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Only in New Orleans

School Choice and Equity Post-Hurricane Katrina

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Editors:
  1. Luis Mirón

    1. Loyola University, New Orleans, USA

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  2. Brian R. Beabout

    1. University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA

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  3. Joseph L. Boselovic

    1. Loyola University, New Orleans, USA

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  • Bringing together the perspectives of scholars, educators, and journalists focused on education reform in post-Katrina New Orleans, this book interrogates questions concerning school choice and educational equity to show that what has happened in the city over the past decade could happen only in New Orleans.

Part of the book series: Educational Futures (EDUFUT, volume 63)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Social and Historical Contexts of Disaster and Recovery

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Up To Higher Ground

      • Luis Mirón, Mickey Lauria
      Pages 3-15

    3. Education and the Public Sphere in New Orleans, 1803–2005

      • Joseph L. Boselovic
      Pages 17-35

    4. Catholic Schools in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

      • Carol Ann Macgregor, Brian Fitzpatrick
      Pages 37-52

    5. The New Iconography of the Global City

      • Cameron Mccarthy, Brenda Nyandiko Sanya
      Pages 53-67

  3. Educational Policy as Lived Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Excerpt From Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and America’s Struggle to Educate its Children

      • Sarah Carr
      Pages 71-85

    3. Re-Forming the Post-Political City?

      • Alice Huff
      Pages 87-102

    4. Education Reform in New Orleans

      • Max S. Ciolino, James D. Kirylo, Luis Mirón, Kelly Frazier
      Pages 103-108

    5. Market-Based Pedagogies

      • Beth Sondel
      Pages 109-128

    6. The Art of (Re)Building Sustainable Educational Opportunity and Equity in New Orleans Public Schools

      • Paul Green
      Pages 129-148

  4. School Leadership and the Organizational Dynamics of School Reform

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Principles of Leading Change

      • Brian R. Beabout
      Pages 151-172

    3. Katrina at 10 and Counting

      • Ira Bogotch, Scott Bauer
      Pages 173-189

    4. A Missed Opportunity in Louisiana School Reform

      • Mary Shannon Chiasson
      Pages 191-221

  5. The Ideology and Rhetoric of Educational Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 224-224
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    2. Nola Aftershock

      • Edward P. St. John
      Pages 225-236

    3. Gaining “Choice” and Losing Voice

      • Steven L. Nelson
      Pages 237-265

    4. Finding Common Language around Educational Equity in a Neoliberali Context

      • Lauren Bierbaum
      Pages 267-276
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Loyola University, New Orleans, USA

    Luis Mirón, Joseph L. Boselovic

  • University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA

    Brian R. Beabout

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Only in New Orleans

  • Book Subtitle: School Choice and Equity Post-Hurricane Katrina

  • Editors: Luis Mirón, Brian R. Beabout, Joseph L. Boselovic

  • Series Title: Educational Futures

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-100-7

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-100-7Published: 22 July 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9864

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9872

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 310

  • Topics: Education, general

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