Parallel Journeys: Teaching, Learning, and Hurricanes

Hurricane Katrina becomes a metaphor for the current educational landscape in Meyer’s honest look at how, in spite of good intentions, children have little shelter against the damaging power of NCLB. Like New Orleans, those who set educational policy and those who teach in individual classrooms have the power to rise from the wreckage and shape a new world, exploiting our strengths, establishing constructive dialogue, and offering all students hope.