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$100M For Children “Learning Faster Than Ever Before” In Tennessee?!

February 12, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Tennessee lawmakers just signed off on a $100 Million program called Reading 360. Sixty million is federal Covid-19 relief money and $40 million federal grant money. What is this? Why Tennessee? Will other states follow? While the media bombards the public with learning loss warnings, this program is about acceleration. Fast-Track Here’s what the brochure […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Diversity, Featured, Popular Featured, Reading, Special Education, Teaching, Technology, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: Acceleration, home videos, K-12, Online, Partners, phonics, plug and play grow your own, Reading 360, reading crisis, Teacher training, Tennessee, Tutors, vendors tracking student progress

12 Reasons Why Digital Personalized Learning is Not Special Education

October 10, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

A recent article in Business Insider describes how Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg got their idea for digital personalized learning from special education. A light bulb lit, and they realized that students placed according to their academic level online is needed for every child—not just students with disabilities. They liked the way special education teachers […]

Filed Under: Featured, Special Education Tagged With: Bill Gates, charter schools, Cheating, Cyberbullying, Digital Personalized Instruction, high-stakes testing, Mark Zuckerberg, Ongoing Assessment, Online Charter Schools, Online Instruction, School Privatization, socialization, special education, Student Differences

The Real Meaning Behind the Duncan/Huffman Tough Special Ed. Compliance Talk

June 26, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 27 Comments

What are they really doing? Everyone who cares about students with disabilities is troubled by Arne Duncan’s latest NPR blathering over the Obama administration’s plans to get even tougher on special ed. and to test these students more and include their scores in the National Assessment for Education Progress known as the Nation’s Report Card. […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: Arne Duncan, assessment, Common Core, Compliancy, Individual Educational Plan, Kevin Huffman, NAEP, parents, special education, Teach for America, teachers

The Lawsuits Students Really Deserve in New York City and the Rest of the Country!

March 15, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Aren’t there some fine lawyers who would, preferably with pro-bono work, support families who have children with disabilities, all kinds of disabilities, or children who have second language hurdles, or the really really poor children, to sue the charter operators and their rich donors for denying these students a slot in their elite charter schools? […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: ACLU, Board of Directors, Brown v. Board of Education, Chancellor Carmen Fariña, Charter School Operators, charter schools, Eva Moskowitz, Joe Scarborough, Lawsuits, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Mika Brzezinski, New York, Pro-Bono, PS 811 Mickey Mantle School, public schools, Really Really Poor Students, Second Language Students, Severe Disabilities, special education, Success Academy, The Hunger Games

Florida Teachers Get VAMED Only a Week After the Death of Ethan Rediske

February 25, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Floridians get to look up their teachers’ test scores now, courtesy of The Florida Times Union (they actually went to court for this), even though it is just a week after the death of Ethan Rediske. Tell me, Times Union Editor Frank Denton, how did his teacher do? If you aren’t one of the many […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: Ethan Rediske, special education, State of Florida, students with severe disabilities, The Florida Times Union, Value Added Model (VAM)

The Soulless Practice of Using Students with Disabilities to Fire Teachers—Remembering a Better World

February 8, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

How’s this for compassion in the new public school accountability world? By now most people have read about the Ethan Rediske situation in Orlando. The 11 year old, blind, with brain damage and cerebral palsy, as he lay dying in a Hospice, was required to take an alternative version of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: developmental disabilities, FCAT, Florida, high-stakes testing, institutions, Orlando, public schools, Sunland

What Should Parents Do For Students with Autism in Public Schools?

January 27, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

The January 3rd post about autism hit a nerve and I have a little more venting to do on this subject before moving on…. These suggestions can apply to all students and parents who want something more than Common Core State Standards and high-stakes testing in their public schools. It is easy to tell parents […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: autistic students, Common Core, private schools, support groups, teachers, vouchers

Larger Classes Help Students with Disabilities? Who Does the Illinois Bd. of Ed. Think It’s Fooling?

January 14, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

The Illinois Board of Education believes larger general education classes will help children with disabilities http://action.aft.org/c/468/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=7727.  Restricting the size or providing self-contained classes would do them a disservice. Really? Shame on them! Who do they think they are fooling? Consider this profound statement: “The elimination of state requirements specific to class size will best ensure […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: class size, Illinois Board of Education, Individual Educational Plan (IEP), Least Restrictive Environment (LRE), Students with Disabilities

Common Core and Ability Grouping—Ignoring Critical Questions

January 5, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Common Core does not honestly tackle a problem that should be front and center in our public schools. How do we address ability grouping? Should students with learning disabilities be educated separately or in the regular class? Do autistic children learn faster mainstreamed or with specialized help in a self-contained classroom or separate school? Are […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: ability grouping, Autism, class size, Common Core, detracking, gifted, learning disabilities, mainstreamed, self-contained classroom, separate school, social and cultural needs, tracking

Misguided Education Reform

December 31, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

A nice thing that happened to me this past year was the publishing, back in July, of my book, Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students, by R & L Books (Rowman & Littlefield). It covers many of the same topics you will find on my blog. I discuss special education which might be […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: charter school buildings, Common Core, discipline, early childhood education, emotional disabilities, gifted, IDEA, learning disabilities, libraries, loss of the arts, Misguided Education Reform, PL 94-142, poor/unsafe school facilities, re-authorizations, reading, Reading First, special education, testing, Zero Tolerance

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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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"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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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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