Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

• What might MLK Jr. say to educators about COVID-19?

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  May 12, 2020

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  Wisdom

  This is what I think Martin Luther King Jr. might have said about the pursuit of principles of justice and inclusion by educators in our current environment. I have used his words almost verbatim with some modest embellishment. In the midst of COVID 19, the world is a different place. Our nation, our state and…

  

• Teachers – thank you!

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  May 8, 2020

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  Announcements, Wisdom

  https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/1258880343580475392?s=20

• I want YOU to enroll in my course. Help me choose the topic!

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  May 7, 2020

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  Announcements, Charter Schools, Community-Based Accountability, Wisdom

  Have you ever had the opportunity to tell a professor what course you want to take? I am taking suggestions for a course in the new University of Kentucky College of Education’s Professional Learning Series that I will teach this summer online that will be open for anyone in the public to register. When I…

  

• Pandemic Policy Perspectives

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  May 4, 2020

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  Announcements, Wisdom

  Free Education Policy Webinar today: Join the Mexican American School Boards Association at 12 p.m. EST for “Pandemic Policy Perspectives” with @HoustonISD Trustee @HMFV1, @DrCSampson of @ASU & @ProfessorJVH of @UKCollegeofEd Please share with your connections Register: register.gotowebinar.com/register/57117… More MASBA news: conta.cc/2YycDII

  

• Texas: Public Schools Outperform Charter Schools

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  April 25, 2020

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  Wisdom

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: William Gumbert relies on data from the Texas State Education Departmentvto demonstrate they the state’s woefully underfunded public schools outperform the well-funded overhyped charter schools. The real puzzle in Texas and elsewhere is why billionaires and financiers continue to fund failure. See the analysis here.