An Important New Book About New Orleans and Its Schools
Three scholars have recently published a very informative book about the history of education in New Orleans. The authors tell this story by scrutinizing one...
Category : New Orleans
New Orleans: The Other Side of the Story
I recently interviewed Raynard Sanders, a veteran educator in New Orleans, about his new book The Coup D’etat of the New Orleans Public Schools: Money,...
Mercedes Schneider: The Story Behind the New Orleans Takeover
Mercedes Schneider is a native of Louisiana and she has lived through its recent history. She understands the state and city’s long, deeply ingrained racism....
Join Me Wednesday to Learn the Inside Story of the New Orleans “Coup D’Etat”
On Wednesday February 10, I will host a Zoom discussion with Raynard Sanders about his new book, The Coup D’état of the New Orleans Public...
Jake Jacobs Reviewed Hillary’s Dreadful Education Plan
Jake Jacobs, an art teacher in New York City, a leader of New York BadAss Teachers, and a writer for The Progressive, read and reviewed...
What Happened to the School in New Orleans That Was First to Desegregate?
You may recall the iconic painting of little Ruby Bridges, a first-grader, who was the first African American student to enroll in a previously all-white...
Mercedes Schneider Reviews Douglas Harris’s Book About New Orleans
Mercedes Schneider reviewed Douglas Harris’s book Charter City in Commonweal. As a teacher in Louisiana and a close observer of the politics of education, Schneider...
Chris Barbic, Founder of Failed “Achievement School District,” Returns to Tennessee
Chris Barbic has returned to Tennessee to join its “charter school center.” Barbic, you may recall, launched the much-lauded Achievement School District in Tennessee, drawing...
New Orleans: Why Some Charter Teachers Want to Join a Union
The Education Research Alliance of New Orleans just released a study of why some charter teachers in the nation’s only all-charter district want to join...
New Orleans: Hit Hard by COVID-19, Compounded by Racism
The National Education Policy Center released a report recently by Kristen Buras, one of my favorite scholar-writers. It focuses on dramatic racial disparities in New...