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1 online resource |
Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title page; Imprints page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Roadmap to This Book; 1 Power, Vested Interests, and the Politics of Institutional Reform; Vested Interests; Vested Interests and Opposition to Reform; Vested Interests and the Politics of Blocking; Vested Interests in Education; Teachers Unions; School Districts; Reformers in Education; The Struggle for Education Reform; The Second Face of Power; A Natural Experiment; 2 Before Katrina: The Normal Politics of Reform; The Social Context; Early Reform Efforts at the Local Level; State-Driven Reform |
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Background: Early StateLed Efforts to Reform Louisiana EducationMike Foster, Cecil Picard, and Charter Reform; Mike Foster, Leslie Jacobs, and Paul Pastorek; A New Millennium?; The Adoption of Act 9; Reform in a PowerConstrained World; 3 After Katrina: Reform with the Lid Off; The Aftermath; Act 35: The Opportunity to Start Anew; From Incrementalists to Radicals; A Public Framing, Elemental Ideas; Networks and Institution-Building; Entrepreneurial Leadership; A Revolution Achieved; 4 Protecting the Revolution: Toward a New Normal; For Opponents, A Unifying Idea; The Return that Wasn't |
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Vested Interests: Out with the Old, in with the NewElectoral Power as a Protector of Reform: The Fight for BESE; Electoral Power as a Protector of Reform: The Fight for THE OPSB; The Revolution Matures; Climate Change; The Dawning of a New Era; Power, Protection, and the Future; 5 Learning from Katrina; Vested Interests and Normal Politics in New Orleans; The Rise of the Problem-Solvers; The Emergence of a Reform Community; Corporate Interests and Disaster Capitalism; Other Districts Affected by Katrina; Political Science and Institutional Reform; Problem-Solving as a Universal Potential |
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The Inevitability of PowerConclusion; Index |
Summary |
Treating Hurricane Katrina as a natural experiment, Moe explores New Orleans education reform to reveal how political power shapes efforts to fix failing institutions |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Educational change -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Political aspects
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Education and state -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
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EDUCATION -- Essays.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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EDUCATION -- Reference.
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Education and state
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Educational change
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Social aspects
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Louisiana -- New Orleans
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Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781108689250 |
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1108689256 |
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9781108646659 |
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1108646654 |
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1108740383 |
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9781108740388 |
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