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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

How Dwindling Human Interaction in Public Schools Hurts Us as a Society

August 7, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Look at the picture above. Is the boy going to pick on the girl, or will he invite her to play with the other children? In today’s impersonal school climate, how do students learn about those around them? When there’s no chance of bringing students together in school, how will children better understand their peers? […]

Filed Under: Featured, Technology Tagged With: AI in school, artificial intelligence in school, class size, depersonalized learning, disabilities, inclusion, no excuses, Online Learning, Online testing, public schools, segregated charter schools, socialization, standardized testing, student isolation, the lack of school counselors, the lack of school nurses, the loss of the arts in public schools, Zero Tolerance

IEPs for All—Or Something Else?

September 9, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Some of us imagined a public school system that would drop special education labels and look at all children individually and collectively for their strengths and what they need to learn. We thought of it as Individual Educational Plans (IEPs) for everyone. You will likely hear about “IEPs for All” in the future, if you […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Alligned, Asynchronous Learning, Blended Learning, Brick-and-Mortar Schools, Computers, Differentiated Learning, Flipped Classrooms, IEP, Individual Educational Plans, Individualize, Online Learning, Personalized Learning, Synchronous Learning, teachers, Testing Online, UDL, Universal Design for Learning, Virtual Schools

Announcing My New Website Format and Blog!

April 14, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

My new website covers Activism and School Curriculum and I still have the Blog. It is more manageable now. Point and clink on the title and the link should appear. The Activism site focuses on groups , organizations and people who are currently working to oppose the harmful reform taking place in our public schools. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Technology Tagged With: activism, blog, curriculum, math, public schools, reading, science, social studies, special education, the arts, website

Mayors Go Looking for Bill Gates’ Education Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow

March 17, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

US mayors went to Washington DC the other day to talk about education issues with Bill Gates—the richest man in the world. Struggling to fiscally keep their cities alive, mayors will do anything to draw in the Gates’ dollars. And you wonder why he is in charge of education in America. It’s like Leprechauns finding […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Bill Gates, Common Core, Conference, Mayors

STEM and Common Core—How Much SCIENCE are Elementary Students Really Getting?

January 9, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Even though students today, in reality, sound capable to tackle STEM jobs, what about the students of tomorrow? With the heavy push for high-stakes testing, the questionable negative rhetoric by the Obama Administration and others about STEM, and the dramatic changes to the curriculum with Common Core State Standards, is this country going to wake […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Technology Tagged With: Common Core, elementary school, science, STEM

Bill Gates and Kindy Coding

December 29, 2013 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

The Memphis Commercial Appeal recently had an article about a private school incorporating iPad computing coding for kindergarteners. At first I was appalled. Kindergarteners? Coding? Why, they should be learning to tie their shoes! Then, after sputtering a few cuss words (nothing too bad) to myself, especially when I saw Bill Gates name and the […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Bill Gates, charter schools, child development, coding, computer programming, Hour of Code, iPads, kindergarten, teachers

Before Common Core—IDEA and Aligning IEPs to Regular Standards

December 26, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

While Common Core’s focus on math and English language arts does nothing to address the needs of students with disabilities, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) re-authorizations weren’t great either. Much of IDEA (the changing of PL-94-142) was to make students with disabilities over into normalized regular ed. students. Individual Educational Plans were to […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education, Technology Tagged With: Assistive Technology, Common Core, IDEA, IEP, Individual Educational Plan, individualized, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, personalized attention, standards

Drat Common Core and Potty iPads! Use This Instead to Teach a Child to Read

December 8, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Don’t bank on narrow Common Core English language arts skills to teach your child to read. From what I see and hear, over and over, CC increases stress and reduces a lot of students to tears. It pushes very young children to read more difficult material before they are developmentally ready, and it focuses too […]

Filed Under: Reading, Teaching, Technology Tagged With: Common Core. iPad potty., early reading, joy, pictures, Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever, words

Homemade Activities to Target Disabilities (and/or Just for Fun)–Puzzles!

December 1, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Just in time for the holidays! I have blogged about not letting the current issues in public schools steal the today that you have enjoying your children and helping them to learn. I know that is easier said than done. But the teacher and mom in me wants to step away from criticism against Common […]

Filed Under: Special Education, Technology Tagged With: homemade activities, learning disabilties, puzzles

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nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
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Could Common Core, along with NCLB be driving the Science of Reading? Do SoR supporters ever critique these programs fairly?

Paul Thomas @plthomasEdD

If you buy the SOR movement, and think criticism of it is off-base, PLEASE review the Common Core movement:

Uncritically embraced, implemented and drove HUGE ***edu-market rebranding***, teacher retraining, and curriculum changes ... before imploding and ...

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plthomasedd Paul Thomas @plthomasedd ·
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If you are making claims about education/reading and insist on using NRP as proof while also misrepresenting NRP findings, your entire argument has lost its footing. NRP = limited, 20+ yrs old, did *not* prove all Ss need systematic phonics

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readingforum_ed thereadingforum @readingforum_ed ·
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Catherine Snow has done amazing reading research - well worth checking out her studies as well as this
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/23/03/harvard-edcast-weather-literacy-crisis-do-what-works

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lauranbowman Laura Bowman @lauranbowman ·
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Thank you, ⁦@JamaalBowmanNY⁩. “Question them. Force them to respond to the question, ‘Why the hell don’t you do anything to save America’s children?’ And let them explain that all the way up until 2024.”” https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3924968-watch-lawmakers-get-in-shouting-match-outside-house-floor-over-gun-control/

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Where will Judy and Faith meet for their one year anniversary birthday bash? Who will be their next guest on The Literacy View? @BoksnerJudy @LindsayKemeny @NancyEBailey1 @FaithBorkowsky Listen to Facebook LIVE‼️🎉👏👏👏🍎🗽

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