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6 Ways High-Stakes Standardized Testing Destroys Student Voice

January 14, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

The National Council of the Teachers of English is Helping Students Find Their Voices in Challenging Times. This title stood out as well worth exploring, but it’s also a reminder that since public education became focused on high-stakes standardized testing, public schools’ emphasis has been on scores, not students’ voices. Student’s thoughts and ideas should […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Data Collection in school, high stakes standardized testing, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Social Emotional Learning, student self-expression, student voice, testing alignment, the loss of the arts

Why Are Schools Opening When Covid-19 is Surging?

January 6, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

It has become a cruel joke. Shut everything down! Stay home! Cancel the holidays! Close everything! But open schools! Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious diseases expert, told Americans to stay home throughout the holiday season, avoid groups, wash hands, wear masks, and stay socially distanced. There’s a horrific death count in case […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Center for Disease Control (CDC), children and Covid-19, covid-19, Dr, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Wen, Princeton Study about Covid-19, Redfield, School openings, Superspreaders, the Coronavirus, the learning curve experiment

Guarded Hope and 7 Concerns for Public Education this New Year

January 4, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

We have a new President and a new education secretary and hope for the future of public education. Hope doesn’t come easy because schools face what appear to be insurmountable difficulties due to Covid-19. Also, wealthy individuals and groups who want school privatization are established in the system, mostly in dozens of anti-public school nonprofits, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: assessment, covid-19, School Infrastructure, Social Justice, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Shortage, the arts

Amplify and iReady Claim Kindergarten and First Grade “Reading Loss” to Profit From the Pandemic

December 30, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Are kindergartners falling behind in reading due to the pandemic? Amplify and iReady want us to think so. But kindergarten teachers should not be forcing children to learn to read during the pandemic. They shouldn’t have been pushing them to read before Covid-19. Nor should kindergartners be forced to read after the coronavirus becomes a […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amplify, assessment, Covid Slide, covid-19, DIBELS, first grade reading, iReady, Kindergarten reading, profiting on reading, Reading Expectations, the Pandemic learning loss

Education’s “Better Angels of Our Nature” During a Pandemic

December 24, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ~President Abraham Lincoln from his First Inaugural Address in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Education during the pandemic, Parents during the pandemic, students during the pandemic, Teachers during the pandemic

The Attack on Dr. Jill Biden is Cloaked Hatred of Teachers and Public Education

December 20, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Much has been written about the offensiveness of the Wall Street Journal’s Epstein opinion piece on Dr. Jill Biden. It lacks respect for Dr. Biden, a veteran teacher, deeply committed to her profession and community college students, but it’s also meant to ridicule teaching and public education. First, it’s never wise to criticize intellectual pursuit, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Dr. Jill Biden, five-seven weeks of training v. a doctorate degree, Privatization of Public Education, Relay Graduate School of Education, Schools of Education, Teach for America, teachers, university education schools

Researching DeVos’s $185 Million School Funding Plan During a Pandemic  

December 17, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

During this pandemic, public school funding is critical. The American public deserves to know as best as possible how their tax dollars are being spent on education and every area for that matter. That’s why it’s disappointing to review Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s recent spending of $185 million on education innovation and acceleration. Program emphasis […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: $!85 million to schools, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, grants, nonprofits, Programs that have received school funding, School Privatization

McKinsey & Company Uses Falling Behind Talk to Ramp Up School Toughness

December 10, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 20 Comments

For years McKinsey & Company has had a premier seat at the school reform table for the U.S., England, and worldwide, despite faulty reporting. Because of Covid-19, plans are being put in place to get tougher on students to make up for lost learning time. They use terms like high impact and high dosage tutoring. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Falling behind in school due to Covid-19, iReady, mathematics, McKinsey & Company study

How Has School Privatization Contributed to Mental Illness in Students Before and During Covid-19?

December 7, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Mental illness in children existed before Covid-19. How many students are struggling with it during the pandemic? How did school privatization contribute to this phenomenon? Before Covid-19 A 2018 survey conducted by the National Association of Elementary School Principals noted that their top concern is the rising numbers of students with emotional problems and mental health […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anxiety, children and teens, covid-19, depression, in-person school, mental health, Mental Illness, oppositional defiance disorder, public schools, Remote learning, school, School Privatization, special education, the arts

6 Critical Education Issues To Watch At Thanksgiving

November 25, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

This is a tough Thanksgiving, especially for those who are ill or have lost loved ones. I wish for everyone renewed hope and wellness and that you have family and loved ones to stay in touch with and enjoy. That even if you don’t, you’ll find love and comfort in your lives during these trying […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Biden-Harris administration, CDC Guidelines for Schools, covid-19, loss, President-elect Biden, public schools, school staff, Surge, Teach Plus, teachers, Thanksgiving, The Education Trust

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skrashenStephen Krashen@skrashen·
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@hueraTN @NancyEBailey1 YES! Martin Luther King:
"We are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished.”

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EricaLGErica L. Green@EricaLG·
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"Children with cancer touch a special place in people’s hearts. And yet, as a society, we have failed to put our best resources together."

Opinion | My baby daughter died of brain cancer. Here’s what we can do to save other kids. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/25/andrew-kaczynski-daughter-brain-cancer-pediatric-research/?tid=ss_tw

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barb_dowdallBarbara McDowell Dowdall@barb_dowdall·
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@BeckyPringle @KeithEricBenson Will be speaking at Phila Board Ed tonight re restoration of libraries with CTL’s. Only 6 of 200+ schools still have one. 3 newly appointed members all enjoyed that resource in their own school days.

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nancyflanagannancyflanagan@nancyflanagan·
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The National Reading Panel from 20 yrs ago politicized the ongoing quest to build a repertoire of ways to effectively teach students to read. It is NOT settled science. Time for a new, genuinely balanced panel: https://nancyebailey.com/2021/02/22/time-for-a-new-national-reading-panel-to-study-reading-instruction/

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lvstodanceKathy Beery, M.Ed.@lvstodance·
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@NancyEBailey1 And just a reminder, in his own words, Biden promised to get rid of the testing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haGLsCBPWKA&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=SchottFoundation

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