The children hurricane Katrina left behind
Subtitle: schooling context, professional preparation, and community politics
By: edited by Sharon P. Robinson, M. Christopher Brown II.
Contributors: Robinson, Sharon P.; Brown, M. Christopher.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820488226; 9780820497280
Subjects: African American children -- Education; Discrimination in education -- United States; Marginality, Social -- United States; Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crossing the waters : Katrina and other great migration lessons for African American K-12 students' education / Kassie Freeman; title: Now they're wet : hurricane Katrina as metaphor for social and educational neglect / Gloria Ladson-Billings; title: What hurricane Katrina uncovered about schooling in America / Jacqueline Jordan Irvine; title: Hurricane Katrina : catastrophe or opportunity? / Jacqueline Leonard; title: Still waters run deep : post-hurricane Katrina cracks in the educational pipeline for African American students / Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Vernon C. Polite; title: Drowning beneath the rising tide : the common plight of public schools, disadvantaged students, and African American males / M. Christopher Brown II, T. Elon Dancy II, James Earl Davis; title: Reflections on educational equity in post-Katrina New Orleans / Vivian L. Gadsden, Susan Fuhrman; title: Disastrous opportunity / Ira Lit, Jon Snyder; title: Post-Katrina educational contexts : breaking the rules / M. Jayne Fleener, Jerry Willis, Judith Brun, Kristy Hebert; title: Benign neglect or deliberate exclusion? : lessons learned from hurricane Katrina / P. Rudy Mattai, Jacqueline M. Williams; title: For they are us : "tools" for a post-Katrina curriculum and community / Pamela K. Smith, Pat Williams-Boyd; title: Creating world-class teachers : prospects for Katrina recovery and beyond / Sharon Porter Robinson, Penny Engel; title: Tikkun olam / Arthur E. Levine; title: Wastebasket kids and Katrina / Dianne Smith; title: Can you hear me now? : transforming today's challenges to position America for the future / Mary Hatwood Futrell; title: Non-stop Katrina for at-risk children : how we can make it right / Arthur E. Wise, Jane A. Leibbrand; title: Afterword : children drowning in our tears / Lynn Huntley.