Only in New Orleans : : school choice and equity post-Hurricane Katrina / / edited by Luis Mirón, Brian R. Beabout and Joseph L. Boselovic.

• TeilnehmendeR: Mirón, Luis,; Beabout, Brian R.,; Boselovic, Joseph L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts ;, Taipei, Taiwan : : Sense Publishers,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Language: English
• Series: Educational Futures, Rethinking Theory and Practice , 63
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Luis Mirón , Brian R. Beabout and Joseph L. Boselovic -- Up to Higher Ground / Luis Mirón and Mickey Lauria -- Education and the Public Sphere in New Orleans, 1803–2005 / Joseph L. Boselovic -- Catholic Schools in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina / Carol Ann MacGregor and Brian Fitzpatrick -- The New Iconography of the Global City / Cameron McCarthy and Brenda Nyandiko Sanya -- Excerpt from Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and America’s Struggle to Educate Its Children / Sarah Carr -- Re-Forming the Post-Political City? / Alice Huff -- Education Reform in New Orleans / Max S. Ciolino , James D. Kirylo , Luis Mirón and Kelly Frazier -- Market-Based Pedagogies / Beth Sondel -- The Art of (Re)building Sustainable Educational Opportunity and Equity in New Orleans Public Schools / Paul Green -- Principles of Leading Change / Brian R. Beabout -- Katrina at 10 and Counting / Ira Bogotch and Scott Bauer -- A Missed Opportunity in Louisiana School Reform / Chiasson Mary Shannon -- Nola Aftershock / Edward P. St. John -- Gaining “Choice” and Losing Voice / Steven L. Nelson -- Finding Common Language around Educational Equity in a Neoliberali Context / Lauren Bierbaum -- The Looting of the American Dream / John C. Fischetti and James D. Kirylo -- How Policymakers Define ‘Evidence’ / Huriya Jabbar , Priya Goel La Londe , Elizabeth DeBray , Janelle Scott and Christopher Lubienski -- Contributors Biography / Luis Mirón , Brian R. Beabout and Joseph L. Boselovic.