Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

  • Wow. 2014 is already gone. Allot happened in education policy in 2014… Are the corporate reformers finally in retreat? There is some optimism out there that the public is finally seeing through their “civil rights” rhetoric and understanding that their true focus is control, profit, and privatization. With your input and support, Cloaking Inequity, our…

    Happy New Year!: 2014 Education Reform in Review (your champagne break)
  • I was asked by NPR to send along my predictions for education in 2015. They asked: We are asking a wide variety of education experts  about predictions for 2015. I was wondering if you had 1 or 2 predictions for next year, or outcomes or situations to watch around the country based on your research.…

    It’s That Time: 2015 New Year’s Resolutions for Education
  • The United States consists of lands that have been considered home to American Indians for thousands of years. Given this continuous relationship to the land there are orientations within American Indian culture that not only honor nature but that promote a relationship of engagement and harmony with the earth that calls upon one’s observational and…

    #NativeAmerican Ways of Educating
  • After several decades, Teach For America, a program that sends inexperienced teachers (typically only 5 weeks of summer training) before they are shipped off to teach on a (primarily) temporary basis in America’s toughest schools, is facing some headwind. Alumni are increasingly speaking out against the organization, many of whom who joined Teach For America…

    Is TFA Cloaking Inequity?: Discussing Headwind on Al Jazeera
  • Is there a recipe for social media? What are the secrets? Should I blog? I was recently asked to respond to a series of questions submitted by a group of teachers. I recorded my responses to them on YouTube. See the questions and responses below. How (and why) did you develop an interest in social media?…

    Responding to Teachers’ Questions: A Social Media Recipe for Educators?

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