Teaching About Katrina


	In the Classroom Teaching about Katrina The U.S. government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina and the media's portrayal of this tragedy has brought many deep and difficult issues in America to the surface. The below resources are intended to help educators explore the issues of race, class, media bias, and the many other issues that contributed to the inaction and reaction to the Katrina disaster. Resources NEW! Audio interview with Enid Lee, world renowned anti-racist, multicultural educator, on teaching about Hurricane Katrina in the classroom. Part I: When You Raise Money, Raise Questions(MP3) Part II: Lessons of History and of Hope (MP3) Part III: Teaching Katrina and Meeting NCLB Standards (MP3) Edited Transcript (including all three parts of the interview with Enid Lee and a list of Nation articles on Katrina) To comment on this interview or send a message directly to Enid Lee, visit her message board. *Lessons* Rethinking Schools Lesson on Katrina, Washin' Away. New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCORE) curriculumon Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. Louisana Voices Folklife in Education Project Unit on Katrina, In the Wake of the Hurricanes. *Media/Articles* Democracy Nowinterview about "Katrina Six Months Later," activists discuss grassroots disaster relief, evictions, racism and the struggle to help those left behind. "New Orleans and the Third World" an article from ZNet. Click here to read an article by the Associated Press, which discloses the secret transcripts and video footage showing President Bush being briefed the day before Hurricane Katrina hit. *Organizations* Katrina on the Ground (KOTG), an initiative organized by college students and grassroots activists, will implement a plan of outreach that harnesses the collective power of students within the African American community and directs it to provide immediate, tangible recovery assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina (Katrina). More>> Students at the Center New Orleans features stories of middle and high school students from New Orleans about Katrina.

Click here for a timeline of FEMA failures.

Democracy Now invited Palestinian-American Poet Suheir Hammad to read her poem on Hurricane Katrina.

The following is an excerpt from her poem: “Evacuated as if criminal // Rescued by neighbors // Shot by soldiers // Adamant they belong // The rest of the world can now see // What I have seen // Do not look away // The rest of the world lives here too // In America”

To read the poem click here in full click here.