Category: Announcements

  • Today was V-Day for the most recent Texas school finance case! More on the win later. In the morning (about 6 a.m.) I will discuss the implications of the case in segment on KXAN NBC’s morning show. I will highlight what the school finance win will mean for students, teachers, and school districts across the state.

    School Finance Lawsuit: Julian Vasquez Heilig @ KXAN NBC Feb. 5
  • The Texas Observer will present “School Reform Across Texas,” a public forum featuring former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch. The event is hosted by the Center for Health and Social Policy at The University of Texas at Austin. Saturday, February 23 3:00 – 5:00 pm LBJ School of Public Affairs, Bass Lecture Hall 2315…

    School Reform Across Texas: Julian Vasquez Heilig @ Texas Observer Forum Feb 23, 2013
  • Teach 100 consistently ranks Cloaking Inequity as one of the Top 100 education blogs in the world. See today’s rank at the bottom of the page. Remember, CI is a one man show. Some websites (i.e. Inside Higher Ed) are on a different plane. 🙂 For the full list go here. Teach100 ranks and scores hundreds of…

    Cloaking Inequity on elite list
  • 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…

  • 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…

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