In the wake of the disaster, state politicians unleashed a bottom-up revolution in the city’s schools beyond even our Education Secretary Michael Gove’s wildest dreams. The breaking of the levees breached a mindset that excused failure. A bureaucratic system run by local officials was torn up and handed over to a hotchpotch of philanthropists, entrepreneurs, ambitious teachers and even local universities. Parents were given freedom over where to send their children, unions were sidelined, andSunday, 12th September 2010
After the deluge
I was very struck by an article in today’sSunday Telegraph about what happened to the education system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck and destroyed all the schools. New Orleans schools used to be infamous, among the worst in America. Generations of children were crushed by low expectations, poor teaching, incompetent management and corruption. No more, it seems. Ian Birrell reports:
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