Tag: Houston
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I am in Baltimore at the NAACP’s 2017 National Convention. https://www.instagram.com/p/BW5QniOlwDL/?taken-by=professorjvh https://www.instagram.com/p/BW38lGulGSv/?taken-by=professorjvh https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889258199030927360 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889194282925666306 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889120240935858176 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889119669101219841 https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0ekMmF9iv/?taken-by=professorjvh https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0NxaGlHsj/?taken-by=professorjvh Much will happen here that you will probably see in the news soon. I believe the NAACP is reinvigorated to take on education issues. More info very soon. But for now, the NAACP’s National Education Department recently…
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“Julian you are precocious” were the words that I heard that morning from Mrs. Wutke, one of my instructors in high school. That comment sent me scurrying for the dictionary. Nowadays, you turn to dictionary.com— which tells me that I was “flowering or fruiting earlier than usual.” Sadly, Mrs. Wutke was killed in a tragic…
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http://app1.kuhf.org/articles/1360863414-Houston-Charter-Schools-Plan-to-Grow.html My (brief) thought on charter school success aired in a story today on KUHF Houston public radio. See Cloaking Inequity’s full thread on charters here.
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I gave another interview on the cheating scandal in El Paso (1,2,3) yesterday. The question that often arises is this only a case of bad apples? The research literature has long shown serial dishonesty in Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) publicly reported dropout and graduation numbers (See for example IDRA; Losen, Orfield, & Balfanz, 2006; Vasquez Heilig & Darling-Hammond) suggesting…
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In April of 2012, KIPP responded to a press release for Is choice a panacea? An analysis of black secondary student attrition from KIPP, other private charters and urban districts, a peer-reviewed paper published in the Berkeley Review of Education (BRE) about African American secondary student attrition from charter schools across the state of Texas. KIPP began their response by…
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