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Hope against hope : three schools, one city, and the struggle to educate America's children
\"Geraldlynn is a lively, astute 14-year-old. Her family, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, returns home to find a radically altered public education system. Geraldlynns parents hope their daughter's new school will prepare her college-but the teenager has ideals and ambitions of her own. Aidan is a fresh-faced Harvard grad drawn to New Orleans by the possibility of bringing change to a flood-ravaged city. He teaches at an ambitious charter school with a group of newcomers determined to show the world they can use science, data, and hard work to build a model school. Mary Laurie is a veteran educator who becomes principal of one of the first public high schools to reopen after Katrina. Laurie and her staff find they must fight each day not only to educate the city's teenagers, but to keep the Walker community safe and whole. In this powerful narrative non-fiction debut, the lives of these three characters provide readers with a vivid and sobering portrait of education in twenty-first-century America. Hope Against Hope works in the same tradition as Random Family and There Are No Children Here to capture the challenges of growing up and learning in a troubled world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Visible Hand: Markets, Politics, and Regulation in Post-Katrina New Orleans
In this article Huriya Jabbar examines how the regulatory environment in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans has influenced choice, incentives, and competition among schools. While previous research has highlighted the mechanisms of competition and individual choice--the \"invisible hand\"--and the creation of markets in education, Jabbar focuses here on how markets, especially those in education, are also governed by the \"visible\" hand of the government, which, through regulations and policies, influences how they operate and the outcomes they generate. She compares two governing agencies to examine how the different policy environments in New Orleans shaped school leaders' perceptions of competition and their behavioral responses to it. Her findings indicate that governing agencies constrain or enable school leaders' ability to respond to market pressures, sometimes mitigating and other times exacerbating inequities in the marketplace. These findings can inform other school districts across the United States as they adopt market-based reforms, providing directions for ensuring that such policies are equitable.
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Oil, floods, and fish: the social role of environmental scientists
The environmental and social effects of hurricane-related flooding and the recent oil disaster in southeastern Louisiana, and the current global crisis in world fisheries, are case studies that reveal the need for scientific work that is carried out and disseminated with conscious attention paid to the important relationship between scientists, other experts and scholars such as social scientists, and community members and policy makers. In this paper, I discuss the following questions facing environmental scientists: How do we produce rigorous science that also has policy implications and import for the lives and livelihoods of citizens? How do we communicate this science to those policy makers and citizens in a way that maintains the integrity of the science and the scientist while also respecting the concerns of the audience? How do we design our research programs to be useful to surrounding communities? How can we involve those communities and policy makers in our research in effective and respectful ways? Is it possible to carry out scientifically rigorous civically engaged research? There is increasing interest within academia in incorporating social, civic, and policy concerns into teaching and research. Environmental scientists must continue to think deeply about our roles in the civic arena.
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