Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

• .@NAACP says contact Senator and Reps about DeVos and Trump #NAACP108

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  July 24, 2017

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  I am in Baltimore at the NAACP’s 2017 National Convention. https://www.instagram.com/p/BW5QniOlwDL/?taken-by=professorjvh https://www.instagram.com/p/BW38lGulGSv/?taken-by=professorjvh https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889258199030927360 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889194282925666306 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889120240935858176 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889119669101219841 https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0ekMmF9iv/?taken-by=professorjvh https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0NxaGlHsj/?taken-by=professorjvh Much will happen here that you will probably see in the news soon. I believe the NAACP is reinvigorated to take on education issues. More info very soon. But for now, the NAACP’s National Education Department recently…

  

• Charter Schools: Who Is Working Together to Improve Them?

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  July 10, 2017

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  During the past decade the number of students in charter schools has nearly tripled, with approximately 3.1 million students enrolled in 2016-17. In fact, one in eight black students now attends a charter in the United States. But while the popularity of charters is growing, so is concern about charter schools, particularly in the civil rights community and among grassroots educators…

  

• Breaking News: NEA makes STRONG, patriotic statement on charters

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  July 4, 2017

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  I am not able to blog as much as I have in the past because of my faculty responsibilities at California State, public speaking engagements and contributing behind the scenes to game-changing projects. One of the game-changing projects that I have worked on over the past several months was the NEA Charter Taskforce. As the…

  

• Remade Pile of Words: Will ‘conscious’ charters fail?

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  June 5, 2017

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  About this time 16 years ago I was sitting on the lawn listening to Professor Ray McDermott talk about the work of bees in a hive and the application of their activity to education. It was a PERFECT spring graduate school course. Well, in that course, McDermott also used an interesting pedagogical tool. What Ray would…

  

• Controversial Debate: “Choice is essential to improving education in the US”

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  May 22, 2017

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  Did we win the school choice debate that I almost missed? A Better Chicago, a foundation that seeks to “empower high performing nonprofits that are dramatically improving educational opportunities for low income Chicagoans” hosted a debate at its annual education summit on Thursday May 18, 2017 at Venue SIX10 610 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL.…