Hi all!
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 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, while Caroline Preston looks at how climate change is being taught on campus – 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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The school system, devastated by Hurricane Katrina, enters a new phase in its long recovery
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Researcher ‘recalibrates’ expectations for tutoring as it becomes the new normal for many
How colleges are trying to make a dent in climate change
As kids head back to school, parents should be asking if their kids are ready for grade-level work
Under the shadow of the shuttered mills and mines, Lincoln County, Montana, is breaking free of dependence on extractive industries. At the center of that future is a local community college
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
A FAFSA fiesta encourages students fill out the financial aid form
Give them subscriptions to their local newspapers so they can read them on their phones
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From the vault
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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
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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