Charles Payne

Charles Payne teaches African-American studies, history and sociology at Duke University and is the author of So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools (forthcoming).

Katrina's Last Victims?

December 14, 2006

The New Orleans school system, re-created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is beginning to look like something designed by FEMA.

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