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A Chat About Public Schools with Eli Broad’s Ghost

June 13, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

When someone gets to the other side, if they look back, do they question how they could have led their life differently, in this case, in particular, the late Eli Broad and his influence on public education? First, it’s troubling the United States doesn’t tax the wealthy the way they should and that Americans don’t […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art, Broad prize for Urban education, Broad superintendency academy, charter schools, education, Eli Broad, Network for Public Education, New Leaders, public schools, science, The Broad Center at Yale, venture philanthropy

Art at Home, Then Put it Back In Public Schools!

June 15, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Teachers teach remotely, and parents are helping students at home. Hopefully, children and teens are doing art. Self-expression is important, and art calms and leads to self-discovery. When public schools reopen, when it’s safe to do so, parents and teachers must demand a return of art education with qualified art teachers! Music and drama are […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art, art for students with disabilities, fully fund public school art classes, pubic school art programs, qualified art teachers, teaching art, the importance of art classes in poor schools, underfunded schools

A Student’s Mental Health Could Depend on Putting the Arts Back into the Public School Curriculum

September 21, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Safety commissions, school districts, PTAs, and other groups and individuals have discussed school safety. One smart move would be to ensure that every school has a legitimate arts program including visual arts, music, drama, and dance. Students who struggle with mental health problems might benefit from the arts. Every child should have access. Students should […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art, Dance, Drama, mental health, music, privatization, Public School Privatization, Public School Privatization of the Arts, public schools, Public schools and mental health, Public schools and the arts, school safety, the arts

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

The Lopsided Curriculum: Where are Science, Social Studies and the Arts?

March 19, 2016 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Little children are like sponges, soaking up knowledge of the world around them every minute. So when they start formal education, how much science, social studies and the arts do students in elementary school get? Teaching these subjects used to be important. Learning in these areas sent some of us into our future professions. We […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art, Common Core, Drama, high-stakes testing, Lopsided School Curriculum, music, PARCC, SBAC, science, social studies, the arts

Got Art? How Much Art Do Students Get in School?

August 13, 2015 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for. Georgia O’Keeffe The new school year is starting and I’d like to hear how much art students get? Do children in preschool do art? Kindergartners—how much art will they find between […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art, Art Instruction, Credentialed Art Teachers, public schools

Always Give Students a Chance

May 23, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

In my freshman year in college I signed up for Art 101. The class was merry and a nice respite from all the reading and testing involved with hard core basic subjects freshmen take. Make no mistake I was no future Rembrandt. But I enjoyed the class so much that I boldly signed up for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art, Believing in Yourself, Chances, Confidence, Individualized Teaching, Teaching Confidence

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