In 2003, New Orleans public schools were among the worst in the country. Seventy percent of eighth-graders were not proficient in math, 74 percent weren’t proficient in English, and the graduation ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty years ago, the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina inadvertently created the conditions for one of the most remarkable education ...
A new documentary by the author of Reinventing Government shows how one of the nation's worst school districts became the fastest improving.