2013

• June 18^th School Turnaround: Calling the Bluff of Accountability? 4 comments
• June 16^th Sec. Paige vs. Sen. Wellstone: Testing, Accountability, and Prophetic Pronouncements 3 comments
• June 14^th Expansive School Segregation in Texas: Predicts Accountability Rating 6 comments
• June 13^th Education Spring 25,000 strong and counting 7 comments
• June 11^th Taking tests, to test, to see if students are ready for the test 6 comments
• June 10^th Pawns of Industrialists and Financiers: Anti-Democracy Movement Gripping Education? 7 comments
• June 4^th Harkin proposal for revision of NCLB has arrived 4 comments
• May 29^th Ulterior Motives?: School “Reform”, Rich, Poor, and Land Grabs 3 comments
• May 28^th Students get some relief/freedom from testing in Texas? 2 comments
• May 24^th The Teat: Is Leadership for Educational Equity getting TFA’s dirty work done? 5 comments
• May 23^rd Rejoinder to Questions about Forces Determined to Segregate Higher Education 1 comment
• May 22^nd The Teat: IRS Loopholes/Conspiracy Benefitting School “Reformers”? 7 comments
• May 21^st LA and the Recovery School District approach (SB1718): A P.T. Barnum Circus 7 comments
• May 21^st New Orleans' Recovery School District: The Lie Unveiled 2 comments
• May 20^th Walking Away From High Stakes Tests, A Noble Lie 3 comments
• May 19^th Kiss Michelle Rhee Goodbye 3 comments
• May 17^th Los Chistes: “Say Hello to My Little Friend” 1 comment
• May 17^th Absent?: Native Americans and Standards 3 comments
• May 16^th From the Mailbag: Is Charter Legislation Inconsistent with Democratic Control of Schools? 6 comments
• May 15^th A Trinity of Counter-Narrative: NCLB-Style Standards, High-Stakes Testing, and Accountability 3 comments
• May 14^th DOE agrees to pay legal costs and late fees for not producing records in settlement of LouisianaVoice's public records suit 1 comment
• May 13^th Dear Jennifer: Dissent is the Vibrancy of our Democracy 10 comments
• May 12^th School Turnaround: Talking Head Leaders Aren’t Capable, Our Educators Are 6 comments
• May 9^th Dollar Bill Ya’ll: Speculative Bubble(s) in Education? 9 comments
• May 7^th George H.W. Obama’s education platform: Republicans should be flattered and Democrats ashamed? 6 comments
• May 6^th From the Mailbag: Microaggressed about “Merit” Apartheid 5 comments
• May 3^rd “Merit” Apartheid: Forces Determined to Segregate Higher Education? 6 comments
• April 30^th Blogging Live from San Francisco AERA: Teach For America and Race (clueless?) 5 comments
• April 28^th Next-to-Last Place Ribbon of Honor: Cheapistas in Denial 1 comment
• April 26^th Yo, Stop Jivin’: New Accountability is Retro— Still Rockin Tests 3 comments
• April 25^th Frank Convo with KIPP’s Mike Feinberg: Do you call BS? 5 comments
• April 24^th “Regrettable” that Blacks/Latinos are Naughty: Race/Racism Expunged in US 3 comments
• April 23^rd Ed Policy Unchained: Django, House Negros, and School Reformers 8 comments
• April 22^nd V for Victory: Teach For America, ELLs, and California 2 comments
• April 21^st School Closure and Race Infographic: Something fishy going on in Chicago? 6 comments
• April 19^th What BASIS?: Nepotism and aggrandizement in charters? 2 comments
• April 18^th Top Ten List: Why “choice” demonstrates that money matters 4 comments
• April 12^th The Teat: Where does parent trigger movement get their $? 4 comments
• April 10^th Los Chistes: When Sandy Kress Met Rick Perry 3 comments
• April 9^th CI’s First Infographic: Perks of Preschool 5 comments
• April 8^th New Teach For America study (and meme) debated in WaPo 6 comments
• April 7^th Announcement: Peer-reviewed Urban Education special issue on community-based reforms 2 comments
• April 5^th JVH @ Chicago Education Summit 4/15/13 1 comment
• April 4^th TX House Source: Vouchers go down (again) 0 comments
• April 4^th Can we get teacher evaluation right?: Bill Gates, Tom Brady, and Linda Darling-Hammond 4 comments
• April 3^rd In Ravitch’s Defense: Milwaukee Voucher Study Found Wanting 0 comments
• April 2^nd NEPC: Patrick Wolf Should Apologize 3 comments
• April 2^nd JVH on KUT: “Education Experts Weigh Proposals’ Impact on Students” 2 comments
• April 1^st The Teat: Neoliberals, students first or padding adults’ pockets 9 comments
• March 31^st ¡Viva La Causa!: Happy Birthday César Chávez 4 comments
• March 29^th Letter to Civil Rights and school “choice” advocate (p.s. neoliberals skip this) 13 comments
• March 28^th Teach For America Civil War: A sincere tell-all from New York City 3 comments
• March 27^th Vouchers in Sweden: Scores Fall, Inequality Grows 0 comments
• March 27^th WTF: US “Reformers” arguments are antithesis of Finland 6 comments
• March 26^th Mouth agape: What the data tell us about school closure in Chicago 9 comments
• March 25^th Parent trigger post blowback from Texas Families First 5 comments
• March 25^th A Confederacy of Reformers 1 comment
• March 25^th Parent trigger laws: Wolves in sheep’s clothing and astroturfing 7 comments
• March 24^th Update on Smart ALEC: Education, Privatization, and the Pursuit of Profit 4 comments
• March 21^st Dear college student with exorbitant tuition bill: Blame your legislator 1 comment
• March 20^th Entitlement by “race”: What Abigail Fisher didn’t tell you… 6 comments
• March 20^th Now We Know Why Obama Doesn't Understand VAM 0 comments
• March 18^th Native students, Mutton, $, and Teach For America 0 comments
• March 18^th TAMSA responds to charter proponents in WSJ 0 comments
• March 17^th Teach for America solicits donations, public funds, finder fees while amassing $1 billion fortune, tax records show 0 comments
• March 17^th From the Mailbag: You, sir, are no reformer 6 comments
• March 15^th If it ain’t broke, break it: TX politicians now want NCLB for higher education 3 comments
• March 13^th Charter proponents make small talk in WSJ 4 comments
• March 13^th Ignoring Giraffe on the Highway: Spiraling Inequality Is Really What Ails Education 0 comments
• March 12^th Sí, Se Puede: JVH joins Ravitch’s New Network for Public Education 2 comments
• March 10^th Say Hello!: AERA San Francisco April 2013 3 comments
• March 9^th For Each and Every Child: A New Nation At-Risk Report for 2013? 1 comment
• March 8^th Update: “Fatal Flaws” in Edvance Texas TFA study 3 comments
• March 7^th “Tiger Blood, Man”: A. Ross Thomas Highly Commended Paper 2 comments
• March 6^th Harlem Shake: Rhee, Alter, Jeb, and Rick Perry 0 comments
• March 5^th Onward and Upward: 50,000 visitors and counting! 0 comments
• March 5^th Battle for California: TFA Civil War, ELLs, and Teacher Quality 1 comment
• March 4^th Fold or Rethink: A Teach For America Civil War? 6 comments
• March 1^st Exiting: A sample of charter chains vs public district’s student attrition 3 comments
• February 28^th WaPo: An education reform warning for Democrats 0 comments
• February 27^th Water into Wine?: Jeb Bush, Cheapistas, and Educational Reform 4 comments
• February 26^th Is Teach For America “awesome”? 1 comment
• February 25^th Meta: Education on the cheap? 2 comments
• February 24^th JVH and The Voice: Grad Rates, High-Stakes Testing, and ELs 3 comments
• February 23^rd Derrick Bell 0 comments
• February 22^nd Are charters better on “college readiness” for Latina/os? 3 comments
• February 22^nd Gov. Jerry Brown 1 comment
• February 21^st JVH@TX Senate Ed Committee: Invited Testimony on Charters 3 comments
• February 21^st Bear in the Details: Codifying Community-Based Accountability’s Process 3 comments
• February 20^th The Harvard Crimson: Rethink TFA, Not click “submit” 0 comments
• February 19^th Thoughts for TX House Public Ed Committee on HB5 3 comments
• February 18^th Stanford and Dropouts: “Perry Makes Galveston Disappear” 2 comments
• February 18^th How to Tell if Your Local Charter School Is Avaricious 1 comment
• February 17^th Soiled Legacy: The Birth of No Child Left Behind in Texas 4 comments
• February 15^th Texas-style Community-Based Accountability? 3 comments
• February 15^th Carter G. Woodson 0 comments
• February 14^th Charter School Growth: @ProfessorJVH on KUHF Houston 1 comment
• February 14^th George Washington Carver 0 comments
• February 13^th Julian Vasquez Heilig @ EWA Diving into Data Feb. 25 0 comments
• February 13^th Julián Castro 0 comments
• February 12^th Julian Vasquez Heilig @ TLBC Legislative Summit Feb. 25 0 comments
• February 12^th Could Community Based Accountability Get the Federal Government Out of Our Schools? – Living in Dialogue – Education Week Teacher 1 comment
• February 12^th Nelson Mandela 0 comments
• February 11^th Accountability: California, the land of local control— wait, what?! 4 comments
• February 11^th Maya Angelou 0 comments
• February 10^th Accountability Lecture: Julian Vasquez Heilig @ NYU Feb. 27 1 comment
• February 10^th Public Enemy 1 comment
• February 9^th When you think of school choice— what comes to mind? 5 comments
• February 9^th Martin Luther King Jr. on ghetto schools 0 comments
• February 8^th Michelle Obama 2 comments
• February 8^th Punitive and Unsympathetic: Mathews is SOOOO Wrong on KIPP 1 comment
• February 7^th Franklin D. Roosevelt 0 comments
• February 6^th Help Has Arrived!: How to Banish NCLB’s Narrow Paradigm 5 comments
• February 6^th John Dewey 0 comments
• February 5^th Live School Finance Discussion on KXAN NBC 4 comments
• February 4^th Rep. Debbie Riddle 3 comments
• February 4^th School Finance Lawsuit: Julian Vasquez Heilig @ KXAN NBC Feb. 5 0 comments
• February 4^th The Teat: Teach For America— Expensive & Convincing Inequity 6 comments
• February 4^th John F. Kennedy 0 comments
• February 3^rd Breaking Bad: Tax-Credit Scholarships aka NeoVouchers 1 comment
• February 3^rd Cesar Chavez 0 comments
• February 2^nd School Reform Across Texas: Julian Vasquez Heilig @ Texas Observer Forum Feb 23, 2013 0 comments
• February 2^nd Bush Foundation for Excellence in Education: “Pay to Play, Reap profits”? 6 comments
• February 2^nd Groundhog Day 2013 0 comments
• February 1^st U.S. House Education Workforce Committee: Choice = grow = good? 2 comments
• February 1^st More: Obama facing school “turnaround” civil rights complaints 0 comments
• February 1^st Malcolm X 0 comments
• January 31^st High-stakes Testing at Springfield Elementary 0 comments
• January 31^st Horace Mann 0 comments
• January 31^st Politicians v. Experts: The Latest on “Value-added” Modeling 2 comments
• January 30^th Elbert Hubbard 1 comment
• January 30^th Outsized Federal Spending on Education? 0 comments
• January 29^th The Biggest Testing Scandal of All 0 comments
• January 28^th Blackademics: Julian Vasquez Heilig @ KLRU PBS Feb 13, 2013 0 comments
• January 28^th Sitting Bull 3 comments
• January 28^th Obama facing school “turnaround” civil rights complaints 7 comments
• January 26^th New Orleans Graduation Rate - Miracle . . . or Make-believe? 1 comment
• January 26^th Cloaking Inequity on elite list 1 comment
• January 25^th The High-Stakes Testing Playbook: False Bill of Goods? 1 comment
• January 24^th Kress is Wrong on Tests: Our Accountability System Must Evolve 8 comments
• January 23^rd Times are a-Changin’: My Thoughts in Huff Post 1 comment
• January 20^th The Teat: Be a little more honest KIPP Charter Schools 5 comments
• January 18^th The Teat: ~Half Billion for Teach (Temp) For America 10 comments
• January 17^th The Teat: Sandy (Alexander) Kress 6 comments
• January 15^th MIA: Haney, Federal Grad Data, and the NCES 0 comments
• January 14^th Texas Enrontizes Federal Graduation Data? 8 comments
• January 13^th “Black and Brown”: African American Males in HSIs 1 comment
• January 11^th A Quandary for School Leaders: Equity, High-stakes Testing and Accountability 1 comment
• January 9^th Bullets and “Taxpayer Savings Grants” (AKA vouchers) 1 comment
• January 8^th Fi·ni·to: Vouchers and Educational Equity 2 comments
• January 7^th Michelle Rhee: The Mask Is Off 0 comments
• January 7^th Research Evidence vs Soaring Ideology: School Vouchers and Achievement 1 comment
• January 7^th More On Rocketship Schools, by Barbara Miner 0 comments
• January 6^th Grow some Juevos (eggs) on Charters! 4 comments
• January 5^th Vouchers Deep in the Heart of Texas? 0 comments
• January 4^th I am giddy!!: Community-Based Accountability 9 comments
• January 3^rd Richard Lewis is “Insulted” 0 comments
• January 2^nd Why judges say charters are NOT public schools— students and parents should be nervous 12 comments
• January 1^st Vouchers and School Finance: Saving the Statehouse $? 10 comments

2012

• December 31^st Letter to a Friend: Teach For America Alabama 3 comments
• December 24^th Standards, kissing, and the voice of a teacher 0 comments
• December 20^th From Friend to Foe: Austin 1, IDEA 0 3 comments
• December 17^th Why is a 43% Failure Rate in College Considered College-Prep? 3 comments
• December 17^th Exclusive to Cloaking Inequity: Whiskey, Sandals, Teasing, and High-Stakes Tests 0 comments
• December 13^th “Time to invest in Latino children” 1 comment
• December 11^th Race, Racism, Education, and Lino Graglia 1 comment
• December 10^th Exclusive to Cloaking Inequity: Retro School Finance Testimony 0 comments
• December 9^th Guess which state is 3rd “Dumbest in the Nation”?! 1 comment
• December 8^th Teacher quality: Money matters or matters “somewhere” or not at all 4 comments
• December 7^th Why do hedge funds ADORE charters? Pt. II: 39%+ Return 7 comments
• December 5^th Education Summit: Top Five Most Inane Comments 9 comments
• December 3^rd Animated Conversation: Dewey and Dubya 0 comments
• December 3^rd Exclusive to Cloaking Inequity: A Banned Book About a Charter School? 1 comment
• December 1^st Smart ALEC: Education, Privatization, and the Pursuit of Profit 2 comments
• November 30^th A Roundup: Lean Times, Kool-Aid, and Teach For America 1 comment
• November 28^th Lurking in the Bushes: Peeking at Florida Education Miracle 14 comments
• November 26^th The Current and Dire State of African American Males 0 comments
• November 25^th Race and NCLB Waivers: Moving Around the Chairs? 4 comments
• November 22^nd Teach For America: 2012 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year 1 comment
• November 18^th 1st Annual Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award 2 comments
• November 15^th Forward: Appoint Linda Darling-Hammond 2 comments
• November 13^th Pre-K, a Gold Standard: “You certainly don’t get what you don’t pay for” 2 comments
• November 10^th Conclusion: Are Vouchers a Panacea or Problematic? Pt. VI 2 comments
• November 9^th Church and State: Are Vouchers a Panacea or Problematic? Pt. V 0 comments
• November 8^th Supporting Public Schools: Are Vouchers a Panacea or Problematic? Pt. IV 5 comments
• November 7^th Student Achievement: Are Vouchers a Panacea or Problematic? Pt. III 3 comments
• November 6^th Impact on Access and Segregation: Are Vouchers a Panacea or Problematic? Pt. II 6 comments
• November 4^th Introduction: Are Vouchers a Panacea or Problematic? Pt. I 6 comments
• November 4^th Charter Schools: Dr. Soto, I am disappointed 6 comments
• November 1^st From Rome with Love: International Perspectives and Experiences with Accountability 3 comments
• October 31^st Charter Schools, Dropout, and At-Risk Students 1 comment
• October 30^th Vouchers: Panacea or Problematic? 1 comment
• October 23^rd Why do hedge funds ADORE charters? 11 comments
• October 22^nd Great Hearts Pt. II: Hey! The wealthy need segregated charters too!? 6 comments
• October 19^th “Don’t Believe the Hype” Pt. II: Charter Schools and College Readiness for Blacks 3 comments
• October 17^th Accountability: Are you ready for a new idea? 9 comments
• October 16^th Texas’ record on education: You saw it here first! 1 comment
• October 15^th Racial Bias in Peer Review? 0 comments
• October 14^th Pop the Popcorn: The Revisionaries 2 comments
• October 13^th Q: Can I buy my way into US? A: Charters 0 comments
• October 12^th Fisher v. Texas: Another civil rights movement on the way? 3 comments
• October 11^th Texas: The butt of many jokes 2 comments
• October 10^th “Don’t Believe the Hype”: Charter Schools and College Readiness for Latinos 7 comments
• October 5^th Career and Tech: “Show me the money!” 4 comments
• October 4^th Why is TFA so incensed? 5 comments
• October 4^th It will take 80 more years… 2 comments
• October 1^st NEPC: Turnarounds “More Likely to Cause Upheaval Than to Help” 1 comment
• September 30^th Great Hearts: Hey! The wealthy need segregated charters too!? 7 comments
• September 29^th KIPP and New Zealand: An American export? 1 comment
• September 27^th Education Outcomes: Texas vs. California vs. New York vs. Nation 23 comments
• September 26^th MSNBC Education Nation 2012 Part II: Demanding accountability from charters 11 comments
• September 24^th Another “Dirty Little Secret”?: KIPP, Charters, and Special Education 4 comments
• September 24^th MSNBC Education Nation 2012 Part I: When data gets in the way of ideology 7 comments
• September 20^th Julian Vasquez Heilig on MSNBC Sunday September 23, 2012 between 10 a.m.- 12 p.m. EST 1 comment
• September 20^th “Illusion of Inclusion,” Article about Race and Standards in Harvard Educational Review 4 comments
• September 16^th New Video Q&A Forum 0 comments
• September 13^th Back to School 0 comments
• September 10^th High-Stakes Testing, Accountability and The Simpsons 1 comment
• August 10^th Bad Apples?: Accountability, AYP, and Cheating 2 comments
• August 3^rd “Work Hard, Be Nice?”: A Response to KIPP 8 comments
• August 2^nd Improving Education through Accountability and Evaluation: Lessons from Around the World 0 comments
• July 30^th Teach For America: A review of the evidence (The research that TFA loves to hate…) 8 comments
• July 30^th Inputs and student achievement: An analysis of Latina/o-serving urban elementary schools 3 comments
• July 30^th From Dewey to No Child Left Behind: The evolution and devolution of public arts education 1 comment
• July 30^th Is choice a panacea? An analysis of black secondary student attrition from KIPP, other private charters and urban districts 10 comments
• July 29^th Immigrant DREAMs: The Texas 10% admissions plan, ELL student college choice and academic success 1 comment
• July 29^th Actuating equity?: Historical and contemporary analyses of African American access to selective higher education from Sweatt to the Top 10% Law 5 comments
• July 29^th From Jim Crow to the Top 10% Plan: A historical analysis of Latina/o access to a selective flagship university 5 comments
• July 29^th Alternative certification and Teach For America: The search for high quality teachers 3 comments
• July 29^th Understanding the interaction between high-stakes graduation tests and English language learners 2 comments
• July 29^th As good as advertised?: Tracking urban student progress through high school in an environment of accountability 1 comment
• July 29^th At-risk student averse: Risk management and accountability 5 comments
• July 28^th Accountability Texas-style: The progress and learning of urban minority students in a high-stakes testing context 8 comments