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Common Core Creator Slammed Reading Teachers for Having a Research Gap—How Ironic

November 29, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Teachers have enough difficulties. Sometimes you find an article so full of hubris and irony it cannot be ignored. Several weeks ago, I criticized a series of reports about reading by journalist Emily Hanford. Hanford claimed teachers didn’t understand reading instruction and that their education schools failed to teach them what they should know. I made […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Colleges of Education, Common Core, Emily Hanford, phonics, reading, Reading Instruction, Susan Pimental

Using Teacher Shortage Talk to Justify Online Instruction

February 25, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

A few weeks ago Nick Morrison wrote an article for Forbes titled “Sleepwalking Our Way into the Teacher-Less Classroom.” He insists that technology, specifically the takeover by online instruction in schools, is not the real danger facing education. Instead, he claims it is a teacher shortage. According to Morrison, teachers leave due to pressure, and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: child development, Colleges of Education, Good School Facilities, Older Teachers, Positive School Climate, Relay Graduate School of Education, school reform, Solutions For, Teach for America, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Voice, The Future of Education

Another Teach For America Ra Ra Study to Slam Real Teacher Ed. Programs

November 3, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Tennessee is all abuzz with another study to go after real degreed and credentialed teachers. I say “real” because the powerhouses have even tampered with certification. In many places a certified teacher doesn’t mean what it used to mean. Teach for America and other alternative training programs rule in this state. They are running away […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Career Teachers, Colleges of Education, Credentials, Teach for America

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gwenblumberg Gwen Blumberg @gwenblumberg ·
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Honoring identity, ditching logs, levels as *teacher* tools, independent reading, student CHOICE, and honoring multimodal texts… Yes to all! ⁦@KQED⁩ https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61287/beyond-reading-logs-and-lexile-levels-supporting-students-multifaceted-reading-lives

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rachelannelevy Rachel for Delegate @rachelannelevy ·
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So excited to announce my endorsement by @clean_virginia & so grateful for their support.

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nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
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Science of Reading camp never discusses the importance of picture books. How much time do children get to explore them? How often are they read to for enjoyment? This is worrisome. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/26/the-science-of-reading-and-the-rejection-of-picture-books/

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nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
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@SecCardona @usedgov Wondering if every public school in the U.S. now offers quality art and music classes, & students have access to a rich arts program? Are the arts returning under the Biden administration? They've been missing in poor schools for awhile, since NCLB.

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doctorsam7 Dr. Sam Bommarito @doctorsam7 ·
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Thanks to @eriuqse695 for bringin this article to ur attention. Chall's views @ChaseJYoung1 @NarelleLyn @londonjohn9 @LRobbTeacher @ericlitwinbooks @pvalleybooks @JPageLiteracy @TCRecord @RacheGabriel @ssvincent @MicheleDufresne @plthomasEdD @EllinKeene @TimRasinski1 https://twitter.com/DoctorSam7/status/1640376017809289219

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@KJWinEducation Also, consider this well-researched piece indicating that the views of the extreme phonics folks don't square the views of Jean Chall, the researcher who championed the use of phonics during the last reading wars. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/26/the-science-of-reading-and-the-rejection-of-picture-books/?fbclid=IwAR3K0fz-cWKbAh-mitL347hMrWGEjC0Gtd_PIxegTc0RiuzPoXxXSdoW7Cg

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