New Orleans public schools has seen exceptional gains in student achievement, graduation and college outcomes according to a new Tulane University study conducted by the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA- New Orleans).
The study comes nine years post-Katrina and offers the first in-depth analysis of how school reform has affected the long-term outcomes for students. Research compared pre-Katrina and post-Katrina seeing substantial increases all across the board.
Before Hurricane Katrina the New Orleans school district was ranked as the second-lowest in the state when measuring student achievement. Following the storm control of the schools were taken over by nonprofit charter organizations.
Improvement for all students including disadvantaged ones saw increases in higher test scores, high school graduation, college admittance, college persistence and college graduation.
The authors of the study caution that the reforms might not necessarily garner the same results in other districts.
Read more at: http://news.tulane.edu/pr/study-shows-new-orleans-post-katrina-school-reforms-boosted-student-achievement-long-term
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