According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, New Orleans’ rate of homelessness is more than four times the national average.

Alison Gros wanted to come up with a way to get her fourth-grade special education students at Andrew Jackson Elementary School excited for preparing for their Louisiana Educational Assessment Program tests. She and her student teacher assistant decided to eat worms.

To help preserve the legacy of the neighborhood, a group of seventh- and eighth-grade students at Coghill School have documented the area’s history through photographs and interviews with several residents as part of the Pontchartrain Park Photography Project.

Of the 125 playgrounds in the New Orleans area before Hurricane Katrina, only 90 have reopened. With summer right around the corner, some Youth and Recreation Committee council members stressed the importance of getting as many playgrounds and recreational facilities open as possible.

I am one of the pickiest eaters you’ll ever meet. If I have a five-course meal, I will eat each item one by one. I never mix my foods; in fact I don’t even allow different food items on my plate to touch. But somehow I came to allow myself to sample some insects.
Bug Appetit [...]

One of the newest feathered additions to the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas finally has a name.

My big take-away from the first day of The New York Times Student Journalism Institute: I can enjoy the Big Easy without becoming an easy target.