Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Education reformers are getting creative. It looks like the whole Trump and DeVos school choice charters vouchers show me your friends and I’ll show you who you are thing is really messing with their mojo and momentum. So now they are getting creative. They are leaning on TV networks to push their agenda with telethons…
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Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Here is an event you won’t want to miss: CONSIDER IT: SCHOOL CHOICE AND THE CASES FOR TRADITIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION AND CHARTER SCHOOLS September 19 @ 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM Hilton Reading Berks County Community Foundation Panelists: Carol Corbett Burris: Executive Director of the Network for Public Education…
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This week Harvard’s Education Next released its yearly ranking of “Top Education Policy People and Organizations on Social Media” I am excited to say that the Network for Public Education placed four folks in the top 16! #1 Diane Ravitch #4 Xian Barrett #8 Julian Vasquez Heilig #16 Anthony Cody I am also honored to…
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Considering the rapid growth of charter schools, it’s important for the public conversations about school choice to distinguish fact from rhetoric and sloganeering. For instance, proponents of charter schools, such as Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, claim charter schools advance racial integration of children and give parents options for “voluntary integration.” Is this true? More than sixty…
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What makes for an interesting debate/conversation/panel about charter schools? I think the event at the upcoming Coalition of Community Charter Schools Conference in New York City #ICSS17 probably qualifies. After we completed the Intelligence Squared charter school debate (click above for NPR syndicated version), Steve Zimmerman struck up a conversation with me about having a…
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