Only in New Orleans: School Choice and Equity Post-Hurricane Katrina

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Up To Higher Ground....Pages 3-15
Education and the Public Sphere in New Orleans, 1803–2005....Pages 17-35
Catholic Schools in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....Pages 37-52
The New Iconography of the Global City....Pages 53-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Excerpt From Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and America’s Struggle to Educate its Children....Pages 71-85
Re-Forming the Post-Political City?....Pages 87-102
Education Reform in New Orleans....Pages 103-108
Market-Based Pedagogies....Pages 109-128
The Art of (Re)Building Sustainable Educational Opportunity and Equity in New Orleans Public Schools....Pages 129-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Principles of Leading Change....Pages 151-172
Katrina at 10 and Counting....Pages 173-189
A Missed Opportunity in Louisiana School Reform....Pages 191-221
Front Matter....Pages 224-224
Nola Aftershock....Pages 225-236
Gaining “Choice” and Losing Voice....Pages 237-265
Finding Common Language around Educational Equity in a Neoliberali Context....Pages 267-276
The Looting of the American Dream....Pages 277-284
How Policymakers Define ‘Evidence’....Pages 285-303
Back Matter....Pages 305-310