Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Did TFA teachers feel like teaching in the corps was their Civil Rights moment? When did they change their mind? Were Teach For America special education teachers ready to teach on the first day of school? What did they do when a mysterious $7,000 bill appeared in their mailbox from a TFA partner? This and…
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Congrats to my alma mater Stanford Graduate School of Education for #1 U.S. News and World Report ranking of Education Graduate Schools in 2017! https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/424393268864905216
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School choice is so seductive. Like a chocolate cake with the double chocolate frosting. There are many forms of school choice, and the media has been telling us for a few decades now that they are all fantastic alternatives to democratically-controlled local schools. One of the most prominent of forms of choice is school vouchers.…
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On March 10th, the California State Board of Education will vote on an appeal petition to allow or deny the expansion of a Rocketship campus in the Monument Corridor of the Mt. Diablo School District in Contra Costa County, California. Both District and County School boards have issued unanimous denials of the petition. And despite strong community opposition, Rocketship still pressed…
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One of the interesting changes in my career during the past two years has been the evolution from being primarily a policy analyst to profiling various solutions in the education policy sphere. A colleague recently called this new forum “punditing” —however as I watch the evolution of various careers in academia it is clear that…
Cloaking Inequity 
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