Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Unbelievably, I have travelled more than 20,000 miles over the past five weeks— Brazil, Princeton, New York City, Las Vegas and Oregon. Imagine a scenario where I showed up at the airport and the airline employee gave me the following choices: You can fly on an airplane today with a pilot with 30 hours of…
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As I am sitting here at the National Charter Schools Conference in DC, I am stunned at the lack of experience on many of the “expert” panels. As a charter school leader, I am starting my 15th year working with a charter that was started in 15 years ago. Having worked in top leadership at the…
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The politicians and talking heads argue that they have it figured out— assessment=high-stakes testing for student, teachers, schools, districts, states, nations, the world, the universe. I have discussed high-stakes testing extensively on Cloaking Inequity and an alternative approach to assessing our schools. I have also discussed “assessment” of teacher performance quite frequently (i.e. Can we get…
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I spent the last few days at an advisory board meeting for the Network for Public Education in New York City. If you haven’t already, join the movement. Look for an invite to an NPE conference in Austin Texas in 2014. Also, Happy Birthday to @DianeRavitch!! I also want to thank Diane for her encouragement…
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ELs: Transformational power of policy, access, and equality
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The New York Times wrote yesterday in Beyond Black and White, New Force Reshapes South The states with the highest growth in the Latino population over the last decade are in the South, which is also absorbing an influx of people of all races moving in from other parts of the country. This figure from the…
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