Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

  • At the heart of the northern educational problem is the ghetto school, which with each passing day casts more children upon the human slag-heap, leading to increased frustration, and thereby increasing more impediments to any solution. This is a continuous on-going process. It is so complex that many run from it because the enormity of…

    Martin Luther King Jr. on ghetto schools
  • We’ve got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.

    Michelle Obama
  • Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • How can we banish NCLB’s top-down and narrow paradigm? Here is how you do it… Accountability should foster collective community goals. In education, there are many measures of student success from school entry through graduation and beyond. Here are Community-Based Accountability Executive Summary and Key Features. Please forward and circulate widely. These are living documents and…

    A New Way to Do Accountability
  • John Dewey

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    Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

    John Dewey

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