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Actual Educators on Reforming US Assessment Paradigm

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 6 comments

The politicians and talking heads argue that they have it figured out— assessment=high-stakes testing for student, teachers, schools, districts, states, nations, the world, the universe. I have discussed high-stakes testing extensively on Cloaking Inequity and an alternative approach to assessing our schools. I have also discussed “assessment” of teacher performance quite frequently (i.e. Can we get teacher evaluation right?: Bill Gates,

High-Stakes Testing

Weekend Fun: Happy Birthday Diane Ravitch!

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 62 comments

I spent the last few days at an advisory board meeting for the Network for Public Education in New York City. If you haven’t already, join the movement. Look for an invite to an NPE conference in Austin Texas in 2014. Also, Happy Birthday to @DianeRavitch!! I also want to thank Diane for her encouragement this past week to start

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ELs: Transformational power of policy, access, and equality

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 6 comments

The New York Times wrote yesterday in Beyond Black and White, New Force Reshapes South The states with the highest growth in the Latino population over the last decade are in the South, which is also absorbing an influx of people of all races moving in from other parts of the country. This figure from the Urban Institute exhibits the rapid

Only an ostrich…

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 3 comments

Only an ostrich could regard the supposedly neutral alternative as race unconscious. Dissenting Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Fisher v. Texas ruling Please Facebook Like, Tweet, etc below and/or reblog to share this discussion with others. Want to know about Cloaking Inequity’s freshly pressed conversations about educational policy? Click the “Follow blog by email” button in the upper left hand

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Academia Esoteric and Inaccessible?: Not this month

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig One comment

Oft heard critiques of academia is that our work is esoteric and/or inaccessible. Over the past few days I have released two new peer-reviewed studies here at Cloaking Inequity that have implications for school reform: School Turnaround: Calling the Bluff of Accountability? and Expansive School Segregation in Texas: Predicts Accountability Rating. The journal at the top of the field of educational policy is