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Katy Reckdahl

Katy Reckdahl is a regular contributor to the Hechinger Report, the New Orleans Advocate | Times-Picayune and WDSU television and writes frequently for the New York Times and The Weather Channel. She has won more than two-dozen first-place awards from the New Orleans Press Club and received several national awards, including a James Aronson Award and a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for print stories and three Emmy Awards for her TV-documentary work.

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Second grade teacher Lynnon Carney helps a student with math at Arise Academy.
Posted inElementary to High School

Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl October 17, 2017October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl January 25, 2017June 7, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

Twitter and Instagram are letting kids pick (and plan) schoolyard fights even when they aren’t in class

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl October 6, 2016October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, The South

Can a nonprofit turn around a school in a juvenile detention facility?

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl August 8, 2016October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

Leading by example: Black male teachers make students ‘feel proud’

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl December 15, 2015October 21, 2020
Deshon Leggett, 16, is determined to be a mechanic but will need some help getting there after he finishes his bike-shop apprenticeship.
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

Forget shop class: New Orleans is trying to train black youth for a constantly shifting job market

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl August 17, 2015October 21, 2020
For Devante Lee, the year that Katrina happened basically doesn’t exist. He believes that others his age also avoid looking back. Only now, a decade later, are advocates and researchers beginning to grasp the lasting effects of this post-storm duress. (Photograph by Tyrone Turner)
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

The lost children of Katrina

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl April 2, 2015October 21, 2020
Carmen Demourelle and her youngest son, Steven Alexander. (Photo: Cheryl Gerber)
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

Who is the biggest victim of America’s prison boom?

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl December 18, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

New Orleans charter schools scramble to teach non-English speakers

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl March 23, 2014October 21, 2020

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