One year after Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of thousands of displaced students remain scattered in schools across the nation. In Houston, which has the largest concentration of evacuees, two schools continue helping displaced students adjust to new surroundings -- and honor what was lost or left behind.
For a high school on South Dakota's Rosebud Reservation, culturally responsive curriculum may be the best antidote to the violence, poverty and growing cultural disconnect hindering student success.
Veteran teacher Dottie Blais writes openly about a question that too often is left unspoken and unanswered: How does a teacher's whiteness get in the way of successful multicultural education?