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The Trouble with Social-Emotional Learning: Why Be Concerned? Here’s Why!

May 2, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

. . . we must hold social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they’re conducting on our children for profit.  It’s time to strengthen privacy protections, ban targeted advertising to children, and demand tech companies stop collecting personal data on our children. ~President Biden, State of the Union Address, March 1, 2022 Social-emotional learning […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: data, data collection on children, online data, Social Emotional Learning

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 […]

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drmaryhoward Dr. Mary Howard @drmaryhoward ·
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Testing &the Love of Reading

“Skills" divorced from content gets us reading comp equivalent of DIBELS, the crazy pants "reading" assessmt that tries to "test" the skill of decoding by having Stds decode words that aren't words--rdg w/o actually reading.”

https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2023/03/testing-and-love-of-reading.html

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repbowman Congressman Jamaal Bowman @repbowman ·
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Our schools have become test based factories where our kids are being forced onto assembly lines.

My More Teaching Less Testing Act would revolutionize our public schools system and ensure our teachers and students can focus on authentic learning, not test based curriculum.

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lvstodance Kathy Beery, M.Ed. @lvstodance ·
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@bluevirginia @RTDSchapiro FYI, Tennessee schools rank 28th in the Nation. Virginia ranks 4th. That's it, that's the tweet.

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plthomasedd Paul Thomas @plthomasedd ·
21 Mar

The Science of Scarcity and Sleep that Education Reformers (Want to) Ignore https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/03/20/the-science-of-scarcity-and-sleep-that-education-reformers-want-to-ignore/ via @plthomasEdD

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doctorsam7 Dr. Sam Bommarito @doctorsam7 ·
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Things to ponder about the current discussions around SOR. From ChatGPT @ChatwithGPT
https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/19/what-does-chatgpt-say-about-the-science-of-reading-it-may-surprise-you/?fbclid=IwAR0Fhkczq46nJq8n5ob1q2xF5Q9aFc9ya04TEgYCaVTyEElEQg_UbWfoROY

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