A couple who rented out half of their double asks the city to consider small operators instead of using lotteries or banning residential Airbnbs altogether.
Author Archives: Folwell Dunbar
Posted inOpinion, Uncategorized
The Benefits of Practicing What We Teach
As students return to area schools this month, Folwell Dunbar highlights some teachers whose careers outside of the classroom enhances their work inside.
Posted inOpinion, Schools
Student testing for the 21st century: finding alternatives to forced choice
Better options are out there, or on the way.
Posted inOpinion, Schools
How about creating schools with more purpose than test scores and letter grades?
Students benefit, but so do their communities.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Florida Panhandle’s paradise lost: ‘New Urbanism’ gone awry
Boyhood beachcomber worries about Bywater
Posted inOpinion, Schools
School choice since Katrina: the promises made, the challenges ahead
New Orleans emerges as the nation’s boldest experiment in school innovation.
Posted inOpinion, Schools
Nostalgia undermines struggle to make so-so schools truly excellent
What the older generation remembers from their own school days is increasingly irrelevant to a changing world.
Posted inOpinion, Schools
Saving the art of teaching from the science of education
Modern educators are taking Taylorism off the assembly line and applying it to the classroom.
Posted inOpinion, Schools
Memo to charters: Steal, pirate, plagiarize the private school playbook
Private prep school have forged many of secondary education’s “best practices.” Folwell Dunbar says the best public charter schools are smart to be copycats.
Posted inOpinion
Potholes, oh my potholes: An ode to crumbling city streets
I’ve been to Peru and old Pompeii, Along the Inca Trail and the Appian Way, Up slippery slopes and down treacherous ravines, But I’ve never seen streets like in New Orleans! Apart from the levees, the city is flat; Ain’t no topography to know where yat. Yet the people down here all drive SUV’s To […]