Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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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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Only an ostrich could regard the supposedly neutral alternative as race unconscious. Dissenting Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Fisher v. Texas ruling Please Facebook Like, Tweet, etc below and/or reblog to share this discussion with others. Want to know about Cloaking Inequity’s freshly pressed conversations about educational policy? Click the “Follow blog by email” button…
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Academia Esoteric and Inaccessible?: Not this month
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Oft heard critiques of academia is that our work is esoteric and/or inaccessible. Over the past few days I have released two new peer-reviewed studies here at Cloaking Inequity that have implications for school reform: School Turnaround: Calling the Bluff of Accountability? and Expansive School Segregation in Texas: Predicts Accountability Rating. The journal at the top of the…
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After successive years of failing to meet high-stakes testing and accountability mandates required by NCLB (2002), schools across the nation have undergone numerous restructuring practices in an effort to “turnaround” their failure. When schools fail to demonstrate AYP and receive successive years of unacceptable accountability ratings, NCLB stipulates additional sanctions be applied to the school…
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