Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

• Soiled Legacy: The Birth of No Child Left Behind in Texas

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  February 17, 2013

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  Accountability, High-Stakes Testing

  There have been several articles describing the “Don’t Mess with Texas Revolt” against its own approach to high-stakes testing and accountability that was legislated in No Child Left Behind. Many Texans, regardless of their political stripes, are fed up with the current approach to high-stakes testing and accountability birthed here in the Lone Star State. There…

  

• Texas-style Community-Based Accountability?

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  February 15, 2013

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  Accountability, Community-Based Accountability

  Policymakers from Texas to California are either taking notice of Community-Based Accountability, and/or they are thinking on the same wavelength. The first positive sign that I posted on around New Years was that the High Performance Coalition of 20 districts in Texas empowered by SB 1557 were seeking to adopt a Community-Based Accountability and Assessment…

  

• Carter G. Woodson

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  February 15, 2013

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  Wisdom

  I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

  

• Charter School Growth: @ProfessorJVH on KUHF Houston

  1–2 minutes

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  February 14, 2013

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  Charter Schools

  http://app1.kuhf.org/articles/1360863414-Houston-Charter-Schools-Plan-to-Grow.html My (brief) thought on charter school success aired in a story today on KUHF Houston public radio. See Cloaking Inequity’s full  thread on charters here.

  

• George Washington Carver

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  February 14, 2013

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  Wisdom

  Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.