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Organizations with the Audacity to Blame Teachers for Poor NAEP Reading Scores!

November 13, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 26 Comments

The latest “criticize teachers for not teaching the ‘science’ of reading” can be found in “Schools Should Follow the ‘Science of Reading,’ say National Education Groups” in the Gates funded Education Week.  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds most of the organizations in this report that criticize public schools and teachers for low NAEP […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Achieve, Alliance for Excellent Education, chiefs for change, Collaborative for Student success, Corporations, learning heroes, literacy how, military child education coalition, national association of elementary school principals, National Council of Teacher Quality, National urban league, reading, reading science, special education, teachers, thomas b. fordham institue

Liking Those We Don’t Like: The Dissonance Involved with Supporting Public Schools

January 9, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Most teachers see the good in everyone. They go into teaching because they care about children, and they take what happens in life personally. They are usually defiantly protective of their turf. Many years ago, I started out disliking the late Benjamin O. Canada, who was superintendent of Atlanta and one of the first school leaders […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Bernie Sanders, Bill & Melinda Gates, Corporations, Corporations and public schools, Golden Globes, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Oprah, President Obama, School Privatization, school reform, Technology and Schools, Tom Hanks, XQ Super Schools

President Donald Trump: What NOW for Public Schools?

November 11, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

President Trump certainly won’t be remembered as someone who “Made America Great Again” by churning the past failed public school policies of both parties. What can we expect from President Donald Trump when it comes to our public schools? Is it all doom and gloom? Can we find any silver lining? Is there a smidgeon […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Community Schools, Corporations, Diane Ravitch, For-Profit Colleges, President-elect Donald Trump, public schools, School Privatization, school reform, Social Justice, Stephen Krashen, vouchers

Girl Scout Badges Made Just for Teachers!

April 30, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

A new corporate idea being revved up for public schools involves teachers earning badges…because there is nothing that says Free Market more than teachers competing with Girl Scouts. Here are some badges you can earn, teachers: Money Counts. Teachers, earn this badge when you spend 50% of your paycheck on materials that the school cannot […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Badges, Common Core, Corporations, Girl Scouts, students, teachers

Hey! Who’s that With the Baby Grand on their Back?

December 5, 2013 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Memphis and the surrounding suburbs have been through quite a lot of “churning” with the school merger of the city schools with the county schools. Most everyone spots the corporate fingerprints. They’re all over the place. Chain charters, Teach for America, The New Teacher Project, Common Core, etc. are, with the help of Stand for […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: chaos, churning, Corporations, equipment, inventory, Memphis, musical instruments, privatization, public schools, Shelby County, theft, transformation

Who’s “Dreaming Big”—Students or IBM?

October 26, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Here’s the question.Is it helping disadvantaged teens to plug them into corporately-designed programs, starting when they are in ninth grade, steering them through six years of training where they will wind up with an Associate’s Degree related to a corporation? Should this be the purpose of all schooling in America? Is it right for teenagers? […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Technology Tagged With: Career Technical Education, Common Core, Corporations, IBM, P-Tech, Vocational Education

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live4literacyRosemarie Jensen, M.Ed.@live4literacy·
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@buchananshelle3 @NancyEBailey1 many children do not read by 8. in fact, many countries don’t start reading instruction until 8. we hsve decided children are failures by k.

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UNBELIEVABLE that TN is resorting to third-grade retention! Do lawmakers bother to read ANY education research on this subject? https://nancyebailey.com/2017/10/09/force-flunk-destroying-a-childs-love-of-reading-and-their-life/

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The privatizer types never stop wanting to get their hands on government funding. They pour tons a money into lobbying & marketing. Then they increase their return on investment by shortchanging their students.
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Explains the first step toward changing education into a gig economy, thus ssving iieologues all thhse pesky salary and benefits costs. #oklaed https://nancyebailey.com/2021/03/07/tutors-replacing-teachers-a-failed-privatization-plot-returns/

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Look who's behind the push for "high-dosage, accelerated" tutoring. But students first need qualified teachers and their expertise & understanding. https://nancyebailey.com/2021/03/07/tutors-replacing-teachers-a-failed-privatization-plot-returns/

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