Fire stations face threats from theft, intrusion, natural disasters, and internal vulnerabilities, requiring a balanced security approach. Implementing Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design ...

(NEXSTAR) — You won’t find any new pennies in your pocket change in 2026, but you will spot redesigns on some of the coins minted in the U.S. In honor of the nation’s semiquincentennial (aka, its ...

Sidewalk sheds are ubiquitous facets of New York City life. After Local Law 11 was enacted in 1998, as an update to a 1980 law passed after a Barnard College student was tragically killed by a loose ...

As Steve Jobs said, asking for help is “what separates, sometimes, the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.” So if you need something, asking politely is effective. (As Mark ...

Years ago, I had the opportunity to lead a 10-month intranet overhaul for Sprint Telecommunications company, headquartered in Kansas City. We didn’t just build a new system—we transformed how ...

George Orwell once wrote that restating the obvious is the “first duty of intelligent people.” In that vein, allow us to restate the case for what may be literacy instruction’s richest but ...

A new collaborative organization aims to spur innovation in the design of classrooms and learning environments. The Design for Learning Co-Lab is creating a common vocabulary and uniting educators, ...

Giving on the Edge: Effective Altruism’s Post-SBF Comeback After the epic downfall of its most prominent backer, Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic philosophy — Effective Altruism — is back and ...

Over the past two months, I’ve been doing a long public goodbye—retiring from my teaching career, not from writing this blog. And now, it’s time for what I think may be my last commentary about my ...