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Author: Folwell Dunbar

Letter: Don’t throw the baby out with the Airbnb-bathwater

September 7, 2023 Updated September 7, 2023
A couple who rented out half of their double asks the city to consider small operators instead of using lotteries or banning residential Airbnbs altogether.

The Benefits of Practicing What We Teach

August 15, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019
As students return to area schools this month, Folwell Dunbar highlights some teachers whose careers outside of the classroom enhances their work inside.

Student testing for the 21st century: finding alternatives to forced choice

March 27, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019
Better options are out there, or on the way.

How about creating schools with more purpose than test scores and letter grades?

August 13, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019
Students benefit, but so do their communities.

Florida Panhandle’s paradise lost: ‘New Urbanism’ gone awry

September 26, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
Boyhood beachcomber worries about Bywater

School choice since Katrina: the promises made, the challenges ahead

November 27, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
New Orleans emerges as the nation's boldest experiment in school innovation.

Nostalgia undermines struggle to make so-so schools truly excellent

November 20, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
What the older generation remembers from their own school days is increasingly irrelevant to a changing world.

Saving the art of teaching from the science of education

September 11, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Modern educators are taking Taylorism off the assembly line and applying it to the classroom.

Memo to charters: Steal, pirate, plagiarize the private school playbook

February 13, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
Private prep school have forged many of secondary education's "best practices." Folwell Dunbar says the best public charter schools are smart to be copycats.

Potholes, oh my potholes: An ode to crumbling city streets

October 15, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

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