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Education Unity? Save Democratic Public Schools!

November 10, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris! How refreshing to hear a President speak of uniting the country and saving America’s democratic institutions. One of the largest institutions is the public school system, run by local school boards, supported by the states, with oversight and administration by the federal government. President Biden […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood, charter schools, data collection and privacy, Defending the Early Years, early childhood education, National Education Policy Center, Pay for Success, reading, School Buildings, school staff, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Preparation, Technology

Play v. Reading: How Flawed Thinking About Preschool Has Become Accepted Practice

September 12, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. ~Fred Rogers One education topic that every politician running for office mentions is preschool for all. What do they mean? What do they think preschool should be […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alliance for Childhood, Defending the Early Years, kindergarten, Prereading skills, preschool, preschool reading demands, Waterford UPSTART

What Preschool Isn’t: Waterford UPSTART and Any Other Online Program!

April 16, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

No one can deny the importance of early learning. We have years of research by developmental psychologists and early childhood education researchers built on findings to help us understand how preschoolers learn. We need to fund adequate preschools so students get a good introduction to the joy of formal learning. Researchers have known for some […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Defending the Early Years, Funding Preschools, preschool, preschool learning, Waterford UPSTART

How NCLB is Still Destroying Reading for Children 

February 12, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 19 Comments

NCLB was a bi-partisan bill signed into law in 2002 during the Bush administration’s push for school reform. We now recognize how punitive the bill was, its troubling use of one-size-fits-all standardized testing to demonize and close public schools, the punitive AYP and “highly qualified” teacher credentialing changes, the unrealistic predictions that all children would […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Defending the Early Years, developmental disabilities, Early Childhood, Kindergarten is the New First Grade, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), phonics, Picture Books, Reading in Kindergarten, Setting Children Up to Hate Reading, standardized testing, Teaching reading, The Alliance for Childhood, Valerie Strauss The Answer Sheet

Common Core Kindergarten Reading—A Disservice to Children!

March 8, 2015 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

An article in U.S. News and World Report written by Robert Pondiscio, a journalist turned fifth grade teacher for a while (how he became a teacher is unclear), is entitled, “No Time to Lose” and “Early Reading Isn’t a Threat to Kindergarten, Nor is Common Core.” Pondiscio is now a senior advisor to a charter […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Defending the Early Years, kindergarten, reading, The Alliance for Childhood

Are Today’s Children Developmentally Different from Children in the Past?

January 13, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 19 Comments

Does research show us that young children have evolved to where they can learn faster? Are they smarter than they used to be? No! There is no research to indicate that a child’s brain has evolved over the years to where they need a learning environment that is more difficult from the past. What has […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Defending the Early Years, early childhood education, Gesell Institute

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Many have become weary & wary of ‘SoR’ term. A good time to revisit this piece @tultican details why the term has become problematic. 🙏🏼 to @NfiniteJustice & @roblevine82 for sharing.

https://tultican.com/2022/12/28/the-science-of-profits-and-propaganda/

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votegloriaj Rep. Gloria Johnson @votegloriaj ·
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“If Republicans continue to have their way, we will eventually do no regulation. And we will be in violation of the Second Amendment as it is written. Somehow that never occurs to politicians.” https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/thoughts-and-prayers-are-not-enough/article_55aa7aca-cd1c-11ed-b22d-d37cf4ffce94.html

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jasonablin Jason Ablin @jasonablin ·
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Why do I feel like I'm reading an article that should have been written in 1938.

Education Secretary Calls for End to Corporal Punishment https://www.edweek.org/leadership/education-secretary-calls-for-end-to-corporal-punishment/2023/03

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gwenblumberg Gwen Blumberg @gwenblumberg ·
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Honoring identity, ditching logs, levels as *teacher* tools, independent reading, student CHOICE, and honoring multimodal texts… Yes to all! ⁦@KQED⁩ https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61287/beyond-reading-logs-and-lexile-levels-supporting-students-multifaceted-reading-lives

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nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
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Science of Reading camp never discusses the importance of picture books. How much time do children get to explore them? How often are they read to for enjoyment? This is worrisome. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/26/the-science-of-reading-and-the-rejection-of-picture-books/

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