Winds of Change
As their schools reopened weeks after Hurricane Katrina, students and teachers in Jefferson Parish, La., were realizing just how much their lives had changed.
Kenner, La.
As Jo-Ann G. Ordoyne takes the roll in her 11th grade American history class, about half the names she calls out are greeted with silence.
“Fernando?” says Ordoyne, a teacher here at Bonnabel High School for 33 years. “Anybody hear from Fernando?”
...
This article is available to subscribers only.
To keep reading this article and more, subscribe now or start a 2-week FREE trial.
Already have an account? Please login.
Subscribe to Education Week
You Save 20% or More!
Most Popular Stories
Viewed
Emailed
Recommended
Commented
Sponsored Whitepapers
• Best Practices in Information Management, Reporting and Analytics for Education
• Smart infrastructure report to get your district ready for future IT needs.
• Integrating Social and Emotional RTI to Improve Student Performance
• Taming the wild west: How America’s third largest school district manages PCs, Macs, and iPads
• Overcoming the Odds: Getting Every Student to College YES Prep Shares Its Success Story
- Chief Executive Officer
- Prince George's County Public Schools, Prince George`s County, MD
- Vermont Secretary of Education
- Vermont State Board of Education, VT
- Principal
- Christ the King Preparatory School, NJ
- Regional Area Partner
- Focus EduVation, US
- Principal
- The Berkeley Institute, HAMILTON, Bermuda