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Social-Emotional Learning and Teachers Students Love? Teachers in Los Angeles!

January 22, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Social-emotional learning (SEL) in schools makes many parents and teachers nervous. We worry there’s an ulterior motive to collect behavioral data on how children think and act, and that the ultimate goal is to privatize public schools and track students. Talk about transforming our public schools away from cognitive learning to SEL is everywhere! Those […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aspen Institute, behavioral data collection, class size, counselors, L.A. Teachers Strike, Librarians, lowering class size, nurses, Social Emotional Learning, students, teachers, tracking

America’s Students are Brilliant! The Cynics Can No Longer Claim Otherwise!

February 25, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

Beyond the sadness over the terrible event at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, still unimaginable, there was something that stood out last week. America’s kids are smart! Really smart! They’re smarter than the school reformers who have said ugly things against them for years! President Trump referred to public schools in his Inaugural Address as an education […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AP, counselors, Florida Legislature, Gun Control, Gun Laws, Gun Violence, Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School, NRA, public schools, SAT, school reform, special education, Teenagers

“Dropout Factories”: The Disparaging & Hypocritical Reference to America’s Public Schools and Teachers

April 25, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

How many times do you hear America’s public high schools called “Dropout Factories?” How do those words make you feel? The general public hears these words and unfairly accepts that our public high schools and the teachers working in them are failing. Dropout Factories were highlighted in the awful anti-public school propaganda film Waiting for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: At-Risk Students, counselors, Dropout Factories, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Grade Retention, Johns Hopkins University, Robert Balfanz, School Nurses, School Psychologists, School-based after-school programs, special education

Priorities In a School System Where Nearly Half of Students Live in Poverty

January 28, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

By Laurie Taylor-Mitchell The annual costs for new computers and technology (STAT*) is now $57 million, and over $250 million overall is expected to be spent by 2018. Administrative salaries and costs are also increasing within the school system: the salary budget for the Chief Academic Officer and two other positions is nearly $500,000. In […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Backpack Programs, Baltimore County Schools, counselors, Homeless Students, homelessness, hunger, poverty, Pupil Personnel Workers, social workers, Students & Teachers Accessing Tomorrow (STAT), Technology

Huge Class Sizes and the Increase in Student Mental Health Problems—Connect the Dots!

December 23, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

The New York Times has an article having to do with large class sizes. It’s all about the push to put more kids in classrooms and schools with fewer teachers and specialists. This is happening around the country in every school. It is happening without any thought to the recent tragic events in our public […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: counselors, de-personalizing, emotionally disturbed students, large class sizes, mental health, public schools, special education, specialists, teachers

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