Only in New Orleans (eBook, PDF)

School Choice and Equity Post-Hurricane Katrina

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Produktbeschreibung

With 2015 marking the 10th commemoration of Hurricane Katrina, education reform in New Orleans continues to garner substantial local, national, and international attention. Advocates and critics alike have continued to cite test scores, new school providers, and different theories of governance in making multiple arguments for and against how contemporary education policy is shaping public education and its role in the rebuilding of the city.
Rather than trying to provide a single, unified account of education reform in New Orleans, the chapters in this volume provide multiple ways of approaching some of the most significant questions around school choice and educational equity that have arisen in the years since Katrina.
This collection of research articles, essays, and journalistic accounts of education reform in New Orleans collectively argues that the extreme makeover of the city’s public schools toward a new market-based model was shaped by many local, historically specific conditions. In consequence, while the city’s schools have been both heralded as a model for other cities and derided as a lesson in the limits of market-based reform, the experience of education reform that has taken place in the city – and its impacts on the lives of students, families, and educators – could have happened only in New Orleans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sense Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789463001007
• Artikelnr.: 43837824

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Only in New Orleans: Editors’ Introduction; The Social and Historical Contexts of Disaster and Recovery; Up to Higher Ground: School Choice and the Promises of Democracy Post-2005; Education and the Public Sphere in New Orleans, 1803–2005: Conflicts over Public Education, Racial Inequality, and Social Status in Pre-Katrina New Orleans; Catholic Schools in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; The New Iconography of the Global City: Displacement and the Residues of Culture in Chicago; Educational Policy as Lived Experience; Excerpt from Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and America’s Struggle to Educate Its Children; Re-Forming the Post-Political City?: Public School Reform and Democratic Practice in Post-Katrina New Orleans; Education Reform in New Orleans: Voices from the Recovery School District; Market-Based Pedagogies: Assessment, Instruction, and Purpose at a “No Excuses” Charter School; The Art of (Re)building Sustainable Educational Opportunity and Equity in New Orleans Public Schools; School Leadership and the Organizational Dynamics of School Reform; Principles of Leading Change: An Inductive Analysis from Post-Katrina New Orleans; Katrina at 10 and Counting: New Orleans’ Public Schools; A Missed Opportunity in Louisiana School Reform:Site Visitation as Diagnostic Tool for School Improvement; The Ideology and Rhetoric of Educational Change; NOLA Aftershock: The Consequences of Disaster Capitalism; Gaining “Choice” and Losing Voice: Is the New Orleans Charter School Takeover a Case of the Emperor’s New Clothes?; Finding Common Language around Educational Equity in a Neoliberali Context; The Looting of the American Dream: The Post-Katrina Rubble of Public Education in Louisiana; How Policymakers Define ‘Evidence’: The Politics of Research Use in New Orleans; Contributors Biography.