College Offers Lessons Tied to Katrina Documentary
With a $975,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, a team of educators at Teachers College, Columbia University, is developing curriculum materials linked to a recent Spike Lee documentary on the devastation Hurricane Katrina...
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Clarification:
This story should have said the Rockefeller Foundation provided only partial funding for "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," a documentary about Hurricane Katrina's impact on New Orleans.
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