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Education Health ALERT!: United Nations warns GERMs spreading worldwide #NN15

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 2 comments

The world is experiencing the spread of privatizing GERMs (Global Education Reform Movements). School “reformers” are pressing a variety of “school choice” and “market-based” policies that move the control of schools from democratic control to private control. Market-based approaches such as vouchers, charters, and parent trigger take the control of schools out of the hands of democratically elected governmental officials

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Parent Trigger Testimony: A One-way Street to Private Control #SB14

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 5 comments

Parent Trigger is a one-way street to non-democratic, private control of our public schools. During the last round of Parent Trigger law attempts, I wrote about it in the posts Parent trigger laws: Wolves in sheep’s clothing and astroturfing and The Teat: Where does parent trigger movement get their $? I flew to Texas Tuesday to testify at the Texas House of Representatives Public Education Committee against

The Axe is grinding: Is PAR teacher evaluation discriminatory?

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 5 comments

Julian Vasquez Helig gave no statistical rebuttal to my data, therefore his comments are meaningless. Brian Crowell I am usually up for a challenge. It was a lazy Saturday afternoon and Brian Crowell was up to his usual schtick critiquing Peer Assistance and Review (PAR), a community-level teacher evaluation approach. I previously discussed PAR in the post Can we Evaluate #Teachers Without Using

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Podcast Series: Conversation with Loyola Students about Education Reform

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Leave a comment

Last week I joined students from Dr. Aurora Chang’s education reform class at Loyola University to discuss hot issues in the national conversation about education policy. We started with a few questions submitted by her doctoral students. Here is what we addressed: 1.When addressing inequity with policy makers, are there different strategies whether they are neoliberal or conservative? 2. In what ways can

The Teat: Is Leadership for Educational Equity getting TFA’s dirty work done?

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 3 comments

In our last segment of the The Teat, we discussed how education reformers have exploded 501(c)3 organizations to push corporate education reform. Now we’ll focus on its big bad cousin: 501(c)4 organizations. But first, as is tradition, our cow haiku: Two cows in pasture A steak and a glass of milk Dinner is served now 501(c)4 organizations have recently been

Top Ten List: Why “choice” demonstrates that money matters

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 6 comments

Apologize for the CI hiatus. I have six PhD students that want to graduate, which translates to about 1,000 pages dissertation reading these past few days. I recently had a conversation with a conservative Harvard-trained attorney last Saturday in Houston. We were discussing Finland (I blogged about Finland a few weeks ago) and her point was that the United States

The Teat: Where does parent trigger movement get their $?

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 6 comments

Today on the Cloaking Inequity series, The Teat, I examine where parent trigger proponents get their $. I had pondered parent trigger— because from the outside looking in it appeared to be a community-based approach led by parents and civil rights activists to address the inequalities that have plagued our schools for generations. Recently we even watched excerpts from the parent

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