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Hurst, Marianne D. – Education Week, 2005
As American schools pitch in with an array of charitable projects in response to the tsunami in South Asia, experts say educators and students should consider carefully how they can most effectively support relief groups, avoid fund-raising scams, and incorporate their efforts into service-learning programs. When students returned to school after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Natural Disasters, Fund Raising
Kirylo, James D. – Childhood Education, 2005
New Orleans, fondly known in better days for its spectacular cuisine, cool jazz, and good times, was the leading story on television news broadcasts the world over when a massive hurricane came. As Katrina took its destructive path, culminating in the devastating rupture of ill-prepared levee systems, the world was riveted by stories about the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Schools, Natural Disasters, Weather
Oder, Norman; Rogers, Michael – Library Journal, 2005
The New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) is coming back from Hurricane Katrina--thanks to the State Library of Louisiana, NOPL in mid-September set up a temporary web site (nutrias.org). Unfortunately like many libraries in the Gulf region, it sustained significant damage and retained hope for renewal. This article reports the extent of damage…
Descriptors: Government Libraries, Public Libraries, Library Administration, Natural Disasters
Nath, Baiju K. – Online Submission, 2006
Disasters are becoming the key concern of many nations. The term disaster usually meant for natural calamities. There of course may be a human hand behind each of the disasters, whether its' impact is small or large. Disasters can be categorized into natural and man made. In the case of natural disasters there may be some natural indicators to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Management Systems, Natural Disasters, Holistic Approach
Ashby, Nicole, Ed. – US Department of Education, 2006
""The Achiever" is a monthly newsletter designed expressly for parents and community leaders. Each issue contains news and information about school improvement in the United States. Highlights of this issue include: (1) $17 Million Awarded in Advanced Placement Grants; (2) After the Storm: New Orleans School Maintains High Standard…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Advanced Placement, Educational Finance, Grants
Hardy, Lawrence – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
The emotional trauma of recent events may never go away. A million people were uprooted by Hurricane Katrina, including an estimated 372,000 children of school age. Three weeks later, Hurricane Rita slammed into the Texas-Louisiana coastline, forcing thousands more to evacuate. Acute symptoms of trauma range from confusion, nightmares, and…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Children, Mental Health, Poverty

Cashman, Timothy G.; Asing-Cashman, Joyce G. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2006
This qualitative study strives to provide a greater understanding of the past, current, and future state of education in Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami. The researchers' key objectives are to provide additional insight to educators of the far-reaching impact of the tsunami via a website they created. Rather than concentrate on the same sort of…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Researchers, Natural Disasters
Lesnick, Joy; Schultz, Katherine – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2006
On December 26, 2004, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake--the most powerful in more than 40 years--struck deep under the Indian Ocean. It was centered about 100 miles southwest off the coast of Aceh, Indonesia, and triggered massive tsunamis across the coasts of Asia and Africa. In Aceh province, located at the northwest tip of the island of Sumatra in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Disasters, College Faculty, Graduate Students
Dolan, Thomas G. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
Most colleges and universities are poorly prepared to efficiently address and manage crises. That is the finding of a survey, the results of which were in the January/February issue of the publication, "Change." The authors point to Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 terrorist attacks as wake-up calls to higher education and maintain both that campus…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Terrorism, Crisis Management, Emergency Programs
Betts, Brenda – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2006
This article focuses on the experiences and survival of displaced children in four large migrations in U.S. history. The chaos and despair caused by Hurricane Katrina are reminders that the displacement and survival of children are timely and relevant topics for the social studies curriculum. Hurricane Katrina was the worst natural disaster in…
Descriptors: United States History, Natural Disasters, Social Studies, Children
Dixon, Nancy – CEA Forum, 2007
This essay is entitled "The 'I' of the Storm" in order to stress the very personal nature of teaching in the immediate, post-Katrina semester of Fall 2005. The University of New Orleans (UNO) was the only university in the city to open that semester, and many traumatized instructors, the author included, were serving the thousands of…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, College English, English Instruction, Higher Education
Bauer, Patricia J.; Burch, Melissa M.; Van Abbema, Dana L.; Ackil, Jennifer K. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2007
Mother-child dyads who experienced a devastating tornado talked about the storm and about two affectively more positive or neutral events at each of two time points: 4 months and 10 months after the storm. The conversations were analyzed to determine whether mothers and/or children's contributions differed as a function of event type and whether…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mothers, Memory, Natural Disasters
Buchanan, Teresa K.; Benedict, Joan – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2007
After the hurricanes, faculty asked the students to help with the relief efforts in different ways. Most students volunteered to work in shelters directly with individual or groups of children, youths, and adults. After their experiences, they wrote brief reflections about what they had done. Their comments show that they developed a better…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Volunteers, Student Participation
American National Red Cross, Washington, DC. – 1992
This preparedness guide explains and describes tornadoes, and includes safety information for schools. A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The guide explains the cause of tornadoes, provides diagrams of how they form, describes variations of tornadoes, and classifies tornadoes by…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Emergency Programs, Natural Disasters, Safety
Arya, A. S. – 1987
This manual presents, in illustrated form, the protective measures needed to save educational buildings from the effects of earthquakes. The information may be used at the community level as a guide to the construction of earthquake resistant educational buildings. Primarily, the manual deals with the construction techniques used for school…
Descriptors: Building Design, Earthquakes, Educational Facilities Design, Emergency Programs