Category: Accountability

• Social Impact Bonds: Bankers Get Paid Only If Education Works?

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  December 31, 2017

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  Accountability

  When I am speaking about education policy in different parts of the country (go here please), I am often asked what is coming next in the effort to profit and privatize public goods during the Q&A. Lynn Davenport, a Cloaking Inequity reader from Texas, asked me to blog information about social impact bonds. What are…

• Has community-based accountability been impactful for English Learners?

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  February 28, 2017

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  Accountability, Community-Based Accountability, English Language Learners

  What is community-based accountability? In 2012, I first conceptualized community-based accountability in the post Accountability: Are you ready for a new idea? Over the past several years, California has undertaken this new approach for its more than 4 million students (See all posts on community-based accountability). Local control has been a bedrock principle of public schooling in…

  

• Teach Thought: Reform, Charter Schools, Poverty and Politics

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  December 30, 2015

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  Accountability, Charter Schools, Community-Based Accountability, KIPP, Podcasts, Teach For America

  What’s the reason why Democrats and Republicans are afraid to discuss education in their stump speeches or debates? Will the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) federal education bill be better than No Child Left Behind? What are some positive attributes of charter schools? In this Teach Thought podcast episode Drew Perkins (Director of Professional Development at…

  

• Top 10 Education Questions for 2016 Presidential Candidates

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  October 13, 2015

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  Accountability, Charter Schools, Community-Based Accountability, Early Childhood, High-Stakes Testing, Labor, School Turnaround

  Here are my Top 10 education questions for the 2016 Presidential Candidates: Please Facebook Like, Tweet, etc below and/or reblog to share this discussion with others. Want to know about Cloaking Inequity’s freshly pressed conversations about educational policy? Click the “Follow blog by email” button on the home page. Twitter: @ProfessorJVH Click here for Vitae.

  

• “Lead Bravely.” How To Change the Story About Community-Based Education

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  October 1, 2015

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  Accountability, Charter Schools, Community-Based Accountability

  by Sarah Lahm for The Progressive Magazine Just as the Progressive launched its new “Education Fellows” project, as a way to refocus education policy on democratic, child-centered principles, one of those fellows–California professor Julian Vasquez Heilig–came to Minnesota to talk about community-based education reform. Vasquez Heilig spoke at the University of Minnesota on September 24 to a late…