Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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My sources tell me that TFA will release a study on its Texas operation next week by Edvance Research Inc. (Yes, that same Edvance that Sandy Kress lobbies for). Of course it says TFA is awesome. Once it is publicly released, Cloaking Inequity will be on the case and evaluate its methodology, data, and findings.
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We all have that friend that looks around mystified because they have accidently forgotten their wallet— again. I remember one Valentine’s Day in college I was invited by two Puertoriqueñas to dinner. After dinner, I realized my wallet was missing. One of the Puertoriqueñas said, “Typical.” Fortunately, that day my wallet had just fallen out of my…
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Julian Vasquez Heilig discusses his paper, “Understanding the Interaction Between High Stakes Graduation Tests and English Learners” on the Teacher College Record web program The Voice. The Voice are videos featuring interviews about new educational research from the Teachers College Record. Search all episodes of The Voice at http://thevoice.pressible.org/. Vasquez Heilig, J. (2011). Understanding the interaction…
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Your faith in what you believe must be a living, working faith that draws you away from comfort and security, and toward risk through confrontation.
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After my testimony to the TX Senate Committee on Education on charters yesterday, someone stopped me in the hallway of the capitol and responded to a portion of my testimony by arguing essentially that charters are over-represented in the Latina/o college-readiness (majority of school college-ready) data relative to non-charter public schools. This is an interesting hypothesis…
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