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Kindergarten Reading Push: Still Problematic During the Pandemic

August 3, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Parents and educators, convinced that kindergartners must learn to read, might purchase unproven commercial online reading programs during the pandemic. The best solution for kindergartners currently is for school librarians and teachers to get interesting picture books and reading material into the hands of young children. Standardized testing made pushing children to read in kindergarten […]

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Bill & Melinda Gates Don’t Discuss Their Takeover of America’s Public Schools

March 8, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 15 Comments

Bill and Melinda Gates’s 2019 letter “We Didn’t See This Coming,” is filled with their concerns and optimism about everything from commodes to climate change. Always eager to discuss their global initiatives to help the poor, and a variety of other endeavors, they say little about the aggressive ways they are remaking public education to their […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, books, charter schools, Common Core, Data Collection, Librarians, libraries, Privatization of Public Education, Public School Takeover, reading, reading gains, school libraries, Teacher Effectiveness

Technology or Books? The Right Book for Christmas and the Holidays

December 22, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

When I was a child, my aunt and uncle, who lived in Chicago, would always send me a cool present for Christmas. I would eagerly run home from school looking for that package attached to the mailbox. It would be wrapped in brown paper and string. The packaging paper would be removed on Christmas Eve, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Book Gifts, books, Books and film, Gifts for Christmas, Happy Holidays!, Merry Christmas, reading, reading difficulties, Reading Interests, Screen Time, teaching, Technology

How Did We Learn to Read? Is There a Teacher to Thank?

May 8, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 15 Comments

The debate surrounding how to teach children to read is ongoing. What we tend to forget and ignore is how we learned to read ourselves. I think it’s important to address what helped make us the readers we are today, or what problems we encountered. Perhaps we can recall what worked, and what didn’t, by […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: books, dyslexia, Learning to Read, libraries, reading, reading difficulties

The Library Stayed Open in Baltimore…

April 29, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Last night, a former librarian whom I’ve gotten to know through FB, posted an article about how the library did not close in Baltimore during the height of the unrest. I found this almost spiritual in its significance. Libraries to me are filled with hope and meaning. The library also stayed open in Ferguson during […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Baltimore, books, poverty, Public Library, Public School Libraries, reading

Butterfly in the Sky? Educational Programs for Children

June 1, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

There has been a lot of buzz over Levar Burton’s Kickstarter campaign, here, to bring Reading Rainbow back as an app. Sorry for you folks who don’t have access to Netflix Streaming, iPad, iPhones, Xbox, or computer internet TV. There will be no butterfly in the sky returning to PBS. If you are lucky, and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: books, Common Core Alignment, Reading Rainbow, Stories, TV programming

Reading Instruction—Same Old Ugly Story

December 30, 2013 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

A conversation on Facebook about reading became touchy yesterday, reminding me that you only need to scratch the surface to find serious differences when it comes to education and public policy. While many come together against Common Core State Standards, yesterday’s arguing resulted from the same old differences about how to approach reading…phonics or whole […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Reading, Special Education Tagged With: books, Common Core, community libraries, credentialed librarians, credentialed teachers, dyslexia, fiction, learning disabilities, nonfiction, phonics, reading, school libraries, small class sizes, whole language

Mr. Duncan—A Few Reasons Why I Question Your September 30th Speech, “Beyond the Beltway Bubble.”

October 2, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Arne Duncan takes a lot of criticism from educators. They have never seen him as one of their own. For me personally, I wanted Linda Darling-Hammond to get the job. I don’t always agree with Darling-Hammond, but I do respect her as an educator and a researcher. When Mr. Duncan was hired I and a […]

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13 Apr

@BernieSanders Remembering 12 yr. old Deamonte Driver who died of an untreated tooth abscess in 2007. Still wondering how this can happen in America. https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/jun/13/healthcare-gap-how-can-a-child-die-of-toothache-in-the-us

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skrashenStephen Krashen@skrashen·
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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·
12 Apr

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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10 Apr

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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