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My Blogging Anniversary: How Has School Reform Changed in Five Years?

August 21, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

I recently passed the five-year anniversary of when I started writing my blog. What has changed? In this post, I analyze some of the issues I’ve written about over the years. Then, I thank you for your support. Change or lack of change in education can seem dark and foreboding, but there’s a great deal […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 5th year anniversary, charter schoos, class size, Common Core, data, early childhood education, reading, recess, retention, Social Emotional Learning, special education, standardized testing, Technology, the arts, vouchers

K-12 Mega-Merger: What Strange World Is This? Teachers Want Lowered Class Sizes!

July 16, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Teaching children can be a beautiful thing. But there are so many needs right now due to years of inadequate funding and mismanagement. One solution to many problems is lowering class sizes. But read this article about a K-12 Mega-Merger and it’s easy to see that lowering class size is only on the minds of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alpine Achievement, data, Illuminate, IO Education, K-12 Mega-Mergers, Key Data Systems, Personalized Learning, Privacy Concerns, School City, School Data, Social Emotional Learning, Technology

The Troubling Trend to Collect Behavioral Data on ALL Children

September 3, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

As school starts, many parents are being bombarded with information about behavioral data collection on their children. A lot of this is tied to the trendy push for social-emotional learning (SEL), and the attempt to connect behavior with a child’s ability to read and do well in school. But it’s troubling to see schools monitoring […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Behavioral Data, Behavioral Disabilities, Behavioral Problems in Children, data, Data Collection, emotional disabilities, Michigan Integrated Behavior and Learning Support Initiative, Privacy, Problematic Behavior in Children, Social Emotional Learning, Student Online Privacy Rights, Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities

Data Frenzy!

September 29, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

A parent was bemoaning the fact that her young student is made to carry his notebook with his standardized test scores around the school in the chance an administrator, or test Nazi, might need to take a look at the scores. Are test scores this important that administrators must have access to them every minute […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: data, Data Rooms, frenzy, war

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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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