Community Based Education Reform

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig will discuss community-based reform efforts designed to improve student achievement and school success as an alternative to the decades-long era of increasing private control in education.

Given increased support for testing and standardization, policies incentivizing the expansion of school vouchers and charters, assessment of students and teachers linked to test scores, and a federal role in education of historic proportions, this lecture will consider community-based reforms within current school reform discourse and the education policy landscape. Small groups will form to discuss new notions of community organizing for school improvement via social media and other platforms.

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and the Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership at California State Sacramento. He blogs at Cloaking Inequity, and tweets @ProfessorJVH.

This talk is cosponsored by the 2014-15 IAS Private for the Public Good? Collaborative, the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, the Department of Communication Studies, and the College of Education and Human Development. It is free and open to the public.