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Arne Duncan Continues to Push Dangerous Corporate School Reform

December 26, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

With Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, it might be tempting to see Arne Duncan as an educational expert, but Duncan has never formally studied education, or been a teacher. Duncan paved the way for DeVos. EdSurge recently brought us Arne Duncan’s 6 lessons about education. They are nothing but the same old corporate reforms that have […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, class size, Corporate Reforms, early childhood education, Education in Other Countries, Finland, Jobs of the future, Lessons learned, Online assessment, Online testing, school-to-work, teachers, Technology

Who Arne Duncan is Today Speaks To His Past Role as Education Secretary

August 12, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently stepped away from his ventures to discuss his new book How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest Serving Secretaries of Education. Few teachers were impressed with Duncan in this role. He never worked in a school. He’d never been a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Betsy DeVos, Corporate Reform, School Privatization, school reform, teachers, Technology

Liking Those We Don’t Like: The Dissonance Involved with Supporting Public Schools

January 9, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Most teachers see the good in everyone. They go into teaching because they care about children, and they take what happens in life personally. They are usually defiantly protective of their turf. Many years ago, I started out disliking the late Benjamin O. Canada, who was superintendent of Atlanta and one of the first school leaders […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Bernie Sanders, Bill & Melinda Gates, Corporations, Corporations and public schools, Golden Globes, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Oprah, President Obama, School Privatization, school reform, Technology and Schools, Tom Hanks, XQ Super Schools

Dyslexia, The DeVos Vote, and a Senator’s Lost Credibility

February 10, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

There were several senators who I expected would change their vote on Betsy DeVos. In the end none of them did, and I think they need to called-out. Their votes for DeVos were especially unethical due to their past positions, or where they are from. I will write today about one, William Cassidy, M.D., who […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, dyslexia, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, IDEA, Senator William CAssidy Jr (R-LA)

Killing Teacher Prep During a Teacher Shortage: A Mystery? (Maybe Not)

October 14, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Are you in the mood for a mystery? Education Secretary John King recently came out with the intent to kill university teacher prep programs. His predecessor Arne Duncan, who never taught a day in his life, cheered him on. They will do this by denying future teachers TEACH grants to go into teacher preparation programs. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Hargreaves Charles Fadel, Arne Duncan, Clayton Christensen Institute, Competency-Based Instruction, Diane Ravitch, Digital Learning, Education Secretary, Facilitators, Howard Gardner, i3, John King, Julia Freland Fisher, Online Learning, Personalized Learning, Public School Transformation, Randi Weingarten, Relay Graduate School of Education, Teacher Leaders, Teacher Preparation, Teacher Shortage, Technology

Discounting Learning Disabilities in B.C., AU, U.S., and England–and Finding HOPE

March 8, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Are they ending special education programs where you live? It turns out this is happening around the world. Parents with students who have learning disabilities can’t find assistance, or, like in England, they are mistreated in institutions. But don’t give up. There is hope, as I explain at the end of this post. Parents in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abbottsford, Arne Duncan, Australia, British Columbia, California, Competency-Based Instruction, England, institutions, Lawsuit, learning disabilities, New York City, New York Regents

School Reformers Who Blame Public Schools for Eliminating Special Education

October 12, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

I see Washington Post Columnist Jay Matthews as someone who usually cheerleads for privatization of public schools. I take issue with his Sunday Washington Post article “How can a special education student fail finals yet pass? Sadly, it’s easy.” Oh help! Is this not a case of the right hand not being able to find […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Chicago Public Schools, High School, Jay Matthews, Resource Classes, Self-Contined Classrooms, special education, Special Education Services, testing, U.S. Dept. of Education

The Duncan/King Robots and the Revolving Door

October 4, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Much rejoicing took place Friday when it was first announced that Arne Duncan was leaving the Obama administration early. Social media was a-buzz poking fun at the Secretary of Education who will now ride into the sunset to make money likely in the private sector, probably with something having to do with children. When you […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, education reform, Eli Broad's Academy, John B. King, Jr., Margaret Spellings, NCLB, President Obama, Rod Paige, RTTT

U.S. DOE Continues to Force Test Failure on Children with Special Needs and ELL Students

July 1, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

According to information given to me by Deborah Abramson Brooks Wsm, the U.S. Dept. of Education is insisting that the New York Board of Education continue to force all students with disabilities, except for those with the severest disabilities, to take the tests matching their chronological age, not their developmental age, ignoring their cognitive disabilities. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, dyslexia, New York, special education, testing, U.S. Department of Education

Tricky Business in New York Special Ed. and Maybe Where You Live

November 9, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

By Monica Kennedy Kounter I am a parent of a special needs child, a certified lay advocate, and I have a Master’s of Science in Early Childhood Education. I have been fighting Common Core on the behalf of students with disabilities in New York State for a year now. I am a relative newcomer to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Classification, Common Core, disabilities, IDEA, Identification, New York, special education, Teacher Evaluations, testing

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