Kendell Goes Back To School

dc.contributor.authorDennis, Alicia
dc.contributor.authorSchindehette, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:00:34Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:00:34Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractTen-year-old Kendell Lewis hops down from the steps of his trailer to take a visitor on a child's-eye tour of what remains, and what is gone, from the streets of his old neighborhood. "I had friends there, lots of them," he says outside an abandoned house with boarded-up windows in the Lower Ninth Ward. "Kadija, Vernon, Tyris and Ariane. But I don't get to play with them now." Farther up the block, collapsed shells of houses lie in multicolored heaps. The park where, Kendell says, "I used to hit a ball with my bat" is now deserted, grown over with weeds taller than a little boy. On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, everywhere in this neighborhood near where the levee broke it's the same
dc.description.urihttps://people.com/tbd/kendell-goes-back-to-school/#1
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/inle-jso2
dc.identifier.citationDennis, Alicia and Schindehette, Susan (2007) Kendell Goes Back To School. People.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 816
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22803
dc.subjectTeaching
dc.subjectCommunity Redevelopment
dc.subjectHurricane Katrina
dc.subjectLower Ninth Ward
dc.subjectrefurbished school building
dc.subjectNew Orleans
dc.subjectpublic schools
dc.titleKendell Goes Back To School
dc.typeArticle

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