Clips

(Clips = work that I’ve made; reviews and press = work that other people made about my book.) 

• • Excerpt from The Secret History of Home Economics: Cross your legs, stretch your hymen, toss your ambition (LitHub)

From the USA Today Network:

• • Learning to live with water, again: Lumbee face hard decisions
  • Private pain, public policy: Pregnancy, loss and the choices they made
  • They lost loved ones in a mass shooting in Charleston. Now, they fight to stop the next one

Some stories from 2018-21 I particularly like: 

• • Gifted education has a race problem. Can it be fixed? (NBC News/The Hechinger Report)
  • A rural charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the deep South (USA Today/The Hechinger Report)

From NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune:

• • Higher ground: What happened to KIPP New Orleans grads after high school? (Education Writers Association fellowship grant, Louisiana Press Association features-writing award)
  • Forty years after the fall of Saigon, Vietnamese are at home in New Orleans
  • Farah’s journey: An Iraqi-American adjusts to the Trump era
  • How 3 top New Orleans schools keep students out
  • Hurricane Katrina at 10: From scholarship student to charter school teacher, a young man helps New Orleans come back. Sidebar: Vast changes in New Orleans’ teaching workforce as education revolution upends city
  • Cheating at Landry-Walker High: first story, most recent
  • Sean’s story: Expelled from school, a senior struggles to graduate

Download Danielle’s résumé.

Reporting in 2010 or so. Photograph by Wei Guo

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