Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

  • There is a growing crescendo in support and opposition of Teach For America from its alumni base. For all of Cloaking Inequity’s posts on Teach For America go here. Also see my piece in the New York Times on Teach For America here. Howard Blume from the LA Times recently wrote two pieces about TFA. The…

    From the Mailbag: Teach For America Defector Speaks
  • Welcome to the third installment of Cloaking Inequity’s new comic series Breaking News. Today the comic represents Kevin Welner’s “The Dirty Dozen: How Charter Schools Influence Student Enrollment. Dr. Welner is a professor of education policy at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education and director of the National Education Policy Center. What are the…

    Breaking News: Kevin Welner’s Charter School Dirty Dozen
  • On Monday Cloaking Inequity discussed “Oh, crap”: Accountability is Arbitrary and Political. So how about a Breaking News comic to start the weekend? What are Tony Bennet’s current job offers? Considering his smashing success in all that he does. Please Facebook Like, Tweet, etc below and/or reblog to share this discussion with others. Want to know about…

    Breaking News: Tony Bennett’s job offers
  • Welcome to the first installment of Cloaking Inequity’s new comic series Breaking News. Today the comic represents Julian Vasquez Heilig’s new school accountability formula. For all of CI’s post on accountability click here. Also check out Community-Based Accountability a new idea for the revision of NCLB that focuses community empowerment and local control. Please Facebook Like, Tweet,…

    Breaking News: Revision of NCLB— Problem Solved
  • Are data and statistics bulletproof for informing educational policy— objective and not subjective? This is an eternal debate between the positivist and the constructivist. For context, I am a constructivist —a reformed positivist who took 8 statistics courses during my doctoral program. To enter the constructivist v. positivist fray, I introduce a new peer-reviewed paper that…

    Are Data and Statistics Bulletproof in Educational Policy Development?

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