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Teaching and Purpose: A Response to Bill Gates and his Purpose Problem

July 21, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 15 Comments

I recently ran across Bill Gates’s blog. He was reviewing Yuval Noah Harari’s book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. The title of his post was, “The Purpose Problem: What if People Run Out of Things to Do?” Gates ironically reflects on what it means to have purpose in one’s life. I say ironically, […]

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Proficiency-Based Learning: Focused on Skills While Missing the Big Picture

June 13, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

…tests are now broken down into specific sets of skills so teachers can identify how well students understand each task. When students get less than a proficient score, they must go back and study the skill they missed. They are then given a chance to retake the relevant portions of the test until they earn […]

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Universal Design for Learning or Microcosm for Destruction?

December 3, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 26 Comments

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a part of the new Every Student Succeeds Act. It promotes what is heralded as a new way to reach students with diverse needs. It sounds new agey. But what does this miracle program have that those of us who worked in special education for years don’t? You may, […]

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The LA Times Editorial—A Distraction

June 2, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

There’s so much bad news about public schools. When one article makes you want to pop the cork and dance in the streets, it is easy to get excited. Don’t. The tables haven’t really been turned. The LA Times Editorial criticizes the Gates Foundation for their poor philanthropic use of billions of dollars spent on […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Gates, charter schools, Competency-Based Learning, iNacol, LA Times Editorial, Online Learning, Personalized Learning, Proficiency-Based Learning, public schools

Gambling on Fast-Track Teachers in Nevada and Beyond and Personalized Learning

January 27, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Nevada school officials claim they can’t find 1,000 teachers to fill their classrooms. Education Week is claiming this isn’t much different than what’s found in the rest of the country. In the middle of it all you will think about Personalized Learning. Education Week won’t let you forget it. If you don’t have a need […]

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Nancy Bailey looks at how the inheritors of the education hit piece, A Nation at Risk, continue to depend on forcing toddlers to grow faster, somehow. #inappropriate

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First, children are pushed to read before they're ready, and then they fail third grade because they need more time to learn to be better readers. How does this create better readers? Children will hate reading.

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Research is clear: Third-grade retention is an unnecessary, ineffective practice that demoralizes children. @SecCardona should speak to this terrible practice.

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Research is clear: Third-grade retention is an unnecessary, ineffective practice that demoralizes children. @SecCardona should speak to this terrible practice. https://www.wsfa.com/2023/09/14/12k-third-graders-risk-being-held-back-under-alabama-literacy-act-superintendent-warns/?fbclid=IwAR1CHkRIZN1CmXlVuA_uTS6zU8IQOGO0_FkQPuAHvW_tKX2Ose25DLeuRdQ

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