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What Do We Need to Know? A Research Agenda for New Orleans Schools
There are arguably three big questions about the New Orleans school system: First, how well is it working overall? Second, how are the various pieces of the system working? Third, how can the system be made to work better? These …
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Going to Great Lengths: How Parents Chose Schools Before and After the Post-Katrina School Reforms
One of the key elements of the New Orleans school model is it provides almost completely open enrollment, giving parents more options and possibly increasing competition among schools. Using data from 2004 and 2011, the Era te…