The garden path : the miseducation of a city

""The Garden Path is about views of education reform from inside and outside the schoolhouse, which is the book's epicenter. The book narrates education within the lives of schooling's primary stakeholders: students, families, teachers and administrators. It also critically examines this latest wave of reform using the New Orleans post-Katrina context as a stage to examine different experiences and positions in the contentious battles around education. This fictional narrative is primarily a story of two high school students' (Loren and Katura) journey to college and an administrator's (Dr. Isaac Boyd) efforts to get them there"--Foreword, p. [11]."@en
"The Garden Path provides a fascinating look into the school reform movement that swept New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In this well paced example of creative nonfiction, Andre Perry offers the perspective of a highly educated, powerful man and a spirited teenaged boy. Dr. Boyd is the CEO of the University of New Orleans Charter Network and Loren Wise is a ninth-grader who becomes class president and so much more. The book raises important questions about the effects of standardized testing as well as the motives of various stakeholders in the school reform debate, and the creati."@en