Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Last call to attend this year’s Latino Legacy Weekend in DC during Memorial Day weekend! I attended the free networking and knowledge event when it was at Stanford, Northwestern and UT-Austin. I will attend again this year at the University of Maryland. For more info visit http://www.latinolegacyweekend.org/. You can register here Please Facebook Like, Tweet, etc below and/or…
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[Tests] are the fastest way to terrify any child with five letters outside of just whispering the word ‘clown.’ Also read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/videos/watch-john-oliver-explore-insanity-of-standardized-testing-20150504#ixzz3ZQsMbGol See also Who’s the William Wallace of testing: @JessedHagopian or Liz King? and “Opt out now”: The Seattle NAACP revives the legacy W.E.B Du Bois, demands an end to Common Core testing For all of Cloaking Inequity’s posts on…
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Yesterday, Liz King, a Teach For America alum and policy analyst for The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, led 12 civil rights organizations into a national battle against student and parents. She loves testing. Liz King believes taking a test is a “civil right” you are required to have. In contrast, hundreds of thousands of…
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Originally posted on I AM AN EDUCATOR: “…the Opt Out movement is a vital component of the Black Lives Matter movement and other struggles for social justice in our region. Using standardized tests to label Black people and immigrants ‘lesser,’ while systematically under-funding their schools, has a long and ugly history in this country.” -Gerald…
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In the post, Exclusive: Students Tear Gassed By Police While Protesting School Inequality I asked Are you ready for more protests? School “reformers” have argued that the Baltimore uprising is a call for more market-based education. I argue the opposite is actually true. First, Baltimore. Then, Chile. I was involved in crafting the Network for Public Education’s response to the Baltimore Uprising.…
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