New Orleans opens its own new school for first time since Katrina

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This week, the city of New Orleans is once again closing schools in advance of a major storm, a harsh reminder of the Crescent City’s fragile environment and the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Katrina destroyed nearly 90 percent of the public schools in the city, and the state’s Recovery School District took most of them over and created a network of charter schools.

But this fall the district opened its own new public school ([link removed]) for the first time in nearly two decades, Hechinger’s Ariel Gilreath explains. It’s a tentative step toward a new era in the city where permanent, traditional neighborhood schools are more commonplace.

Also this week, Jill Barshay digs into the latest research on intensive, post-pandemic tutoring ([link removed]) , while Caroline Preston looks at how climate change is being taught on campus ([link removed]) – in many different ways across disciplines.

Finally, many of our reporters and editors are attending or moderating sessions at major conferences: Holon IQ in New York City, Education Writers Association’s higher ed event in Philadelphia and Emerging School Models in Boston. Please come say hi if you are there, too.

Liz Willen, Editor

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** All-charter no more: New Orleans opens its first traditional school in nearly two decades ([link removed])
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The school system, devastated by Hurricane Katrina, enters a new phase in its long recovery
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** Students aren’t benefiting much from tutoring, one new study shows ([link removed])
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Researcher ‘recalibrates’ expectations for tutoring as it becomes the new normal for many



** Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session ([link removed])
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How colleges are trying to make a dent in climate change



** OPINION: It’s finally time to put pandemic excuses behind us and hold students to higher standards ([link removed])
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As kids head back to school, parents should be asking if their kids are ready for grade-level work



** A community college promises a rural county it ‘hasn’t been left to die’ ([link removed])
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** Building better early grade math teachers: Milwaukee goes back to an old playbook ([link removed])
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Twenty years ago, the district launched a math initiative that saw success before the funding ran out. Now, it’s trying to bring back the effort for the early years



** Can the FAFSA mean … fun? ([link removed])
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A FAFSA fiesta encourages students fill out the financial aid form



** OPINION: Here’s an old-fashioned, win-win idea to get students engaged before this fall’s election ([link removed])
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Give them subscriptions to their local newspapers so they can read them on their phones
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** America’s schools and colleges are operating under two totally different sets of rules for sex discrimination ([link removed])
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A spate of lawsuits, including one brought by Moms for Liberty, yielded a patchwork of Title IX enforcement rulings — and confusion — as a new school year begins



** See whether your school uses Biden or Trump’s rules on sexual discrimination and gender identity ([link removed])
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Lawsuits challenging the new Title IX regulations have helped create a landscape in which different states and schools are following different rules

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