Deborah Fallows

  • James Fallows
  • Jan 30, 2014

• America's Tiniest Engineers: Report From Greenville, South Carolina

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Jan 20, 2014

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