ERIC Number: ED612874
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 28
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What Should We Really Learn from New Orleans after the Storm? 10 Years after Katrina
Baker, Bruce D.
Network for Public Education
In July of 2018, the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans released a comprehensive, summative longitudinal report on the effects on student outcomes of the package of reforms implemented in New Orleans following hurricane Katrina in the fall of 2005. This policy brief reviews the findings of this report by Douglas Harris and Matthew Larsen, offers critique of their methods and interpretation of findings and attempts to provide broader policy context for those findings. In summary, Harris and Larsen find significant positive effects of Post-Katrina New Orleans school reforms on short-term student achievement measures, and longer term college attendance, persistence and completion. They attribute these results to the "market-based" reforms adopted following Katrina, and go to great lengths to dismiss or downplay threats to the validity of this conclusion. But for many reasons, that attribution may be misguided.
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, College Attendance, Academic Persistence, Graduation, Program Effectiveness, Poverty, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Resource Allocation, Governance, Educational Needs, Change Strategies, Educational Quality, Equal Education, Low Income Students, At Risk Students, Students with Disabilities, Minority Group Students, English Language Learners, Language Arts, Mathematics Achievement, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Network for Public Education (NPE)
Identifiers - Location: Louisiana (New Orleans)
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