In the recovery planning efforts that followed the flooding of New Orleans, we often heard the mantra that we need to have “the community involved…
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In the recovery planning efforts that followed the flooding of New Orleans, we often heard the mantra that we need to have “the community involved…
Why We Pulled Our Daughter Out of a Private Suburban School and Enrolled Her in Public School in New Orleans — a headline intended to provoke.…
Yesterday’s front page story really captured our attention. All credit to reporter Sarah Carr. I’d never heard of the school she focused on, but the…
Xy’s job hunt is in full force. She had a interview at a nearby elementary school last week. Yesterday I came home for lunch to…
Dear Aunt Ron, Thanks for Persephone’s birthday gift. It will probably take her a while to grow into those clothes, but better too big than…
Xy is officially looking for work. She’s been teaching over in Algiers for six years, pretty much continuously, with a little interruption for that storm…
I was talking to Howie and he shared this passage with me: Education is now prized not because the culture values truth and wisdom, or…
I wanted to ask a question of the Education Panel at Rising Tide III, but time ran out and the question went unasked. So I…
Xy’s gearing up for the school year. Teachers are subjected to a seemingly endless number of “professional development” events. I pay some attention to this,…
It’s that time of year again. I’m taking the day off work to help Xy get her classroom in order. Mostly this involves putting educational…
Looking back at the last seven days or so, there’s a lot of stuff I haven’t written about. On the political front, there was controversy…
Xy and I went to see Left Behind Wednesday night. Despite the title, it’s not based on the popular Christian fiction series. Rather, it’s a serious documentary about a serious subject: the abject failure of public education in New Orleans.
Last night Xy’s school had an open house. Twenty parents came by to talk with Xy. Most were from her own class of 25, some…
I had breakfast with Arthur Hardy this morning! Yes, the Arthur Hardy. Michael and I met him at Betsy’s Pancake House to discuss how Mid-City…
The meme seems to go something like this: In our state, officials use third-grade reading levels to project the number of prison beds that will…
Yesterday a bunch of teachers from Xy’s school gathered at the Dry Dock in Algiers Point for snacks and drinks. So after work, I rode…
Students go back to the New Orleans Public Schools today. In theory anyway. In practice — but that’s another story. The big hype this year?…
Xy and I went to see Jonathan Kozol speak at Loyola. He’s the guy who wrote Savage Inequalities; I’ve never read it, but Xy did…