New Orleans This New Orleans high school on elegant Esplanade Avenue is called “John Mac,” short for John McDonogh High School. This was my “district” high school as a teenager in New Orleans. The imposing building isn’t two miles from Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, City Park, and Bayou St. John. But, somehow in the televised …
Category: Education
Lack of Outreach is Dooming College Income Based Diversity Initiatives
New Orleans I told you so. I hate to say this, but just for the record, we’ll get this out of the way. A couple of years ago when Harvard, followed by a small group of other high profile private colleges, announced an income blind admission policy and offered a free education to students coming …
A+ Schools Could be the Tool to Save Public Schools, Students & Teachers
New Orleans A+ Arkansas, initiated by the Thea Foundation and its director, Paul Leopoulos, may be proving that there are some real tools for improving public schools, the educational grasp and performance of students, regardless of race and income, and salvage the careers and idealism of teachers while doing so. How do they pull off …