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Alien School Invasion and Reformers With Erased Memories

October 31, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

They don’t recall the alien invasion, or recognize those who had part in it. The school reformers and their friends condemn public schools, mortified by senior NAEP scores (how could those teachers not teach reading?). They’ve forgotten the rotten changes to remake public schools. Parents once liked their public schools, and few were interested in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Houston Special Education Services, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Michigan School Reform, NAEP scores, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Race to the Top (RTTT)

Why is Common Core’s Phonics Missing in Reading and Dyslexia Discussions?

June 22, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Those who claim teachers and their education schools have focused on the wrong way to teach reading never mention Common Core State Standards. But, since 2010, Common Core has figured prominently in the reading curriculum teachers have been forced to teach. If students are showing increased reading problems, shouldn’t the English Language Arts standards be […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Featured Tagged With: Common Core Phonics, Common Core State Standards (CCSS), dyslexia, phonics, privatization, reading, Reading: Foundational Skills, School Privatization

How NCLB is Still Destroying Reading for Children 

February 12, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 19 Comments

NCLB was a bi-partisan bill signed into law in 2002 during the Bush administration’s push for school reform. We now recognize how punitive the bill was, its troubling use of one-size-fits-all standardized testing to demonize and close public schools, the punitive AYP and “highly qualified” teacher credentialing changes, the unrealistic predictions that all children would […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Defending the Early Years, developmental disabilities, Early Childhood, Kindergarten is the New First Grade, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), phonics, Picture Books, Reading in Kindergarten, Setting Children Up to Hate Reading, standardized testing, Teaching reading, The Alliance for Childhood, Valerie Strauss The Answer Sheet

What Santa Claus and Social-Emotional Learning Have in Common

December 20, 2018 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

You better watch out, you better not cry, Better not pout, I’m telling you why Santa Claus (and SEL assessment are) comin’ to town. ~Song lyrics to “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” by Songwriters: Haven Gillespie / J. Fred Coots (with alteration). Why is there such an intense push for social-emotional learning (SEL) involving young […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Behavior, behavioral assessment, Behavioral Problems, Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Online Social-Emotional Learning, Social Emotional Learning, social-emotional assessment, Social-Emotional Standards

Common Core State Standards Don’t Rhyme With Individual Educational Plans

March 25, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Originally Posted on October 3, 2013 by Nancy Bailey Think about it. Common Core State Standards do not rhyme with Individual Educational Plans. Say it slowly. Listen to the words. They don’t go together. The whole point of CCSS is for everyone to get to the same standard. It is the same goal. You can […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Individual Educational Plan (IEP), Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), PL 94-142, special education

It’s What President Obama Didn’t Say about Education in the State of the Union Address….

January 29, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

The president, of course, could not speak about all the following disputes in one State of the Union Address. But the problem is he rarely speaks about these issues with the American people. There is little, if any, discussion or debate. The president might be surprised to find not everyone approves of his education policies. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: college and careers, Common Core State Standards (CCSS), crumbling school infrastructure, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)student privacy and safety, high-stakes testing, innovation, Rae to the Top, school closures, special education, Teach for America, the arts, Universal Pre-K

Common Core State Standards and Students with Autism—The Shoe Doesn’t Fit

January 23, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 24 Comments

Let me say up front, that I don’t think Common Core State Standards are shoes that fit any child, but the standards are especially insidious for students with disabilities, who were promised something different with the original Public Law 94-142. Recently I read an article in Teaching Exceptional Children from a year ago. It was entitled, “Meeting […]

Filed Under: Common Core Tagged With: atypical children, Autism, Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Council for Exceptional Children, institutions, parents, Teaching Exceptional Children

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SecCardonaSecretary Miguel Cardona@SecCardona·
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Thanks to @POTUS & the FTC, we are working to strengthen privacy protections for our children and students. This work ensures that companies cannot exploit our children to make money.

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Vote4HammondMike Hammond@Vote4Hammond·
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The education “report” released yesterday is a brochure produced by a non-VA company who’s entire goal is to remove money and students from public education.

We need to invest more into our public schools now, not less, to provide a quality education for every student in VA.

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NaderDIssaNader Issa@NaderDIssa·
20 May

Breaking: A massive data breach has exposed four years’ worth of records of almost 500,000 Chicago Public Schools students and nearly 60,000 employees, district officials told principals today. w/ @bylaurenfitz https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2022/5/20/23132983/cps-public-schools-data-breach-students-employees-records-battelle-kids

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20 May

@missme1on and the Race to the Top finished anyone left.

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20 May

No Child Left Behind left an entire generation behind.

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