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About the Center for Education Reform

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In the emerging landscape of education reform, the Center for Education Reform is the leading voice for structural and sustainable changes that can dramatically improve educational opportunities for decades to come. Our guiding purpose is to improve the accuracy and quality of discourse and decisions about education reform, leading to fundamental policy changes that make a difference long after news and election cycles have ended.

As part of our core mission, the Center works on three primary fronts:

1. Generating and sharing leading ideas and information

2. Supporting and enabling grassroots activism

3. Protecting and stimulating media coverage and issue accuracy

www.edreform.com

Education Reform: The New Orleans School Experiment

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After publishing this video we realized we gave an all too one-sided view on the topic. To give the other side a voice, we highly recommend you to listen to this conversion with Diane Ravitch:
https://www.econtalk.org/diane-ravitch-on-slaying-goliath/

This video was made with the support of the Lingoda. For the Lingoda Language Sprint go to http://bit.ly/SproutsSprint and type in “JOIN102”.

In 2005, Katrina, a massive hurricane, struck the city of New Orleans and destroyed virtually everything, including all schools. As a result, everyone left the city, kids stopped going to school, the school board lost its funding, the teachers lost their jobs leading to the unions losing all of their members. It was a true disaster for everyone.
Then the city’s government came up with a great idea…

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Read the entire script here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1caPqItG46DEJ_l06bQNuUk_jJP_snijoLYs1RDU15LY/edit?usp=sharing

Sources:

Podcast:
Terry Moe on Educational Reform, Katrina, and Hidden Power
https://www.econtalk.org/terry-moe-on-educational-reform-katrina-and-hidden-power/

Papers:
https://educationresearchalliancenola.org/publications/what-effect-did-the-new-orleans-school-reforms-have-on-student-achievement-high-school-graduation-and-college-outcomes

https://educationresearchalliancenola.org/publications/what-effect-did-the-new-orleans-school-reforms-have-on-student-achievement-high-school-graduation-and-college-outcomes

Two Phases of Power
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/sipa/U6800/readings-sm/bachrach.pdf

Quote:
Former education secretary Arne Duncan once said that Hurricane Katrina was the “best thing” that ever happened to education in the city (though he later apologized).