Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

  • Looking forward to being back in Austin in two weeks to speak at a Legislative Briefing and discuss community-based accountability. The Texas AFT, Austin Voices for Education and Youth, and Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment (TAMSA) invite you to an Education Briefing entitled New Options for Assessment and Accountability. Now that Congress has (theoretically) left NCLB test-and-punish…

    Upcoming Legislative Briefing: New Options for Assessment & Accountability
  • It’s National Charter School Week. Have you heard about the 2015-16 Teach For America first-year teacher who was asked by a charter school to literally construct the building too? I did ask her in a podcast if she had also been trained as a general construction contractor by TFA during her 5-weeks of training in the…

    Charter school requires teachers to construct school
  • Leaving UT-Austin for a full professor position at California State University Sacramento was a big life change in 2014. In my new role as Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership I sit on the leadership team of the College. As a result, I am often a sponge for operational information. I was struck by two…

    Dear Diary: Are leaders born or made?
  • Diane Ravitch, a parent, and Teach For Alums discuss LIVE on Truth For America whether a cyber war is being waged against TFA critiques, how communities can influence conversations about TFA, the role of TFA in the privatization of education movement, and the (in)adequacy of TFA’s summer training and pedagogical approaches. Truth For America is a…

    .@DianeRavitch et al. talk Teach For America LIVE
  • On the Rick Smith Show we discussed school finance lawsuits, the false promise of charters, privatization of the $1 Trillion education spending in the US, market based reform, North Carolina bathrooms (oh, and their education “reforms”) and more. On Air Now @ProfessorJVH talking #Education in #NorthCarolina #TBATs @BadassTeachersA #BATsradio — Rick Smith (@RickSmithShow) April 25, 2016…

    Talking School Choice and NC Insanity on @RickSmithShow

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