Friday Afternoon Maps: New Orleans, Race & School Locations
A few weeks back, I noticed several tweets about this recent article in Harvard Education Review which takes a look at racial politics and the rebuilding of New Orleans in the Post-Katrina era.
Here’s the dropbox link tweeted by Diane Ravitch:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11116752/Buras_2011-Race_Charter_Schools_Conscious_Capitalism.pdf.pdf
The article is by Kristen Buras of Georgia State University. Buras, like at least a few others, points out that Hurricane Katrina forced the greatest housing displacement in poor black neighborhoods of New Orleans. But, perhaps more disturbing was that in the post Katrina period, redevelopment… and especially redevelopment of the new, mixed delivery schooling system largely ignored those same areas, leading to a system where access