Category: Announcements
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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig will join the national staff of Teach For America as of April 1, 2015. He will serve as Teach For America’s Vice President of Umbilicus Monitoring and Evaluation. I just want to feel young and inexperienced again, Teach For America can help me do that for about two years. You cat…
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What’s the background on Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago runoff? Why are so many Democrats unhappy with a Democrat? In 2013, I wrote about his cozy relationship with billionaires in the post Bloomberg and Rahmbo: Sleight of Hand Artists. The reality of Rahm sponsored school closures in School Closure and Race Infographic: Something fishy going on in Chicago? and Mouth agape:…
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From Cambridge Forum: “The Massachusetts School Law of 1642 laid out the rationale for public education: “Forasmuch as the good education of children is of singular behoof and benefit to any Common-wealth.” How do contemporary efforts to privatize public education square with the civic role that education has played in American democracy? Internationally recognized leader…
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Wow. 2014 is already gone. Allot happened in education policy in 2014… Are the corporate reformers finally in retreat? There is some optimism out there that the public is finally seeing through their “civil rights” rhetoric and understanding that their true focus is control, profit, and privatization. With your input and support, Cloaking Inequity, our…
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I was asked by NPR to send along my predictions for education in 2015. They asked: We are asking a wide variety of education experts about predictions for 2015. I was wondering if you had 1 or 2 predictions for next year, or outcomes or situations to watch around the country based on your research.…





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