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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

Why Are Schools Opening When Covid-19 is Surging?

January 6, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

It has become a cruel joke. Shut everything down! Stay home! Cancel the holidays! Close everything! But open schools! Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious diseases expert, told Americans to stay home throughout the holiday season, avoid groups, wash hands, wear masks, and stay socially distanced. There’s a horrific death count in case […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Center for Disease Control (CDC), children and Covid-19, covid-19, Dr, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Wen, Princeton Study about Covid-19, Redfield, School openings, Superspreaders, the Coronavirus, the learning curve experiment

Amplify and iReady Claim Kindergarten and First Grade “Reading Loss” to Profit From the Pandemic

December 30, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Are kindergartners falling behind in reading due to the pandemic? Amplify and iReady want us to think so. But kindergarten teachers should not be forcing children to learn to read during the pandemic. They shouldn’t have been pushing them to read before Covid-19. Nor should kindergartners be forced to read after the coronavirus becomes a […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amplify, assessment, Covid Slide, covid-19, DIBELS, first grade reading, iReady, Kindergarten reading, profiting on reading, Reading Expectations, the Pandemic learning loss

Education Unity? Save Democratic Public Schools!

November 10, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris! How refreshing to hear a President speak of uniting the country and saving America’s democratic institutions. One of the largest institutions is the public school system, run by local school boards, supported by the states, with oversight and administration by the federal government. President Biden […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood, charter schools, data collection and privacy, Defending the Early Years, early childhood education, National Education Policy Center, Pay for Success, reading, School Buildings, school staff, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Preparation, Technology

Selling Charter School Class Size as “Innovative Medical Experimentation” During Covid-19

October 14, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Efforts to destroy public schooling in America have not disappeared during the pandemic. While Education Secretary Betsy DeVos displays her hatred for public education, especially with Fairfax County public school teachers, DC Charter Schools are advertising innovations during the pandemic.  They’re promoting smaller class sizes as innovative medical experimentation. Their innovations, however, are not ingenious. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: charter schools, class size, Coronavirus and Schools, covid-19, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, innovation, pandemic, public schools

Public Schools and School Libraries: The “Hub” of Democracy During a Crisis, Is Facing Its Own Crisis

October 2, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

A public school is the hub of the American community, and school libraries provide students the knowledge to better understand their world. But public schools and school libraries face a crisis at this time in history, and it’s important to question what has happened with CARES Act funding. Americans in crisis recognize that public schools […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: anytime anyplace learning, CARES Act, community libraries, counselors, Digital Learning, Librarians, museums as schools, public school hubs, public schools, public schools during a crisis, school staff, teachers, Technology

Learning Management Software: Necessary Tool, or Wasteful Cash Cow in the Time of Covid-19?

September 29, 2020 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

By Darren Victory One thing is clear: Teaching in the age of COVID is no picnic. Teachers, students, and caregivers are struggling to navigate the ongoing crisis in ways that preserve their emotional and physical health. It all feels so chaotic, so disorganized, and at times so… impossible. No wonder wine sales have shot through […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: covid-19, Learning Management Software (LMS), teaching, Technology and Schools

The Covid-19 Experiment: Facing the Sins of a Nation that Quit Caring About Public Education Long Ago

August 10, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

Using the word “experimenting” when it comes to opening schools is not comforting to parents and teachers. For teachers, it’s like rubbing salt in a wound. What this pandemic has brought to light are the past inequities of public education, inequities that have been all about dismantling America’s public schools. It has included the disregard […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Covid-19 and schools, Large Class Size, loss of recess, outdoor learning, playgrounds, poor school ventilation systems, recess, school facilities, school overcrowding, School Privatization, social distancing

32 Reasons Why Schools Should NOT Reopen in the Fall

June 28, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 214 Comments

Well-meaning parents and school boards have been working remotely to determine how to safely reopen schools, but these plans are filled with uncertainty. Many of the changes make schools unrecognizable. The Coronavirus has involved conflicting information. Now we’re seeing an uptick in cases. It’s not what anyone wants, but fall doesn’t seem like a good […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Coronovirus and Schools, covid-19, Covid-19 and the flu, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Gov. Ron DeSantis, President Trump, Remote learning, Reopening public schools, Reopening schools, solutions to staying home from school during coronavirus, Teachers and Exposure to Covid-19

Beware of Education Frenemies!

May 28, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Frenemies are everywhere when it comes to public education, while many of us fear disaster capitalism as the future of public schools. Dictionary.com defines frenemy as a person or group that is friendly toward another because the relationship brings benefits, but harbors feelings of resentment or rivalry. What makes an education frenemy and not an […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: covid-19, Education Reformers, Frenemies, losing public schools, public schools, school financial matters

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Not sure I could agree more...thanks @NancyEBailey1

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Unstructured play has been driven out of early childhood classrooms for years! Goals are to micromanage everything a child does. Few seem to connect play's importance to learning & mental health, or they don't care if schools fail. https://twitter.com/Cabal_Educator/status/1630938079170109440

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Let them play!

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Science of Reading camp never discusses the importance of picture books. How much time do children get to explore them? How often are they read to for enjoyment? This is worrisome. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/26/the-science-of-reading-and-the-rejection-of-picture-books/

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@BetsyDeVos So much research shows that 3rd gr retention is bad for students it's hard to believe you think this is fine. There are many alternatives. https://nancyebailey.com/2017/10/09/force-flunk-destroying-a-childs-love-of-reading-and-their-life/

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We "get to know where the money is being spent"? Great! So every private school receiving tax dollars will have to open their books and be subject to the same standards of financial transparency as public schools, right? Right?

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