1. Reimagine your school library as a makerspace.
By Susan Bearden in EdSurge
2. New materials could radically change air conditioning.
By The Economist
3. Ambassadorships are too important to hand out to political donors.
By Justine Drennan in Foreign Policy
4. There’s a better way: Using data and evidence — not politics — to make policy.
By Margery Turner at the Urban Institute
By Lewis Brown Jr. and Heather McCulloch in PolicyLink

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