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This digital document is an article from New York Times Upfront, published by Thomson Gale on November 19, 2007. The length of the article is 874 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Injustice in Jena? A tree, a fight, and questions of justice in a small Louisiana town.(NATIONAL)(Jena High School)
Author: Richard G. Jones
Publication: New York Times Upfront (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 19, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 140Issue: 6Page: 10(2)

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This digital document is an article from Jet, published by Thomson Gale on August 20, 2007. The length of the article is 930 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Blacks cry for justice in Louisiana Town rocked by high school racial violence.(NATIONAL REPORT)(Jena town)
Author: Clarence Waldron
Publication: Jet (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 20, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 112Issue: 7Page: 5(3)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Eaton "Tom" Stagg, Jr. (born January 19, 1923), has served as a judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana since his appointment by President Richard M. Nixon in the spring of 1974. Stagg's court is based in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. Stagg was born to Thomas Eaton Stagg, Sr., and the former Beulah Meyer. He graduated from C.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport in 1939. He attended Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama, and Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he completed his bachelor of arts degree in 1943. Stagg was a second lieutenant in the United States Army during World War II. He was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge, Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster for his outstanding service and heroism. ... Read more

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High Stakes Testing, Poverty, and Failure in American Schools is a critical ethnography of one year in one of the most impoverished schools in America. Redbud Elementary School in Redbud, Louisiana has 611 students, 95 percent of whom qualify for free breakfast and free lunch. Many of the children who attend Redbud are the poorest of the poor. Their homes are substandard and include trailers, shotgun houses, and housing project apartments. Some lack electricity, running water, and flooring. Most of the children, 80 percent of whom are African American, live with a single parent, an aunt, or a grandmother who hold minimum-wage jobs. Many of the children do not receive medical or dental care. Their neighborhoods teem with alcohol and drug abuse. Several pupils have witnessed shootings and other types of violence.Louisiana was the first state and is now one of eight states in the nation that mandates failure and grade repetition for elementary and middle school students who do not pass an end-of-year high stakes test. The authors taught third and fourth grade full time for one school year at Redbud Elementary, and this book tells the story of that year.Three major themes are addressed throughout the book: the grinding effects of acute poverty on all aspects of life, the negative consequences of the continuing drive for higher test scores in public schools, and the unreasonable demands placed on children, teachers, and administrators. Other issues surface in the book: the rising growth of for-profit ventures feeding off the accountability movement, the developing alliances between policymakers and corporate profiteers, and the federal government's increasing domination of public schooling.Readers may note similarities between Redbud Elementary and underfunded public schools in their own states. The story of Louisiana's Redbud typifies the unfolding national tragedy in the way poor children are being 'educated' because of self-serving political and corporate interests. ... Read more

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A second look at standardized testing
Increasingly since the early 1980's, standardized testing has been appropriated not as a general measure of institutional comparision, but punnitative measures towards students who can't quite measure up.

Using a case study in Lousianna, Johnson and Johnson demonstrate standardized testing sounds great in political propaganda (what individual wants to be against academic excellence?) but implementation is sharply at odds with the complex reality of learning styles and economic limitations.

Because standardized tests rely on rote memorization and repition of facts in a multiple choice format, they are not the best format for people who have other learning styles. Additionally, different groups of students are educationally tracked (advanced placement, special education) but this system and it's real effects on the individual student are too convienently downplayed during test administration time.

The tests real function is to ultimately provide quickie reassurance to elected officials and parents alike that their communities are 'smart' while continuing to avoid and/or underaddress the curricular and economic issues which would actually enable these students to succed on the same programs. ... Read more

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A study on school and teacher effectiveness in the US, employing both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Using case studies, the authors address, among others, such issues as the relationship between teachers and principals, and the building and sustaining of "more effective schools". ... Read more

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In 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked through an angry crowd and into a school where she changed history.

This is the true story of an extraordinary little girl who helped shape our country when she became the first African-American to attend an all-white school in New Orleans.With simple text and historical photographs, this easy reader explores an amazing moment in history and the courage of a young girl who stayed strong in the face of racism.

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Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, taking lives and livelihoods and displacing thousands. Because the hurricane struck at the beginning of the school year, the city's children were among those most affected. Michael Tisserand, former editor of the alternative cultural newspaper Gambit Weekly, evacuated with his family to New Iberia, Louisiana. Then, rather than waiting to find out when--or if--schools in New Orleans would reopen, Tisserand and other parents persuaded one of his children's teachers, Paul Reynaud, to start a school among the sugarcane fields.

So was born the Sugarcane Academy--as the children themselves named it--and so also began an experience none of Reynaud's pupils will ever forget. This inspiring book shows how a dedicated teacher made the best out of the worst situation, and how the children of New Orleans, of all backgrounds and races, adjusted to Katrina's consequences. ... Read more

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How Katrina Affected NOLA's Children 101
My family just moved to the NOLA area a few months ago, and I'm a teacher, so that's what initially drew me to what I thought was just another "teacher" book.Wrong.This book is an interesting read for anyone, uplifting and disturbing at the same time.I highly recommend it.

Good Book
I though this was a good book. Being from New Iberia I found myself connecting with the book in some ways remembering from experience the ways Hurricanes Katrina and Rita impacted New Iberia. I did seem to get lost in the book at the end, feeling that the arthur rambled on about some things. Otherwise this was a really good book and I would recommend it to New Iberians, or anyone who was impacted by the 2 hurricanes.

Sugarcane Academy
Great book!Everyone should read it to see how Hurricane Katrina affected the children whose homes and schools were damaged or destroyed.

Personal Journalism
This book works on two levels - it's a touching memoir of a father's own journey, paired with the detailed account a journalist can provide of what happened to his city.

inspirational story
Great teachers can contribute so much to society and yet literature too rarely captures and celebrates this form of greatness.Katrina was a terrible storm with terrible consequences, which will be with us for decades, and yet here emerges a story that gives hope and inspiration.Without this tragedy and this book about one facet of the complicated story, we would not have seen into the world of these children and thier wonderful teacher, Paul Reynaud.We would not have had this privilege to see this example of greatness in education--without Paul, these children would not have had as vivid, life-improving, memories and lessons."Celebrate that which you want to see more of" is a favorite adage which the author does an excellent job of fulfilling.Michael Tisserand shows, from the inside, dozens of enjoyable vignettes with subtle and not so subtle consequences.As so many schools are failing our children, here is an example of success which i believe you will enjoy. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM), published by The Santa Fe New Mexican on October 6, 2008. The length of the article is 590 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: FORMER COACH TAKES JOB AT LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY.(Region South)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) (Newspaper)
Date: October 6, 2008
Publisher: The Santa Fe New Mexican
Page: B-1

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Best remembered for The Awakening, which was poorly received by her contemporaries, Chopin also published nearly 100 short stories. Her work is currently praised for its romantic and painterly images and its daring plots and characters.

This title, Kate Chopin, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Kate Chopin through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Kate Chopin, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. ... Read more

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This book of modern critical views provided thought-provoking insight to many, in fact nearly all, of Chopin's literary works, including her many short stories and two novels, the most critically acclaimed being The Awakening.The book helped me to look at Chopin's work with more respect and a totally new perspective and understanding.However, since I have not read all of Chopin's works, some of the analyses were difficult to comprehend, seeing as I had no background for assimulating the information into something coherent.All in all, the novel is a worthwhile read if one is interested in the wonderful works of Kate Chopin. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Business Communication Quarterly, published by Association for Business Communication on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1017 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Developing an MBA study-abroad program at Southeastern Louisiana University.(INNOVATIVE PRACTICES)
Author: Michael Craig Budden
Publication: Business Communication Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Association for Business Communication
Volume: 68Issue: 2Page: 233(4)

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Chronicles a momentous turning point in our nation's history, in the dramatic story of how the South's oldest city, New Orleans, dealt with and handled the desegregation of the public schools. ... Read more

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an informative book about regional civil rights history
Liva Baker sets one major goal for herself in this book, and accomplishes it admirably. That goal is to craft a reassessment, which conveys to the reader that the desegregation of New Orleans public schools in the early 1960s was just as politically charged and fraught with controversy as any of the busing crises that came to the fore in the 1970s. Prior to Baker's reappraisal, the prevailing notion was that New Orleans public schools had been integrated in a reasonably peaceful fashion. In reality, the situation was far tenser, more complicated and explosive that many might have believed. Through evocative and engaging sketches of the major figures of New Orleans school desegregation, such as Creole lawyer A.P. Tureaud and courageous 5th Circuit Federal Judge J. Skelley Wright, Baker shows that, but for the actions of a few dedicated figures, New Orleans would have remained under the spell of Jim Crow. While Baker's portraits of Tureaud and Wright are wonderfully readable, her portrait of Judge Leander Perez, the race-baiting delta boss of Plaquemines Parish, is equally engrossing. The bold and conscientious actions of Tureaud and Wright are counterposed with the racist antics of Perez, who invested tremendous amounts of money in a public relations to enflame passions about desegregation. In sum, Baker has offered an accurate and insightful book that is a must for anyone interested in the regional history of America's civil rights movement. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Jet, published by Thomson Gale on October 8, 2007. The length of the article is 1073 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Thousands rally in Jena.(NATIONAL REPORT)(Jena High School)
Author: Kevin Chappell
Publication: Jet (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 8, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 112Issue: 14Page: 6(4)

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remarkable
Hankla's prose is exquisite. This book is wonderful, I recommend it to readers of poetry and fiction. ... Read more