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Online Therapy in Schools? Privacy and Quality Concerns

February 20, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Most of us are concerned when we hear of a credit card data breach in a store or company where we do business. Many parents are also troubled about academic and social-emotional behavioral online assessment data collected about their children in school. But what about your child surrendering their personal and sensitive information in an […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Online therapy, Online Therapy in schools, Privacy issues concerning children, School Counselors, School Nurses, School Psychologists, Student Privacy, student safety

Love OUR Public Schools: Children & Their Teachers!

February 14, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

On this one-year anniversary of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, I am remembering the students and their parents and teachers, especially those who lost loved ones. MSD represents a great public school. Beyond the sadness of that day, we saw what a good public school can be. We saw loving, supportive parents. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School, Public School Safety, public schools, Saving Public Schools, School Choice, students, teachers

How NCLB is Still Destroying Reading for Children 

February 12, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

NCLB was a bi-partisan bill signed into law in 2002 during the Bush administration’s push for school reform. We now recognize how punitive the bill was, its troubling use of one-size-fits-all standardized testing to demonize and close public schools, the punitive AYP and “highly qualified” teacher credentialing changes, the unrealistic predictions that all children would […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Defending the Early Years, developmental disabilities, Early Childhood, Kindergarten is the New First Grade, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), phonics, Picture Books, Reading in Kindergarten, Setting Children Up to Hate Reading, standardized testing, Teaching reading, The Alliance for Childhood, Valerie Strauss The Answer Sheet

The Privatization of Teaching Teachers How to Teach Reading: Cashing In on Kids!

February 7, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

Wondering about all the recent articles claiming teachers don’t know how to teach reading, and their education schools are failing them? It appears to be about nonprofits! These groups are competing with universities. They promise to better prepare teachers to teach reading, for a fee, of course! But there’s no proof they will do teacher […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: privatization of reading instruction, Public School Privatization, reading instruction nonprofits

Charter/Community Schools & Partnerships: Privatization Ending Public Education

February 3, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

A charter school can be a community school, and vice versa.  ~National Center for Community Schools There’s new school management these days that might seem nice, but scratch beneath the service and it is privatization and the theft of America’s democratic public schools. There are two points in this blog post. Community schools might be […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Community Schools, Dallas Partners to take over schools, Lausd community schools, Ohio Community Schools, Public School Privatization, school Partnerships

Leaving Childhood Out in the Rain!

January 31, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Why do corporate CEOs, foundations, and policymakers want kindergartners to learn more advanced material at a faster rate? Why is this important to them? If children are made to grow up quickly, what happens to childhood? Why are they against play and art for children in public schools? Why do they push children to read […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: assessment, corporate school reform, Demanding Advanced Work in Kindergarten, kindergarten, kindergarten expectation, Kindergarten rigor, losing childhood, Social Emotional Learning, testing, The Chalkbeat

The Headband Obsession With Student Concentration

January 27, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Headbands created to collect information about student attending behavior are the latest trend. Adults monitor and gather information from students’ brains to see if they stay focused on schoolwork. Here’s the Vulcan Post that discusses Neeuro, from just one company jumping on the headband bandwagon. This falls into the social-emotional “good behavior” and “self-regulation” learning […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class size, concentration, focus, headband monitoring, On-task behavior, Public School, School Privatization, SLANT, student concentration, Student Privacy, teachers, Technology

Social-Emotional Learning and Teachers Students Love? Teachers in Los Angeles!

January 22, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Social-emotional learning (SEL) in schools makes many parents and teachers nervous. We worry there’s an ulterior motive to collect behavioral data on how children think and act, and that the ultimate goal is to privatize public schools and track students. Talk about transforming our public schools away from cognitive learning to SEL is everywhere! Those […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aspen Institute, behavioral data collection, class size, counselors, L.A. Teachers Strike, Librarians, lowering class size, nurses, Social Emotional Learning, students, teachers, tracking

Showcasing Tolerance and Kindness in America’s Public School Students Through Their Writings

January 20, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. On this Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, I thought it would be nice to promote children and teens around the country who have demonstrated tolerance and kindness through essays. Our public schools and public school teachers nurture that hope. Our children learn from […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: America's Kids, kindness, MLK Day 2019, public school teachers, public schools, Teaching Tolerance, Tolerance

Special Education: How Has Teacher Preparation Changed?

January 18, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

Sometimes parents of students with disabilities will complain that teachers don’t know how to teach special education. This generalization is difficult to pin down. What specifically makes parents believe this? What is it about their student’s teacher that makes them so critical? With more student placement in inclusion classes, it also isn’t always clear if […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: changes in special education teacher preparation, general education, General Education Teachers, special education, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Preparation

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