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15 Strange and Scary Goings-On Surrounding Covid-19, Schools, and Teaching

October 12, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

How to handle a pandemic is a new territory for school officials and educators. Here are some observations of odd and downright scary practices surrounding the disease and school attendance. Adults online. Students are in-person. School board members meet online to discuss business. They’re worried about catching the virus, but they determine it’s best to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Catholic Schools, coronavirus, covid-19, hybrid teaching, in-person school, masks, plexiglass, principals, private schools, religious schools, Remote learning, simultaneously teaching, social distancing, standardized testing, teacher planning time, teachers

Betsy DeVos and the Separation of Church and State During Covid-19

September 17, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who is supposed to represent public schools, recently visited a Catholic school in Grand Rapids. She used this school to irresponsibly drive home the idea that it’s safe to have in-person classes. She said All schools in MI need an in-person option. Sacred Heart shows that it can be done. Then […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, covid-19, public schools, school safety, Schools opening, Separation of Church and State

Impact of President Trump’s Covid-19 Deception on Public Schools

September 13, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

The chief function of a President is to make responsible decisions and to keep Americans safe, especially children and society’s most vulnerable. Bob Woodward, in his new book Rage tells of a president who was publicly playing down the coronavirus threat without acknowledging the severity of the virus, which has now claimed over 190,000 American […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bob Woodward's book, charter schools, coronavirus, covid-19, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, opening public schools, President Trump, private schools, public schools

Stop Covid-19 Career Comparison Guilting! Teachers Aren’t Flight Attendants Or . . .

August 12, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Every job faces its own Covid-19 difficulties, but there should be no comparison guilting. Every job is different. Teachers face comparison attacks, with no consideration of the uniqueness found in the school environment. Teachers are not taking an extended vacation. They’re working around the clock to teach children safely whether in school or remotely. Some […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: career comparison guilting during Covid-19, coronavirus, covid-19, Flight Attendants, Grocery Store Workers, nurses, Pediatricians, Retail Workers

Poor Air Quality in Schools: During Covid-19 and Before!

July 20, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

For years this country has ignored school infrastructure due to attempts to privatize public education. This includes indoor air quality (IAQ). It has been a part of the overall disinvestment in America’s public schools. We’re told by the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and others, that schools should ensure clean air during Covid-19. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, covid-19, Indoor air quality (IAQ), school air quality, School Maintenance, school safety during a pandemic, school ventilation systems

Betsy DeVos’s Education Freedom Plan for Covid-19: My Way or the Highway!

July 11, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

Take the highway! For four years, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has worked to destroy democratic public schools and the teaching profession while touting her Education Freedom plan, vouchers. But Americans should be asking what she really means by educational freedom after this past week. The freedom to determine what safe schooling means in your community […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, covid-19, education choice, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, President Trump, School Reopening, students, teachers

24 WRONG Reasons to Reopen Schools

July 7, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

The reasons for returning to school might sound good, but those reasons always bump up against the enemy, the coronavirus. Here are concerns that deserve attention, but they are the wrong reasons for schools to reopen. 1. President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos say SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL! Neither the President or […]

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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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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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"Good teaching has always been – even if unacknowledged – about applying new knowledge and challenging beliefs." @NancyEBailey1 @janresseger https://bit.ly/42Hw3td

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Remember the days when Arne Duncan insisted that having different ‘goal posts’ in every state was preventing us from improving public schools in America? Good times.

I wish I could say we’ve evolved since 2015, when Duncan stepped down. https://teacherinastrangeland.blog/2023/03/25/the-absolute-folly-of-standardization/

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Reminder: join us tonight at 7PM EST for #TalkoutofSchool @wbai with Rep. @JamaalBowmanNY discussing his new bill #MoreTeachingLessTesting; & 2 PEP members @tomcsheppard & @OuterBoroHero explaining why they voted no on the Mayor's education budget.

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