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High School College: High School Hell!

November 18, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Freshmen are told on one hand not to worry about college, then given an early version of a college entrance exam three weeks into their first year of high school. ~Chicago Tribune Nov.13, 2017 Like kindergartners pushed to be first graders, high school is the new college. Teens are more anxious than ever. Depression and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: A Nation at Risk, Adolescence, Adolescents, Advanced Placement (AP), Anxiety, Every Child Succeeds Act, Extracurricular, Grit, High Schoo, homework, mindset, No Child Left Behind, Stress, Teenagers, the arts, The media

“Imploding” Healthcare and Destroying Public Schools and Picnics

July 31, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. ~Noam Chomsky “Imploding” the Healthcare System is Frightening and Unnecessary When it comes to healthcare, many breathed a sigh of relief. Because of Democrats and three courageous Republicans, it looks like there will […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: A Nation at Risk, Imploding Health Care, Imploding public schools, Milton Friedman, President Reagan, School Privatization

“Coaching” Applied to Teaching–Why I Don’t Like It

November 21, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

“Teaching Coaches” have become commonplace as public school curriculum is converted to Common Core. The plan is to enlist teachers, lots of them, to coach other teachers how to instruct using Common Core. In most places these teaching coaches get a stipend of $5-6,000 to help transform a school district into a Common Core wonderland. […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Teaching Tagged With: A Nation at Risk, coaching, Common Core, Sandia Report, teaching

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The State of School Recess in America is Still Terrible! - - Is this lack contributing to the deteriorating mental health of students? https://go.shr.lc/3yeH1Jz via @shareaholic

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The Real Reading Debate and How We Fail to Teach Reading https://radicalscholarship.com/2020/02/19/the-real-reading-debate-and-how-we-fail-to-teach-reading/ via @plthomasEdD

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I'm so happy Nancy Bailey reposted her 2014 piece that still rings true: Setting Children Up to Hate Reading

"Why are young children being made to learn at a faster rate?...
Great question!
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