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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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Posted inElementary to High School

A high school quarterback comes back big after a lost year

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl December 20, 2021February 9, 2022

NEW ORLEANS — For quarterback Raphael Reed, this school year has been one step forward, then two steps back. But during a Thursday-night football game in October, he felt nothing but forward momentum. This story also appeared in ESPN and The Undefeated As the clock ran out that night, Reed, 16, tossed a perfect touchdown […]

Posted inCoronavirus and Education

A principal leaves his beloved school after an intense year

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl August 24, 2021August 26, 2021
Posted inCritical Condition: The Students the Pandemic Hit Hardest

The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl June 27, 2020October 21, 2020
kids in court
Posted inNews

No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl March 23, 2020October 21, 2020
African American teachers
Posted inNews

Two percent of teachers are black men. A city is trying to recruit more.

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl September 10, 2019October 21, 2020
Posted inNews

New Orleans loses teachers at double the rate of other cities like it

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl September 9, 2019October 21, 2020
Posted inArts Education, Elementary to High School, High School Reform, New Orleans, News, The South

Marching in Mardi Gras, a New Orleans school that once struggled shows off

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl March 3, 2019October 21, 2020
Leona Tate, 64, who helped to desegregate the Deep South when she was six years old.
Posted inElementary to High School

As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools. Now she wants others to learn that history

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl January 1, 2019October 21, 2020
Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports.
Posted inElementary to High School

Getting a GED while still enrolled in high school

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl March 5, 2018October 21, 2020
Domonique Crosby raises her hand in calculus class at George Washington Carver High School.
Posted inNews

Held back, but not helped

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl January 8, 2018October 21, 2020

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