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Corporate School Reform and “Disruption” Also Hurts Children in Suburban Schools

January 5, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

The following is written by a teacher who asked that I post her essay but remain anonymous. Isn’t it sad that we live in a time where teachers feel they will get in trouble if they write about their concerns and question the establishment? Corporate school reform breaks schools apart. While children in urban and […]

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The Summit for Corporate Reformers vs. Teachers Who CLIMB Summits

November 19, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

A summit is defined as the highest peak of a mountain. It’s also a meeting of high-level officials. In education, corporate politicians and reformers promote themselves as child experts. Yet they are far removed from the classrooms where teachers climb mountains every day to help students learn. Chicago teachers recently fought for paraprofessionals to have […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: business and schools, Corporate Agenda for Public Schools, corporate school reform, National Summit on Education Reform, public education, public schools, Red for Ed, school reform, Teachers in Arkansas, Teachers in Chicago, Teachers in Indiana

The Failure of Betsy DeVos and 30 Years of Corporate Influence on Public Schools!

November 6, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

Frustrated by public schools? Look no further than the corporate education reformers and what they have done to public education. Education Secretary DeVos and her corporate billionaire friends have been chipping away at the fabric of democratic public schools for over thirty years! The problems we see in public schools today are largely a result […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Corporate Reform, corporate school reform, Detroit schools, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, NAEP, substandard charter schools

Classroom in a Bathroom? Overcrowded Building Problems Betsy DeVos Doesn’t Think About

September 26, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Please tell Betsy DeVos that when Americans fail to invest in public school buildings, it affects how students learn. Betsy DeVos has never worked in poor building conditions. She doesn’t understand how difficult it is for students and teachers. On September 20, DeVos stated in her Education Freedom speech to a parochial school audience, that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism, corporate school reform, disabilities, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, overcrowded schools, school building safety, School Buildings, school facilities, student with autism is placed in bathroom

Investigating the Corporate Fingerprints in the Media Attacks on Teachers and Colleges of Education

June 13, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

A media rollout of criticism towards teachers and their COEs mostly over reading, has fueled debate about what teachers know about teaching. Are these reports what they seem, or is something else going on? None of these commentaries look at the effects of Common Core State Standards. Look closely and one finds corporate school reform fingerprints. If reformers […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, corporate school reform, Education Schools, National Council of Teacher Quality, National Reading Panel, Negative reporting, reading, Stand for Children, Teach for America, teachers

Diane Ravitch’s Education “Wisdom and Wit” is Critical at this Time

May 5, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

We will someday view this era as one in which the nation turned its back on its public schools, its children, and its educators. We will wonder why so many journalists and policymakers rejected the nation’s obligation to support public education as a social responsibility, and accepted the unrealistic, unsustainable promises of entrepreneurs and billionaires. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Book Review, civil rights, corporate school reform, Diane Ravitch, Garn Press, School Privatization, Teacher Appreciation Week, teachers, The Wisdom and Wit of Diane Ravitch

35 Ways They Dumb Down America: Still, There’s Hope!

May 3, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum And they charged all the people A dollar and a half to see ’em Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘Till it’s gone They paved paradise And they put up a parking lot ~Joni Mitchell, Big […]

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An ADHD Medical Device Again Raises Questions about Classroom Rigor and the Lack of Recess

April 23, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) says that 5 percent of American children have ADHD. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) puts the number at more than double the APA’s number. The CDC says that 11 percent of American children, ages 4 to 17, have the attention disorder. ~The A.D.D. Resource Center, Oct […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), corporate school reform, eTNS System, No Recess, recess, sendentary students in elementary school, standardized testing

Leaving Childhood Out in the Rain!

January 31, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Why do corporate CEOs, foundations, and policymakers want kindergartners to learn more advanced material at a faster rate? Why is this important to them? If children are made to grow up quickly, what happens to childhood? Why are they against play and art for children in public schools? Why do they push children to read […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: assessment, corporate school reform, Demanding Advanced Work in Kindergarten, kindergarten, kindergarten expectation, Kindergarten rigor, losing childhood, Social Emotional Learning, testing, The Chalkbeat

Quit Saying Special Ed. Costs Too Much! 8 Cost-Cutting Signs to Watch Out For

October 12, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-142. The law guaranteed every child a free appropriate public education. This positively impacted millions of children across the country. The law was later reauthorized and renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Many politicians never wanted to fund special education. From the start, there was no […]

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Is EdTrust Behind High-Stakes Testing During This Pandemic? - Is acting Ed Secretary Ian Rosenblum
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Is EdTrust Behind High-Stakes Testing During This Pandemic?
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@hueraTN @NancyEBailey1 YES! Martin Luther King:
"We are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished.”

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