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The Sad Impact of Corporate School Reform on Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities

January 26, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

We have a lot of troubled kids. As of 2016, approximately 1 in 5 youth aged 13–18 (21.4%) experiences a severe mental disorder at some point during their life. For children aged 8–15, the estimate is 13%. HERE. Schools should be on the front line to assist children and adolescents with mental health difficulties. But […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Art, Betsy DeVos, Children, Data collecting, eliminating special education services, emotional disabilities, high-stakes testing, inclusion, mental health, music, no excuses, One-size-fits-all, play, recess, Rewards, School Choice, Social Emotional Learning, Teach for America, teachers, teens

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

Brain-Based Learning: Pushing Children to Learn Faster—Why?

December 12, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 24 Comments

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~ Erma Bombeck (1927-1996), American author and humorist. Brain-based learning promotes the idea that children learn faster if they are taught differently. But why push children to learn faster than ever before? Why turn children into adults before they […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Brain-based learning, Hucksters, kindergarten, No Child Left Behind

Student Socialization in Public Schools

September 2, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Socialization you could say is how a child interacts with their peers. There are many definitions, but in school, socialization mostly involves how children play and get along with each other. We think of recess when considering socialization. We wonder how much socialization children miss when they don’t get recess. Public schools can go a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Children, Cultural Trends, Friends, Home Schools, Humanism, occupations, parents, Peer Groups, public schools, Religion, socialization, special education, students, teachers

States Lacking Mental Health Services for Kids–And Some Glimmers of Hope

June 29, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Marcie Lipsitt is a special education activist for children in Michigan, and she sent out a report about the serious loss of services there for children with mental health problems. It’s entitled, “In crisis, mentally ill children forced to wait days or weeks for hospital beds,” and includes the plight of a parent who has […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Children, Hawthorn Center, mental health, Mental Health Services, Michigan, public schools, states

Robin Williams and Lessons to Be Learned About Kids with Mental Illness in Public Schools

August 12, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

I have been reminded that Robin Williams died of a particularly severe neurological disease called Lewy Body Dementia. This is not a psychiatric disorder, so it is incorrect to associate Williams to mental illness. Unfortunately, this is an older post and the title is stuck. Still, the information about schools and mental illness I hope […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Children, current events, Mental Illness, Middle School, public schools, Robin Williams, special education, suicide

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@susanoha @NancyEBailey1 Krashen, S. 1998. Phonemic awareness training for prelinguistic children: Do we need prenatal PA? Reading Improvement 35: 167-171. http://www.sdkrashen.com/content/articles/prenatal_pa_training.pdf

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susanohaSusan Ohanian@susanoha·
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The last time I looked Norway was at top on international tests. They didn't start to teach reading until age 8 or 9 and then kids get a playtime break every hour.
Every hour. https://twitter.com/NancyEBailey1/status/1381335214711050240

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@buchananshelle3 @susanoha Good pt. And PreK and K reading assessments have been taking place for YEARS! Along with drills and more tests. If it worked why do children still have reading problems? Maybe bring back PLAY!

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leoniehaimsonleonie haimson@leoniehaimson·
10 Apr

There should no longer be any excuse for not lowering class size, which has been proven thru rigorous research to benefit all kids but especially those who are poor. Teachers know this, parents too, but where are those who control policies in our schools? https://www.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/9/22375692/biden-proposes-doubling-title-i-sending-high-poverty-schools

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With so many worrying about learning loss in young children, I thought it important to dig out this old post about reading. Please remember that formal reading instruction used to begin in first grade. https://nancyebailey.com/2014/02/02/setting-children-up-to-hate-reading/

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#edchat #ece #earlyed #AskingWhatIf https://twitter.com/Screensandkids/status/1380184169653878794

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#ECE expert @RaePica1 responds to VA digital device guidelines, "Why subject our children to all the health risks of digital devices when learning w/out devices is superior? The more senses we use in the learning process, the more information we retain." https://tinyurl.com/zay4c69z

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