New Orleans' 5-graders envision future
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Since they're going to be the Class of 2015, we asked fifth-graders at the newly opened Langston Hughes Academy Charter School to tell us what their city will look like on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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Armed with college degrees and buoyed with seemingly boundless energy, many young professionals have arrived in New Orleans and taken up work two years after Hurrican Katrina. Hanging over these young people, however, is a persistent question. Will they stay?
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Here was the idea: Students from low-income inner-city backgrounds could perform as well as better-off suburban students &#151; if they had a school that gave them proper support.
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A new superintendent is vowing to transform the battered public school system in New Orleans.
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Standing in the ruins of the Lower  Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd  a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing  high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.
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A trailblazing Chicago school starts economic education early to give inner-city black kids a leg up
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The Christian Science Monitor - It may be at the far end of the globe, but when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans last year, many from Australia's northern port city of Darwin saw the past flash before their eyes.
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The theme of championship week has been curiosity; concern over the healing process of New Orleans, a great city that was turned inside out by Hurricane Katrina.
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The ravages of Katrina are still evident everywhere you turn. But there is reason for optimism in New Orleans. A city that once laughed at its colorful and inept political culture has found its civic pride.
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Four out of five youngsters think people should be able to live anywhere they choose, a BBC global survey suggests.
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Pupils promised five hours of "high quality" cultural activities each week under government plans
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Since hurricane Katrina, the city has been determined to reform one of the nation's worst school districts.
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Teenagers wanting to emulate New  York's firefighters, lionized for their heroism on Sept. 11,  2001, can begin their training in public school as part of a  new fire department-themed school that opened on Monday.
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By Chastity Pratt, Detroit Free Press  Dec. 15--The 30 children in Thoris Marie Walton's fourth-grade class at Detroit's Fairbanks Elementary get homework every single night.
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By Kim North Shine, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 18--There are students at Warren Cousino and Sterling Heights high schools who don't get many chances to leave the school for learning.
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Standing in the ruins of the Lower   Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd   a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing   high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.
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OHSWEKEN, Ontario  - In a grey, shed-like building on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve in southern Ontario, Esenogwas Jacobs is getting her kindergarten students ready to head home for the day.