Category: Wisdom
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Check out our Truth For America podcast on your next drive to work on iTunes here or YouTube here. Truth For America is a podcast about Teach For America (TFA) that provides voice to educators, parents, students, and other key stakeholders. Truth For America is co-hosted by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig and Dr. T. Jameson…
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Originally posted on School Finance 101: Another excerpt from forthcoming work… Much of the expansion of charter schooling occurred during the recession. That is, states were adding schools while reducing overall funding, adding inequitable choices on top of increasingly inequitable and inadequate systems. Expanded charter schooling was a centerpiece of the Duncan/Obama education reform platform…
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via David Berliner Calls for a National Teachers’ Strike on May Day to Demand Sensible Gun Laws
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Did I bomb this interview with Dr. Juan Manuel Niño (The University of Texas at San Antonio) that was published recently in the UCEA Review? I was honored to participate. Here it is: JMN: Dr. Vasquez Heilig, thank you for agreeing to participate in this interview. Our conversation will focus on your work, publications, and involvement…
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The warnings came right after the storm: Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico would be used as an opportunity to transfer management of the island’s schools to private operators of charter schools, and introduce voucher programs that would redirect public education funds to private schools. “The education privatization playbook uses politics to open the door…
Cloaking Inequity 