Lab Rats
Welcome to New Orleans—America’s urban education laboratory
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Do you dream of being part of our nation’s greatest experiment in urban education? I know I do—which I why I was thrilled to be the recipient of a recent Google ad inviting me toTeach, Live and Love New Orleans. Welcome to NOLA, reader, where you’ll find plenty of *that je ne sais quoi, that elan, that bon temps* but absolutely pas d’excuses. In other words, it’s time for us to button up our lab coats and get busy. We’ve got a city to colonize an achievement gap to crush.
Whiter and brighter (and an outsider)The first thing you’ll notice about our laboratory of innovation is that most of the other lab technicians are, to use abons mots, whiter than a lab coat. That’s because while NOLA, as we’ll insist upon calling it, abounds in *locavore markets and stores,* you won’t find many locavore teachers here these days. Nor will you findmany African American teachers period, despite the fact that New Orleans remains amajority/minority city. They’re long gone, fired (illegally, as it turns out), in the wake of Lab Rats | EduShyster:
