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Reading Aloud to Help Children Read Well Their Whole Lives!

August 17, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Every new parent should get a copy of Jim Trelease’s The Read-Aloud Handbook. Teachers should have a copy too. In honor of the late Trelease, parent and award-winning artist, writer, and author, it’s important to point out that his well-documented research lives on encouraging reading aloud to children, even babies, to foster a lifelong love […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: books, dyslexia, early reading, early reading programs, Jim Trelease, learning disabilities, libraries, online reading programs, phonics, reading aloud to children, reading books, school libraries, The read-aloud handbook, whole language

Who’s Teaching America’s Students?

August 7, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.  ~Helen Caldicott, Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate. Students need professional teachers with subject degrees if they’re to graduate and gain acceptance to universities or enter the workforce capable of a trade. With […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Deprofessionalizing teachers, Horizons National, Online Learning, Teach Plus, teacher qualifications, Teachers from the Military

Special Education and School Choice: Not Great Choices, If Any

July 24, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Years of school reforms have stripped public schools of disability services, creating problems for parents (See Carl Peterson’s recent Exterminating Special Education). Parents may turn to charter, parochial or private schools, online learning, or homeschooling, only to find choices lacking, or the school may not want their child, leaving parents in the lurch. Charter Schools […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, homeschool, Online Instruction, Parochial Schools, private schools, School Choice, special education

Students Need Teachers NOT Tutors! Who’s Pushing Tutors and Why?

July 13, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

Reports of teacher shortages, or call it the Great Teacher Pushout, run rampant in states, a crisis this country has never seen before. But instead of working to improve conditions and lift the teaching profession, many groups are conspiring to replace teachers with tutors! Tutors will complete the longtime goal of ending professional teachers and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Disruptive" Technology, Manufactured Teacher Shortage, Privatizing Schools, Reasons for a teacher shortage, Tutor/Tech Transformation, Tutors

Religion’s Destructive Effect on Public Education this July 4th

July 4, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly? ~Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor On this 4th of July, the country faces divisive problems, including losing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Carson v. Makin, charter schools, freedom of religion, Hillsdale College, keeping public schools public, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, Philadelphia Bible riots, public education, religious freedom, Separation of Church and State

The State of School Recess in America is Still Terrible!

June 22, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

One might assume state policymakers had improved school recess for children, considering their databases, but except for a few places, most school districts still deny children recess. They don’t appear to understand that children need and deserve unstructured school breaks several times a day. Unstructured is key. When they discuss recess they usually still mean […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Children and Play, School Recess, the difference between recess and P.E., the Importance of school recess

What’s The Teacher’s Role, if Any, in Community Schools with Partnerships?

June 15, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

The teacher’s role in community schools with business partnerships seems murky. This raises concerns about a teacher’s purpose in those schools. If Americans are going to embrace community schools, teachers must be recognized as professionals in their own right. Community schools rely on business partners, so will teachers be replaced with online (personalized) instruction, the […]

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5 Ways to KNOW EVERY STUDENT! The Mental Health and Safety Role of Schools

June 9, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

Next to the extreme importance of changes in gun regulations, when it comes to mental health and school safety, many critical conditions are thus far overlooked or ignored by policymakers. The first and most important is to know every student at the school. Parents should ask, do they know my child at school? Educators should ask, do […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class size, Community Services, Including Residential Placement, Qualified Teachers, school safety, Special Education Teachers, support staff, Whole Curriculum

On This Memorial Day: Sadness of a Different Sort

May 29, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with their freedom. ~Bob Dylan On this Memorial Day, is this the country our parents, grandparents, and ancestors fought for, a welcoming home where the youngest, oldest, and poorest among us can thrive? Did they foresee, fight, or die for […]

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The Science of Reading Corporate Connection: Replacing Teachers with Tech

May 23, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 19 Comments

Many of the same individuals who favor charter schools, private schools, and online instruction, including corporate reformers, use the so-called Science of Reading (SoR) to make public school teachers look like they’ve failed at teaching reading. Politicians and corporations have had a past and current influence on reading instruction to privatize public schools with online […]

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nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
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Children must first learn reading is fun. Pushing phonics on young children means nothing if they can't connect it to the joy of reading. Jim Trelease knew the importance of reading aloud. His book holds the key.
https://nancyebailey.com/2022/08/17/reading-aloud-to-help-children-read-well-their-whole-lives/

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nicholasferroni Nicholas Ferroni @nicholasferroni ·
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When you are trying to sell something that you know is not going to work… https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1558849930948534273

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.@GovDeSantis on recruiting veterans to the teaching field: "Our veterans have a wealth of knowledge and experience they can bring to bear in the classroom. [...] For too long, the requirements to be a teacher have been too rigid." https://trib.al/1bPu78k

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The state of #recess in #america is horrendous. There are a few states where mandatory recess for K-8 have been achieved, but even there the minimum is too low. See @NancyEBailey1 post on recess: https://bit.ly/3bFyd6k.
#outdoorrecess #letthechildrenplay #playislearning

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Pre-K with a state-certified teacher should be a right, not a privilege.

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