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On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
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On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
My favorite thing we did this whole trip! And you can't actually see the Washington Monument in this photo—you can, however, see the Thomas Jefferson Memorial on the far side of the Tidal Basin—because the photo was taken from the Washington Monument. At the top!
Getting these tickets were by far the biggest challenge—even more so than getting White House tour tickets, which, strangely, you have to coordinate with one of your Congressional representatives (either the Representative from your U.S. House District or one of your Senators; I did that one through Representative Pramila Jayapal's office)—of any I managed to get for this trip. I didn't even get these tickets in advance, much as I tried: if you have a target date for when you want to go, tickets are released one month in advance online, and another 30 are released at 10 a.m. Eastern every day one day prior. I tried both of these approaches, two different times each, to no avail—tickets disappear quickly. We spoke to a park ranger at the Washington Monument (which, incidentally, is part of the National Parks system) on Thursday and she told us there are people who use AI to swoop in and grab huge swaths of tickets at a time and then attempt to sell them later, even though they are actually free. But, she said, 250 same-day tickets are released every morning at 8:45, and she recommended we get in line at least by 8:00 if we wanted to go that route.
It should come as no surprise to you that I am committed, and I don't mind waiting an hour in line for things. My only concern here was having to get up that early, as it meant getting out of bed at least by 6 a.m. Eastern, which is 3 a.m. Pacific. I had fairly acclimated to the time difference, though, and when I woke up and saw the clock around 6 a.m., I hopped right out of bed. By the time both of us were ready to walk the two miles from our hotel, we had enough time to get there and in line by 7:55 a.m. There were 26 people in line ahead of us, each with the ability to claim up to 6 tickets—we were safe; the ticket window opened on schedule at 8:45; and we snagged tickets for the earliest slot at 9 a.m.! I was beyond thrilled.
The Washington Monument is by a wide margin the tallest structure, excluding things like radio or TV towers in Washington, D.C., at 555 feet (169 m), and is only partly the reason everything else in D.C. is so much shorter: the Height of Buildings Act of 1899 established that no building could be taller than the Capitol (289 ft / 88 m), and the Height of Buildings Act of 1910 further restricted heights to no more than 20 ft taller than the width of the street it faces. The Washington Monument pre-dates all of this, having been constructed between 1848 and 1888 (with a hiatus 1854-1877 due to the Civil War), and so does the Old Post Office Pavilion (we'll discuss this later), and the Act has been updated a few times to grant minor exceptions depending on the circumstance and the location. But overall, the city has maintained the height restrictions to preserve the "light and airy" character envisioned of the city by Thomas Jefferson.
The result of all this, to this day, is a city skyline not only muted for a city its size: 702,000 in the city proper (compare to 781,000 in Seattle) and a metropolitan population of 6.3 million (7th-largest in the nation; compare to metro Seattle's 4 million, ranked 15th)—but truly unique and unusual. Almost all of Washington, D.C.'s downtown buildings are 12 or 13 stories tall; the only things sticking noticeably above them are the Washington Monument (555 ft / 169 m) near the west end of the National Mall; the U.S. Capitol (289 ft / 88 m) at the east end of the National Mall; and in the middle just north of the Mall in downtown, the Old Post Office Pavilion (with the clock tower, 315 ft / 96 m). Only the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception stands shorter than the Washington Monument but taller than the Old Post Office, its tower standing at 329 ft (100 m), but that stands about three and a half miles northeast of the Washington Monument. In any case, downtown Washington is barely recognizable as such compared to dozens of other, far taller cities, though it's an interesting experience walking down streets that create strangely uniform corridors of buildings as far as the eye can see that are all basically the same height.
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
My boys decided to "mythbust," seeing what would happen if they stuffed their Star Wars gun with flour and then fired it. Boy, did they have fun. It gave me a chance to practice with action shots and fast shutter speeds. I like my 3 year old's expression.
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
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On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon
On Nov. 19, David Berliner, the author of "50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools," visited Vivian Field Middle School. He met with community members as they toured the school and visited classrooms through a "Mythbusting Tour" to see the great things happening in public education and in CFB.
Photos by Shelley Gammon