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Lead Poisoning: A Known Learning Loss Threat

May 10, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Many parents are concerned about their child’s learning loss due to the pandemic. If children are behind, they can catch up. But there’s another culprit that could cause serious difficulties. Lead poisoning poses a threat to children through the water they drink from lead solder/pipes, dust exposure involving old paint in homes, and living near […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: lead from smelter plants., lead in paint, Lead in school drinking water, lead pipes, Lead poisoning, learning disabilities, reading disabilities

The Trouble with Social-Emotional Learning: Why Be Concerned? Here’s Why!

May 2, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

. . . we must hold social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they’re conducting on our children for profit.  It’s time to strengthen privacy protections, ban targeted advertising to children, and demand tech companies stop collecting personal data on our children. ~President Biden, State of the Union Address, March 1, 2022 Social-emotional learning […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: data, data collection on children, online data, Social Emotional Learning

101 Reasons Why Interactions in Classroom Settings are Better than Teacherless Online Instruction

April 19, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Students learn from each other when given opportunities to interact in small classroom settings under the direction of well-informed, qualified teachers. Teacherless online programs where children face screens to work on rote exercises miss valuable keys to learning. Yet students are bombarded with more technology; however, reports indicate how risky too much technology can be! […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: classroom interaction v. online instruction, classroom interactions, learning

The Harm Caused By the Third Grade Reading Ultimatum

April 5, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

Tremendous pressure is placed on children to learn to read by third grade. They must pass state reading tests created by those expecting them to read at this time. If they don’t do well, they could fail third grade. Yet there’s no clear research on the age a child should be able to read. Not […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Finland and reading, No Child Left Behind, reading and child development, reading difficulties, third grade reading ultimatum, third grade retention, When should a child be able to read?

The Future of Education? Who Decides How OUR Public Schools Run?

March 28, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Who determines how America’s democratic public schools are run? Is it the Americans, Democrats, and Republicans, who elect a school board to democratically represent their community? Why do nonprofits working with corporations get to decide the future of our public schools? What gives them the right to determine what teachers should teach and how schools […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), Collaborative for Student success, Common Core, Corporations and public schools, Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, high stakes standardized testing, Nonprofits and public schools, School Privatization, School Vouchers, the EduRecoveryHub, The Future of Education

The End of Public Schools? 5 Community School Concerns

March 21, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 25 Comments

Are community schools privatizing public education from within through partnerships? If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, isn’t it a duck? It’s hard to distinguish the Biden administration’s Full-Service Community Schools and Charter School difference (see below). Americans fail to invest in schools and children have unmet […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Community Schools, Data Collection, Pay for Success, President Reagan, school Partnerships, School Privatization, Social Impact Bonds, The Biden Administration

Kindergarten Reading is NOT a Crisis! The Real Reasons Behind These Claims

March 13, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 20 Comments

Words like alarm, crisis, and loss should never be used to reference kindergarten reading or any learning. What must children think? It destroys the trust parents have in teachers and public schools. This is school privatization on steroids flamed by the pandemic! Dana Goldstein’s recent fear-mongering report by The New York Times: Children Are Severely Behind […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amplify, Demanding Advanced Work in Kindergarten, i-Ready, kindergarten, Kindergarten is the New First Grade, Kindergarten pressure to read, Pandemic learning loss, Reading loss

Ukrainian Schools During War: Gratefulness for America’s Public Schools

March 8, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Witnessing the Ukrainian invasion brings feelings of sadness and helplessness. Children have no hope of school, running from danger after losing their homes. We’re reminded of how lucky Americans are to have freedom, not to be facing a war here, and that democratic public schools are open to all children. It shocks the world to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: America's democratic public schools, book banning, Children and Ukraine, Don't Say Gay Bill, Freedom, Losing America's Democratic Public Schools, Ukrainian Schools, Ukrainian War

Teacher Age Discrimination Still, During A Pandemic Teacher Shortage?

February 28, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

Recruiting older teachers should be one solution to address the current teacher shortage crisis. Some states claim to be calling retired teachers back to the classroom to help during the pandemic. Does this include senior teachers? Will they be permanent positions? School districts should be searching for incentives and ways to attract all teachers, including […]

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Grow-Your-Own Apprenticeships Don’t Raise Pay or Prestige for Professional Teachers

February 23, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

America’s children and teens need well-qualified professional teachers who study and specialize in the best universities, are paid fairly, and treated with respect, not Grow-Your-Own Apprenticeship programs to make fast-track learn-as-you-go classroom monitors. It’s hard to believe parents want apprentices not fully prepared teachers working with their children. Grow-Your-Own Apprenticeship is not just a program […]

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ktdaygKatie Day Good@ktdayg·
13 May

Appreciate this list of low-tech, time-honored approaches to teaching social-emotional learning in schools.

In the spirit of @nataliapetrzela’s thoughtful essay today, this is one area where parents + educators on both sides of the pol spectrum could find common ground… https://twitter.com/NancyEBailey1/status/1521106802150199296

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Social-emotional learning is troubling especially due to the sensitive DATA collected on children and how it will be used. It is an issue that should concern all parents and educators. @Screensandkids https://nancyebailey.com/2022/05/02/the-trouble-with-social-emotional-learning-why-be-concerned-heres-why/

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2 May

Social-emotional learning is troubling especially due to the sensitive DATA collected on children and how it will be used. It is an issue that should concern all parents and educators. @Screensandkids https://nancyebailey.com/2022/05/02/the-trouble-with-social-emotional-learning-why-be-concerned-heres-why/

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DASchwartzyDanielle Schwartz@DASchwartzy·
12 May

"Learning Loss" is a marketing scheme invented by ed tech companies, and embraced by the media. They create problems to solve in order to sell products. Oldest trick in the book. https://twitter.com/ELmagazine/status/1524776412233625603

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“If students became more independently driven, or resilient in the face of at-home distractions . . . it wouldn’t necessarily appear in their test scores.” @YongZhaoEd

New research raises questions on capturing a complete view of learning loss. https://bit.ly/3Peuc8A

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SchoolyardNewsSchoolyard News@SchoolyardNews·
11 May

What would happen to Boston schools if the state takes over? Teachers in schools now under state control tell a town hall what it’s like.
#bostonschools #bospoli
https://schoolyardnews.com/life-under-state-receivership-5f80b8c1c37b

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SafeH2o4Schools#GettheLeadOut #ScienceIsReal #TruthMatters@SafeH2o4Schools·
11 May

@hanna_hurley @NancyEBailey1 We're a society that believes the lead issue has been eradicated & the health experts are doing everything possible to protect our children.

It hasn't & they aren't.

Lead poisoning is 100% preventable. https://www.verywellhealth.com/children-lead-blood-levels-5205133

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