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The New Orleans school sys­tem is dif­fer­ent from any oth­er. At Edu­ca­tion Research Alliance we try to under­stand how stu­dent out­comes are influ­enced by the system’s key fea­tures: the OneApp and open school choice, char­ter school providers, the new teach­ers and lead­ers, and the inten­sive test-based account­abil­i­ty. Oth­er stud­ies focus on how the sys­tem works as a whole, plus top­ics such as school finance, ear­ly child­hood edu­ca­tion, and col­lege access.

Outcomes

Our work exam­ines the effects of school reforms on a range of stu­dent out­comes and across dif­fer­ent stu­dent groups. We also eval­u­ate how post-reform changes to the city’s edu­ca­tion land­scape shape these outcomes.

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Accountability

Per­haps the most dis­tinc­tive fea­ture of the New Orleans school sys­tem is that low-per­form­ing schools have been reg­u­lar­ly closed or tak­en over by the state Recov­ery School Dis­trict (RSD). We study how these deci­sions are made and the influ­ence of those deci­sions on students.

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Teachers

Teach­ers and lead­ers are the core of any school sys­tem and the post-Kat­ri­na school reforms dra­mat­i­cal­ly reshaped the New Orleans’ edu­ca­tor work­force. Our research tries to under­stand who the teach­ers and lead­ers are and how state and local edu­ca­tion poli­cies influ­ence their practices.

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Enrollment + School Access

New Orleans is more reliant on Char­ter Man­age­ment Orga­ni­za­tions (CMOs) than any oth­er city in the coun­try. Here, char­ters ARE the sys­tem. Our research agen­da tries to under­stand CMO poli­cies and prac­tices and how these shape the options avail­able to fam­i­lies in New Orleans. We also study mech­a­nisms of enroll­ment and how fam­i­lies and stu­dents inter­act with these sys­tems and how th impact on stu­dent experience.

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Equity

Equi­ty is at the core of our work. We study how dif­fer­ent aspects of the New Orleans edu­ca­tion land­scape affect all stu­dents with a focus on advanc­ing research that sheds light on the dis­par­i­ties of edu­ca­tion and how they impact stu­dents from his­tor­i­cal­ly mar­gin­al­ized groups.

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Additional Topics

Explore our research on school vouch­ers, ear­ly child­hood edu­ca­tion, edu­ca­tion finance, and oth­er topics.

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Student Experience

This research includes pub­li­ca­tions that inter­sect with under­stand­ing the stu­dent expe­ri­ence. This includes all research asso­ci­at­ed with the New Orleans City­wide Youth Sur­vey, the arts, and dis­ci­pline prac­tices and outcomes.

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