In a field awash with academic treatises, jeremiads, and ideological harangues, Andre Perry has written an unusual book about New Orleans' school system: a fictionalized tale of broken schools, narrated by a young professor who moves to New Orleans to overhaul Lyndon Johnson High.
We hunted in colleges throughout the region to find influential educators admired by their students and colleagues, whose classrooms serve as forums for social change, whose homes become their classrooms, and, in some cases, whose assignments become homes.
We are living in an age of uncompromising ideological certainty. From the debt ceiling to Medicare to labor relations to most other hot-button issues, the major players choose a side and never give an inch, even if that means governments shut down, bills don’t get paid, or people lose their jobs and their health care.
I’m afraid we’ll have to start with a disappointing statistic: In two decades of teaching, I have slept with exactly one student.
We asked academics, writers, education experts, journalists, and administrators: Without spending a single dollar, how can we improve education right now? Their responses follow.
Who profits from unpaid labor? The Intern and the Boss Go Head to Head.
A message in a bottle.
