Here in Tucson, we love our offbeat parades. Take, for example, the annual Downtown Parade of Lights. If there’s a theme, it’s “Things That Have Lights On Them.” And that covers a lot of territory.
The 13th edition of this parade included a collection of vintage police and fire vehicles, the public library’s Bookmobile, a […]

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One of the great joys of visiting another place is wandering around. Even if you’ve been there before.
Take, for example, Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is home to the University of Michigan. I first developed the habit of wandering around town with a camera while I was a U-M student. It was a nice break from […]

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American students aren’t the only ones dropping out of school. Their teachers are leaving too. Poor working conditions and low pay are the oft-cited reasons. The dropout problem among science teachers is especially critical because they are hard to replace.
The Science Teaching as a Profession (STP) project is working to elevate the status of secondary […]

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