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What’s Individualized about the IEP and ESSA?

July 5, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

I am reviving an old post that raises questions about the relevancy of the Individualized Educational Plan when it is written according to the general grade level content  standards. If everyone is expected to be alike, how important is the IEP? Under the Every Student Succeeds Act almost all students with disabilities must follow the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Individual Educational Plans (IEPs), No Child Left Behind (NCLB), PL 94-142, standards

Teacher Age Discrimination During a So-Called Teacher Shortage

August 16, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 176 Comments

Jeb Bush is 62. Hillary Clinton is 67. Donald Trump is 69 and Bernie Sanders is 73. If these individuals were teaching in a public school, and not famous politicians, what would you bet that they’d still be working? How many older teachers do you know who are still teaching? While there is much gnashing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Age Discrimination, Ageism, AP, Bernie Sanders, Bill Gates, College Board, Common Core, Donald Trump, Eli Broad, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, NEA, public schools, teachers

Senator Bernie Sanders and K-12 Education: We’re Listening!

July 6, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

Bernie fever is sweeping the Internet. I like Sen. Sanders. He says a lot of things that make me want to jump up and shout YES! You Go Bernie! But I, like many others, am still listening for the specifics when it comes to education and public schools. On the issue of K-12 education he […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, charter schools, Common Core, education, ESEA, preschool, public schools, Sen. Bernie Sanders, special education, Teach for America

Students and Bears, Oh My! How Common Core Discards the Importance of Reasoning and Intuition

June 20, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

This post is about reasoning and intuition with students and bears, and what we have lost by focusing on Common Core State Standards and not the students themselves. There are interesting similarities. Let me start with bears. I just returned from visiting Glacier National Park. Glacier is full of bears—both grizzlies and black bears. So, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bears, Behavior, Common Core, Intuition, learning, Reasoning, special education, teaching

Stealing the Joy of Reading—How Common Core Destroys Reading Pleasure

June 9, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 23 Comments

Who would have believed that it would come to this? Education Week is having a webinar on new approaches to reading aloud in K-2nd grade (New Strategies for Reading Aloud to K-2 Students, Thurs. June 18, 2-3 p.m ET). The underwriting for the webinar is through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and with Common […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Evidence, Joy of Reading, Librarians, parents, reading, Reading Aloud, teachers, vocabulary

The Scientific BS Surrounding Common Core and Teaching Vocabulary

May 21, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

I am going to be a BS detector. The Common Core State Standards are made to appear complicated. Fancy codes and scientific sounding big words are used to wow the public. But if you look at the standards, they’re nothing innovative or new! Take vocabulary. Teachers have been teaching vocabulary since the beginning of time. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Scientific Words, teachers, vocabulary

The Common Core “Deep Learning” Message that All Students are Gifted is Wrong

May 18, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

…in the ordinary elementary school situation, children of 140 IQ waste half their time. Those of 170 IQ waste practically all their time. — gifted education pioneer Leta Hollingworth, found in Genius Denied, by Jan and Bob Davidson A recent report implied that with the right kind of environment and “deep learning” everyone can be […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, deep learning, Gifted Characteristics, Gifted Education

Susan Ohanian Champion of Children

February 10, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

One of the nice things about having a blog is you can write about people who you respect and admire. I have not written for a while about anyone, because there are so many people who grab my attention every day for all the positive things they do for children. And also because there are […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, National Education Policy Center, standards, Substance News, Susan Ohanian, The World of Opportunity

Laura Ingalls Wilder Meets Common Core

February 7, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 53 Comments

When I was a child, in 3rd grade, I fell in love with Little House in the Big Woods. I distinctly remember locating it in the little classroom library. I am not sure if I read it before or after Caddie Woodlawn, another fine chapter book about strong pioneer girls. There were no benchmarks—I don’t […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Laura Ingalls Wilder, reading

How to Be a Nice Teacher When You’re Mad and Treated Badly

January 20, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

I wanted to write something that had to do with teachers in relationship to Martin Luther King Day and this is what I came up with. Teachers are genuinely nice people. If you work with children you teach them to be nice and respectful to others. Most people go into teaching because they are happy […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Teaching Tagged With: Common Core, MLK Day, Sandia Report, teachers

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EricCeresaEric Ceresa@EricCeresa·
16 Jan

@clay_mcch @NancyEBailey1 This is an excellent argument for raising teachers' pay, not any sort of argument against a $15 min wage. And raising the min wage DOES raise wages for workers near the minimum. We just don't usually think about the fact that teachers fit that definition.

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tulticanThomas Ultican@tultican·
16 Jan

Charter Schools Are Killing Saint Louis Public. The City Is Nailing The Coffin Shut. by Lexi Perez Lane https://link.medium.com/8taMmwG44cb

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clay_mcchClay McChristian@clay_mcch·
15 Jan

So Biden’s $15 minimum wage comes out to $31,200 a year for a 40 hour work week. The starting salary for a beginning teacher in Texas is $33,660. So a person working a minimum wage job will be making almost the same as a teacher with a college degree. Does this make any sense? 🤷‍♂️

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chicagospedpacChicago SpedPac@chicagospedpac·
15 Jan

.@ChiPubSchools can you tell us how many specIal educators were forced to resign this week due to your policy of not accommodating remote instruction? Break it down by SpEd teachers, SECAs and clinicians

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susanohaSusan Ohanian@susanoha·
15 Jan

The authors consider the ways in which educational responses to COVID19 exemplify opportunistic disaster
capitalism.
Disaster Capitalism, Rampant EdTech
Opportunism, and the Advancement of
Online Learning in the Era of COVID19
https://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/issue/current

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