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New technology uses ultrasonic waves to keep algae at the bottom of lakes and water treatment facilities. Find out about the company coming to help Colorado towns.

New technology uses ultrasonic waves to keep algae at the bottom of lakes and water treatment facilities. Find out about the company coming to help Colorado towns.

It’s not hard to find recent examples of places where broaching the need to close schools has blown up in district leaders’ faces. More than two decades of plummeting birth rates have hollowed out classrooms from coast to coast, yet board members and superintendents who propose a consolidation or shutdowns can easily find themselves out […]

At a research conference in late March, Princeton economist Richard DiSalvo presented some startling graphs comparing student enrollments against the number of schools serving those students. By contrasting these two trends, DiSalvo could measure whether and how much districts suffer from what he called adjustment inertia. In other words, do districts open new schools as […]