Each semester, the Cowen Institute hosts Tulane undergraduates that are completing their required internship through the Center for Public Service. This is a guest post written by a research intern offering up his perspective on his experience, some of his most important research findings, and his thoughts on public education in New Orleans.
Each semester, the Cowen Institute hosts Tulane undergraduates that are completing their required internship through the Center for Public Service. This is a guest post written by a research intern offering up his perspective on his experience, some of his most important research findings, and his thoughts on public education in New Orleans.
Just before Mardi Gras, the Recovery School District (RSD) released its new annual school Equity Report. The Equity Report is one of the RSD’s commitments to New Orleans outlined last August, and the goal of the new report is to measure and make transparent the “things that make a great school truly great.”
In November 2011, the Brookings Institution introduced an interactive web application called the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI), which rated the top 25 largest school districts on policies and practices related to school choice. Despite being on the forefront of the movement toward school choice, New Orleans was not one of the school systems included in the ECCI due to its relatively small size. I decided to use the scoring guide to the ECCI to calculate my own grade for New Orleans.
Each semester, the Cowen Institute hosts Tulane undergrads that are completing their required internship through the Center for Public Service. This is a guest post written by a Research intern offering up his perspective on his experience, some of his most important research findings, and his thoughts on public education in New Orleans.
Each semester, the Cowen Institute hosts Tulane undergrads that are completing their required internship through the Center for Public Service. This is a guest post written by a Research intern offering up his perspective on his experience, some of his most important research findings, and his thoughts on public education in New Orleans.
In our recent publication, Case Studies of School Choice and Open Enrollment in Four Cities, we suggest that education stakeholders in New Orleans could learn from the successes and failures of school choice and open enrollment policies in other cities across the country. As the Recovery School District (RSD) prepares to implement its new citywide enrollment system, it should consider what lessons can be gleaned from past experiences in New Orleans as well as in cities that have successfully implemented an open enrollment public school system such as Cambridge, San Diego, and New York City.
Two weeks ago, the Recovery School District (RSD) released a list of the six direct-run high schools and three direct-run elementary schools it plans to phase out or convert to charters next school year. This announcement marks a positive move towards increased transparency by the RSD. However, the RSD’s plan to phase out these schools still leaves a number of students in chronically failing high schools over the next two to three years. The RSD must explicitly identify what steps it is taking to invest in and support these students whose schools have already failed them for far too long.
An Intern’s Perspective: Amy Holiday
| May 11, 2012I come from a family of educators and have spent my four years in New Orleans getting involved with as much of the “Great Education Experiment” here as possible. So the opportunity to intern this semester with the Cowen Institute was obviously a really exciting one for me, and a great way to cap off [...]