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On the Bubble of Success? The Role of LEAP Performance Thresholds in New Orleans Schools
Louisiana, like other states, holds schools accountable for the percentage of students scoring above performance thresholds on state tests. For example, our schools get points toward their School Performance Scores when student…
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Can Value-Added Measures Improve the Assessment of School Quality?
Louisiana’s test-based accountability system relies on School Performance Scores (SPS) that heavily weight levels of student performance. This may seem like an appealing strategy because it is simple and successfully iden…
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Teachers' Perceptions of Schools Before and After Katrina
The structure and governance of New Orleans schools have changed substantially in the nine years since Hurricane Katrina. However, it remains unclear exactly how schools’ practices and cultures have changed over this time per…
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NPR quotes Doug Harris, director of Era-New Orleans
Doug Harris comments on the upward achievement trend in New Orleans schools.
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Lindsay Weixler
Lindsay Bell Weixler is a Non-Resident Research Fellow, and her research interests include early childhood education and child and adolescent development in educational settings. …
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Measuring the Effects of School Closures on Students
The decision to permanently close a school is one of the most controversial decisions in public education. With school closures becoming more common under policies of high-stakes accountability and school choice, it i…
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Robert Santillano
Robert Santillano joined the ERA-New Orleans team as a Senior Research Fellow after spending five years as a research economist at Mathematica Policy Research. …
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