California’s Centers of Technology: Bay Area, LA, San Diego, and . . . Fresno?
by James Fallows
How would you build a high-tech center in a vast farming zone? You might start by applying tech solutions to farming problems of water use and sustainability in all forms. (Read it here.)
Reinventing High School
Reinventing High School
by Deborah Fallows
How Fresno prepares the kids in the middle. This is an amazingly innovative public high school. Read it here.
Welcome to American Futures 3.0
Welcome to American Futures 3.0
by James Fallows
A new season of reports on a renewing America (Read it here.)
Talking With Dan Richard about High-Speed Rail
Talking With Dan Richard about High-Speed Rail
by James Fallows
The chairman of California’s costly and controversial infrastructure project explains why (in his view) it actually will get built—and whether its champion, 77-year-old Governor Jerry Brown, is likely to be able to take a ride.
(Read it here.)
A Calculated Risk I Decided Not to Take
A Calculated Risk I Decided Not to Take
by James Fallows
“Here we were doing what was a ‘strafing run’ down the highway and talking to Snake Eye and looking for the craters at the south end of the corridor.” Why we made this last leg of the journey by car.
(Read it here.)
On SOTU Day, a ‘City Makers Summit’ and Some Next Steps in Civic Life
On SOTU Day, a ‘City Makers Summit’ and Some Next Steps in Civic Life
by James Fallows
A conference in Washington, a development across the country
(Read it here.)
California High-Speed Rail: The Collector’s Edition
California HIgh-Speed Rail: The Collector’s Edition
by James Fallows
An index to the arguments pro and con about the most ambitious infrastructure project in the United States (Read it here.)
California High-Speed Rail: A Minor End, an Important Beginning
California High-Speed Rail: A Minor End, an Important Beginning
by James Fallows
Who should get the benefit of the doubt when we consider the unknowable future?
(Read it here.)
How to Create a Tech Startup Scene If You’re Not in Silicon Valley
How to Create a Tech Startup Scene If You’re Not in Silicon Valley
by John Tierney
Pittsburgh’s success provides important and surprising clues. (Read it here.)
A Rural High School with a 21st Century Outlook
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/12/a-rural-high-school-with-a-21st-century-outlook/383963/
by Deborah Fallows
A California school prepares its students for success. (Read it here.)
American Futures 