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New Report
Lessons From the Big Easy ([link removed])
Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, destroying much of the city’s public school system and forcing most of the city’s 455,000 residents to flee as levees failed, sending torrents of water through neighborhoods. In the years that followed, New Orleans became the site of an unprecedented education experiment as the city’s 65,000-student school system evolved into the nation’s first district-wide system of independent public charter schools.

In a new FutureEd report, Education Lessons from New Orleans, Two Decades After Katrina ([link removed]) , FutureEd Director Thomas Toch and writer Erik Robelen draw on two decades of research into the New Orleans experience to explain the consequences of citywide competition for students, the challenges it presented, and how Louisiana education leaders addressed them. The New Orleans story offers valuable insights for today’s education policymakers facing declining student achievement and a rapid expansion of school choice.
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Other Recent Work

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K-12 Public School Enrollment Declines, Explained ([link removed])
Public school enrollment is declining nationwide and is expected to keep falling. But the enrollment story is complicated—trends vary widely by race, grade level, and geography. FutureEd Policy Analyst Tara Moon examines ([link removed]) the drivers of the decline, the nuances in the numbers, and what they mean for schools.


Commentary
What States Can Teach Us About Trump’s New Federal School Choice Program ([link removed])
The Trump administration’s new federal tax-credit scholarship program comes as states have rapidly expanded their own private school choice initiatives. In a piece for The 74 ([link removed]) , Toch and Senior Policy Analyst Bella DiMarco draw on those state experiences to highlight lessons about costs, equity, and oversight that federal policymakers should heed as they design and implement the program.
* See also: Directional Signals: A New Analysis of the Evolving Private School Choice Landscape ([link removed])

Commentary
To Improve Schools, Let’s Build a New System for Measuring Them ([link removed])
Public school performance needs a measurement system that reflects what truly matters, not just test scores. In this FutureEd commentary for Education Week ([link removed]) , Van Schoales makes the case for a new, research-based model that emphasizes measures of student learning growth, school climate, advanced course work and more.
* See also: Quality Check: The New, Best Way to Measure School Performance ([link removed])

From the Archive
* An Important Piece of the Student Motivation Puzzle ([link removed])
* Teacher Mindsets: How Educators’ Perspectives Shape Student Success ([link removed])
* School-Based Health Care is Key to Helping Student Succeed ([link removed])
* Restorative Practices for School Discipline, Explained ([link removed])

Higher Education


** By the Numbers
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15%

Projected decline in international student enrollment at U.S. colleges and universities this fall
$7 billion

Estimated loss to the U.S. economy from the decline


Source: NAFSA
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The latest leadership changes in the education sector

Carolyne Quintana, former deputy chancellor for teaching and learning at New York City Public Schools, has been appointed chief executive officer at Teaching Matters ([link removed]) .

Patrick Sims has been promoted from senior director of policy and programs to vice president of policy and programs at PIE Network ([link removed]) .
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