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Pandemic Learning Loss Reports That Sell Online Programs Are Harmful For Students With Disabilities

July 26, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Reports telling of pandemic learning loss to sell programs, especially online programs, are harmful to students with disabilities who often had a difficult time being schooled at home with virtual learning. One can only assume that students might be behind. But it’s detrimental, especially for children who often have motivation problems, to repeatedly hear they’ll […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Acceleration, children with disabilities, Covid Slide, covid-19, learning loss, Pandemic learning loss, the pandemic

Who Does the Biden/Sanders Education Unity Panel Unite?

May 16, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

Many want to say good riddance to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her boss. But educators and parents fighting for public education, and the ninety percent of students who attend public schools, deserve a more inclusive group of people to push back on harmful school reform. The Biden/Sanders Unity Education Task Force leaves much to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Biden-Sanders Education Unity Panel, black and brown parent advocates, charter schools, children with disabilities, public schools, School Privatization, Social Emotional Learning

Betsy DeVos’s Education Freedom: It’s Anything But

September 15, 2019 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Betsy DeVos rarely makes a statement without referring to her idea of Education Freedom. She is, of course, referring to school vouchers. But as education secretary she has been more about denying students true education freedom. DeVos stands for the opposite of educational freedom! As she travels around the country promoting her agenda, here’s a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Children at the border, children with disabilities, class size, College and Career, Education Freedom, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Public Schools on Military Bases, Special Education and FAPE, Student Debt, the Military

Dads and Children With Disabilities

June 16, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Happy Father’s Day! There’s little research on the role of fathers when it comes to raising children with disabilities. This underrepresentation has meant that most questionnaires about this topic have reflected the mother’s point of view. But that’s changing. In honor of dads today, I decided to study some of the research that’s out there […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism, children with disabilities, Dads with children who have disabilities, Happy Father's Day, Profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD)

If You Feel Like Grandma Who Got Run Over By a Reindeer—Don’t Despair!

December 21, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

If your child is doing well and you are happy about public school you probably don’t need to read any further. If your house is decorated well enough to win a Martha Stewart contest, and your Christmas dinner was cooked and frozen in neat Zip Lock bags and Rubbermaid containers weeks ago, then you can […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: children with disabilities, Christmas, Common Core, community, high-stakes testing, hope, opting out of the test, public schools, support, Teach for America

Twenty Ways to Break a Child’s Spirit—The New School Reforms

October 12, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Part II   11-20 Here are the last of the 20 ways current school reforms could break a child’s spirit. Sadly, you probably will be able to think of others. Share them all with those who think the current reforms are going well. 11.  Children are forced to take tests at an early age. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/kindergarten-tough-multiple-choice-tests-article-1.1481197. 12.  […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: children with disabilities, college and career ready, early childhood education, large class sizes, phonics, school reforms, testing

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Pictures are paramount for children learning to read. Lately, they're getting a bad rap. Here's an outline of what children learn through picture books they like.

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Did Gov. Youngkin drive away teachers to provide profits?

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Pictures are paramount for children learning to read. Lately, they're getting a bad rap. Here's an outline of what children learn through picture books they like. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/09/27/how-picture-books-help-teach-comprehension-and-phonics/

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jerseyjazzman Jersey Jazzman @jerseyjazzman ·
26 Sep

See, you give schools with lots of kids in poverty a little extra money, and soon they say they need more for healthy buildings and well-paid teachers and small class sizes and all the "extras" affluent schools get. I mean, where does it end?

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What is it with rich dudes and their obsession with controlling teachers? @joyceforeman16 @Lori4DISD @CoalitionEquity @brett_shipp @DianeBirdwell @ed_hog @valeriestrauss @NancyEBailey1 @tultican @deutsch29blog

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