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Audacious Ideas is a blog created to stimulate ideas and discussion about solutions to difficult problems in Baltimore. Each week, we will ask individuals to think candidly and audaciously about what can be done to promote opportunity, achievement, health and prosperity in our city. Open Society Institute-Baltimore believes that discussion and debate are critical to making positive, lasting changes. We see this as a testing ground where ideas can be considered and discussion can be fostered.Categories
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Imagining a safe passage
I propose a simple, but powerful, way for Baltimoreans to support the city’s youth and schools. It won’t cost a lot of money, or take a lot of time. It doesn’t require the overhaul of a bureaucracy. But it would … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Youth
Tagged community conversations, OSI staff, working together, youth
24 Comments
The city and the neighborhood as school
In light of the recent court decision about charter school funding, the old dichotomy about charter schools versus “traditional” public schools comes alive. The dichotomy is false. Charter schools can be neighborhood schools, if the outreach is to a neighborhood … Continue reading
Posted in Community Building, Education and Youth
Tagged education, models, working together, youth
18 Comments
Imagining might spur action
What would it take to create a widespread sense of urgency about solving Baltimore’s problems? I often feel that our region’s relative wealth allows some of us to be insulated from the pockets of poverty and instability that deeply affect … Continue reading