The authors of this brief examine the implementation and effectiveness of a New Orleans job training program that helped lower-skilled, unemployed, and underemployed individuals train for and find skilled jobs in particular industries.
Lower-skilled workers face a shrinking pool of employment opportunities. To combat this, the city of New Orleans developed a job training program that helped these individuals train for and find skilled jobs in particular industries. The authors of this report examine that program's implementation and effectiveness and perform a cost-benefit analysis. Findings include improved wage growth and a positive return on investment.
Since 2012, Louisiana has been developing policies to improve student outcomes in the areas of early childhood education, K–12 academics, graduation pathways, and teacher preparation. This report, part of a four-part series on the implementation of these reforms, focuses on Louisiana's strategies for K–12 teacher preparation.
Since 2012, Louisiana has been developing policies to improve student outcomes in the areas of early childhood education, K–12 academics, teacher preparation, and graduation pathways. This report, part of a four-part series on the implementation and outcomes of these reforms, focuses on Louisiana's strategies to support and improve K–12 academics.
This brief highlights findings from a series of four reports that examine Louisiana's education policy strategies, how they are being implemented, and how those policy actions are related to successful student outcomes.
Since 2012, Louisiana has been developing policies to improve student outcomes in the areas of early childhood education, K–12 academics, teacher preparation, and graduation pathways. This report, part of a four-part series on the implementation and outcomes of these reforms, focuses on the state's efforts to support and improve early childhood education and what implementation challenges have emerged.
Since 2012, Louisiana has been developing policies to improve student outcomes in the areas of early childhood education, K–12 academics, teacher preparation, and graduation pathways. This report, part of a four-part series on the implementation and outcomes of these reforms, focuses on Louisiana's implementation of high school graduation pathways and associated efforts to improve college readiness, career readiness, and access to financial aid.
Louisiana has received recent attention for some of its new education policies and promising early results. This report provides an in-depth description of Louisiana's approach to improving student outcomes since 2012. The authors examine the state's strategies and potential challenges in four areas: early childhood education, K–12 academics, K–12 teacher preparation, and graduation pathways.
Researchers examined school choice outcomes in New Orleans following 2005's Hurricane Katrina, including exit patterns of students across sectors and school types in New Orleans and the destination schools of mobile students.
In this report, RAND researchers provide evidence that teachers in Louisiana are thinking about and implementing their state standards in ways that are significantly different from teachers in other states and examine Louisiana Department of Education strategies that might be contributing to these results.
This paper analyzes student mobility in post-Katrina New Orleans between and within the various sectors and school types using a multinomial framework.
The Leading Educators Fellowship program is dedicated to training promising mid-career educators to lead their colleagues in pursuit of student success. This report presents findings from preliminary analyses of the program's impacts on student achievement and teacher retention in both Louisiana and Missouri in the 2011–2012 through 2013–2014 school years for teachers who are program fellows and for the teachers mentored by fellows.
This article examines the effectiveness of a technology-based algebra curriculum in a wide variety of middle schools and high schools in seven states.
Describes a decisionmaking framework designed to help the Louisiana community of Shreveport-Bossier prioritize its investments in children and families. The framework is focused on the intersection of needs, assets, and best practices and can be applied in many other settings.
In 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita displaced more than one-fourth of Louisiana public school students. This article examines how these students fared in the first academic year following the storms.
This research brief summarizes a study of the movements of Louisiana public school students in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and of the short-term effects of these displaced students on the state's public education system.
