Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Texas politicians continue to be interested in finding elegant ways to reduce funding for public schools. Now they are aiming at the gems of our educational system— our colleges and universities. No Child Left Behind is coming to a Texas college and university near you. Yes, the Legislature that birthed NCLB wants to apply their…
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There is no shortage of hype from charter chains these days. I recently read a column published March 9 in the Wall Street Journal authored by Charles Cook and Terrence Moore. They sought to make their column relevant for the current education policy conversation by critiquing proposals for changing high-stakes exit testing in the Texas…
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The public discourse about education is full of “zip code should not determine destiny” memes. The reasoning is— if we ignore the giraffe driving down the highway (poverty), it won’t exist or matter. The challenge with treating the symptoms of a disease rather than the causes, is that the outcomes remain inconsistent. For example, if…
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I have had the privilege to interact with Diane Ravitch quite regularly over the past year or so. Thus I was honored when she and Anthony Cody approached me about joining the new Network for Public Education. The mission of the organization: The Network for Public Education is an advocacy group whose goal is to fight…
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If you are interested in education, attending the AERA conference each year is a must. The conference begins April 29. It is like being a kid in a candy store. What is AERA? From the website: The American Educational Research Association (AERA), founded in 1916, is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related…
Cloaking Inequity 
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