New Orleans Before and After Katrina
From New Orleans, Warnings for Texas About School Privatization, AlterNet
New Orleans Charter Schools are Punishing Students for Being Poor, AlterNet
10 Years After Katrina: An Illustrated Unhappy Ending, Jezebel
New Orleans Switch to Charter Schools After Katrina: A ‘Takeover’ or a Success?, The Guardian
This Will Be the True Test of Success in NOLA, Education Post Podcast
Live from New Orleans with special guest and parent Ed activist, Ashana Bigard, Podcast: citizen Stewart
Big Easy, Little Choice, Seattle Education Blog Post
New Orleans Schools Continue to Fail Their Students, The Virginian Pilot & The Progressive Media Project
Post-Katrina Ed Reform Adds to Trauma, National Journal
Ashana Bigard: 10 years after Katrina, New Orleans is failing its kids, The Dallas Morning News
Ashana Bigard: 10 years after Katrina, New Orleans is failing its kids, The Gulf Today
Ten Years after Katrina: ‘Recovery,’ ‘Resilience’ & REALITY, Greater New Orleans Organizers Roundtable
What Happens When You Lose Your People: Hurricane Katrina Revisisted 10 Years Later, Identities.Mic
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise: Season 1, Episode 2, Imbd
Daily Beast Innovators Summit, Getty Images
Ashana Bigard in front of Sophie B. Wright Charter School, The Lens NOLA (flicker)
Education
Our Vision of School Safety Must Include Mental Health, The Progressive
In New Orleans, Safe Schools Are Not an Option, The Progressive
School Discipline, Captured on Video, The Progressive
Don’t Believe Reports that New Orleans is Regaining Control of its Schools, The Progressive
Why Our New Orleans Community Had to Stage Its Own Graduation Ceremony, The Progressive
Hurricane Lessons: A New Orleans School Activist’s Message to New Survivors, The Progressive
Confederate Statues are Down in New Orleans, but Structural Racism Still Stands Tall in Our Schools, The Progressive
Would Today’s Schools Put Dennis the Menace Behind Bars?, The Progressive
From New Orleans: Washing Machine-Style Education Reform, The Progressive
Ten Years After Katrina, New Orleans Is Failing Its Kids, The Progressive
National Charter School Hoopla, The Progressive
Ashana Bigard: New Orleans is a Failing District, Diane Ravitch’s Blog
*I Went to the National Charter Conference & All I Got Was This Lousy Responsibility Bracelet*, Edushyster
In Reforming New Orleans, Have Some Charter Schools Left Some Students Out?, PBS Newshour
Here’s What I Want to See in the #Next10: Schools That Live in the Reality of the Children We Hope to Educate, The Second Line Education Blog
Culture and Community
Defending Will Smith Sends the Wrong Message to Children, The Progressive
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