The Hechinger Report
APRIL 29, 2019
Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. I lost my job just like everyone else,” McKneely said, referring to the mass layoff of New Orleans teachers after Hurricane Katrina. Related: As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 8, 2017
His mother, Tyra Hales, signed him up for a youth team at a park near their home in Gentilly, a predominantly black neighborhood that was inundated by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters for weeks in 2005. Renaissance lost four grueling non-division games in a row. “We When we started to take losses, I could see people starting to get down.”.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. Yet the internet and reference books teem with professionally endorsed lists of so-called gifted traits. Additional Black kids were “talented,” which in Louisiana refers specifically to the arts.) Psychologists later poked holes in that definition.
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