Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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I just returned from the 2017 NAACP national convention in Baltimore. Two important events occurred. The first I’m not going to talk about here on Cloaking Inequity until after the NAACP National Board meeting in the fall— I learned my lesson last year :). Second, the NAACP’s Task Force on High Quality Education released a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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