Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

• The Current and Dire State of African American Males

  2–3 minutes

  ·

  November 26, 2012

  ·

  African Americans

  Scholars have considered the status of the African American male in recent years, relating terms such as “crisis,” “disappearing,” and “vanishing” regarding his educational experience (Blake & Darling, 1994; Harper, 2006). Social commentators, such as Illinois Tea Party candidate Al Reynolds— who recently remarked that Black men are more interested in drugs than education (Kacich,…

• Race and NCLB Waivers: Moving Around the Chairs?

  3–5 minutes

  ·

  November 25, 2012

  ·

  Accountability, African Americans, High-Stakes Testing, Latina/os

  In the recent vote for 2012 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award, the Florida SBOE race-based test score goals came in a close second to TFA for the prize. In fact, two of my Linkedin connections made the following comments in response the posting:  I vote for ALL ESEA waivers that systematize the achievement gap in many,…

• Teach For America: 2012 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year

  1–2 minutes

  ·

  November 22, 2012

  ·

  Teach For America

  Gobble. Gobble. With 31% of the vote, you the readers of Cloaking Inequity have voted Teach For America 2012 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year. Congratulations and condolences to them! For the full thread of posts about TFA, go here. Happy Turkey Day! p.s. My Detroit Lions were robbed by the NFL today on national…

• 1st Annual Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award

  1–2 minutes

  ·

  November 18, 2012

  ·

  Announcements

  Cloaking Inequity seeks to illuminate popular and dominant ideologies that purport to foment equality and close the achievement gap. Often well-intentioned citizens support educational policy that claim to create a more inclusive and better quality education system— unbeknownst to them— instead these policies magnify and hide inequality by utilizing an elegant, yet false, bureaucracy of…

• Forward: Appoint Linda Darling-Hammond

  1–2 minutes

  ·

  November 15, 2012

  ·

  Announcements

  In a recent Salon article, Dr. Bill Ayers was asked what he would recommend for Obama’s second term, here is what he said: Fire Arne Duncan and appoint Linda Darling-Hammond as Secretary of Education. This would signal a significant break with the most destructive aspects of the failed “school reform” agenda this administration has promoted: turning public…