Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

  • 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…

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

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

    Controversial Debate: “Choice is essential to improving education in the US”
  • ReinventED is a competition in innovative pedagogy organized by the College of Education (COE) at California State University, Sacramento. The goal is to support innovation and ingenuity in education that revolutionizes how people learn, teach, and organize learning environments. The scope of the competition is intentionally broad to attract innovators from all walks of life,…

    ReinventED: A competition to reignite education
  • With increased attention and focus given by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betty Devos to charter schools as an alternative to neighborhood public schools, it is crucial to analyze whether or not students who attend charter schools actually display better education performance results than public school students. While standardized test measures are not…

    National and Large City NAEP Results: Neighborhood Schools 23, Charters 4

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