In The News
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The Cowen Institute releases the 2010 State of Public Education in New Orleans Report
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Join Us For a Briefing on the 2010 State of Public Education in New Orleans Report
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Before & After Katrina: Black Education in New Orleans
Click here for more information on the forum being held at Tulane on March 10.
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Committee Weighs In on School Facilities Master Plan
Press
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Carville lauds education as one of “Brightest Spots” in NOLA
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Gov. Jindal Pushing a Law to Give Schools and Districts More Flexibility
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Drew Brees and Marshall Faulk are Raising Money for a State-of-the-Art track and field at Carver High School
Read about their work for the 9th Ward Field of Dreams here.
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A State Legislative Audit finds the RSD’s Books in Better Shape, But Still Flawed








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Shannon Jones, Executive Director
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Emily Remington, Program Manager, College Readiness Initiatives
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Felicia Brown, Program Manager, University-Based Initiatives

Felicia has a background in university administration, specifically in the areas of community affairs and program development, as well as student success and academic affairs, working with both undergraduate and graduate student populations. She has served as Assistant Vice Provost for Graduate Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and as Special Assistant to the Dean at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. Her previous experience in national and federal public policy and governmental affairs includes serving as legislative assistant to former U.S. Senator John C. Danforth (R/MO) and as a political/field staffer with the Democratic National Committee. Felicia brings extensive knowledge of the charter school movement from her tenure as director of governance and corporate initiatives with the former DC Public Charter School Resource Center. At the Cowen Institute, she is responsible for coordinating Tulane’s resources and constituent groups to support education reform efforts at the school-level as well as with the education nonprofit community.
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Laura Mogg, Senior Research Analyst
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Oscar A. Barbarin, Ph.D., Cowen Institute Fellow
Dr. Barbarin is the Hertz Endowed Chair in the Department of Psychology at Tulane University in New Orleans. He earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Rutgers University in 1975 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in social psychology at Stanford University in 1983. His research has focused on the social and familial determinants of ethnic and gender achievement gaps beginning in early childhood. He has developed ABLE, a mental health screening tool for young children. He is principal investigator of the PAS initiative, a national study whose focus is the socio-emotional a and academic development of boys of color. His work on children of African descent extends to a 20 year longitudinal study of the effects of poverty and violence on child development in South Africa. He served as President of the American Orthopsychiatric Association from 2001-2003 and was elected to the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Child Development. He recently joined the team as the first Cowen Institute Fellow.
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