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Public Schools and School Libraries: The “Hub” of Democracy During a Crisis, Is Facing Its Own Crisis

October 2, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

A public school is the hub of the American community, and school libraries provide students the knowledge to better understand their world. But public schools and school libraries face a crisis at this time in history, and it’s important to question what has happened with CARES Act funding. Americans in crisis recognize that public schools […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: anytime anyplace learning, CARES Act, community libraries, counselors, Digital Learning, Librarians, museums as schools, public school hubs, public schools, public schools during a crisis, school staff, teachers, Technology

With One Reply, Betsy DeVos Told Us Her Real Plan for America’s Public Schools

March 30, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 23 Comments

In one of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s most troubling responses of both days of testimony, she responded to an inquiry by Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) about this nation’s crumbling school infrastructure. It comes about 1:09:45 into the tape (below) from the PBS News Hour. It’s important to remember that she has always said that public […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Crumbling Facilities, Crumbling Public school buildings, Digital Learning, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Personalized Learning, Rebuild America's Schools Act, Senate Testimony of Betsy DeVos 2019

Nineteen For 2019: Choose This, NOT That, to Save Public Education in the New Year!

December 31, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

1.  Kindergarten NOT The New First Grade Kindergartners should be treated like the four and five-year-old students that they are and not pushed to be first graders. The activities and instruction for this age group are well established. Real educators should take charge and ensure that there’s much free play and age appropriate activities. 2.  […]

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Personalized (Online) Learning Fails at Classroom Dynamics and Socialization

November 24, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah Think of all that we could sha-are Let’s get together everyday Every way and everywhere And though we haven’t got a lot We could be sharin’ all we’ve got Together ~Haley Mills, From Walt Disney’s The Parent Trap The public school classroom is a sacred community. How students socialize in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: auditory feedback. socialization, Class dynamics, Class dynamics vs. Online Instruction, Communication, Digital Learning, discipline, Diversity, Online Learning, Personalized Learning, public schools, school, special education, student expression, student feedback

Maker Movements Should NOT Endanger School Libraries, Librarians, and Reading

October 9, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

To call yourself a librarian, you need to have that training and to be certified. If you replace a certified librarian with someone who’s just an expert in technology, you’re losing half of the role that school libraries are supposed to be serving. You still need someone who is a champion of reading. ~Leslie Preddy, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Digital Conversion, Digital Learning, Fab Labs, Hackspaces, Librarians, Makerspaces, The Importance of certified School librarians, the importance of libraries, the role of the school librarian

School Transformation Double Talk Threatens Students and Teachers

June 12, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

It’s easy to be confused by what is said about schools today. We are told one thing, when quite the opposite is taking place. We are told that with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), education will involve local decision making. Simultaneously, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is giving $44 million to affect state […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: customized learning, Digital Learning, Knowledgeworks, north dakota, Online Charter Schools, Online Learning, Personalized Learning, Proficiency-Based Learning, School Transformation, teacher creativity, teachers, Ted Dintersmith, venture philanthrophy

Put Out to Pasture: Past Education Secretaries and Their Anti-Public School Connections Today

April 12, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

It’s interesting how previous education secretaries go on to jobs that are anti-public schooling, mostly promoting digital learning. Arne Duncan, who was President Obama’s education secretary, just resurfaced to write an Op Ed in the Chicago Tribune. He argues that education reform after his oversight is doing well. Of course many disagree. We know that […]

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IEPs for All Students? Hold On!

February 7, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

A discussion about IEPs for all students seems to be trending. In an interview with The Nation during the presidential campaign, Jane Sanders talked about IEPs and public schools. It was likely the most we heard about public education at that time. Here are her words. It’s interesting, because we’ve made progress with IEPs [Individualized […]

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Teachers or Technology? 12 Tech Takeover Concerns

October 18, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Teachers in Boston are all aglow over personalized learning—teaching students how to learn on digital devices. But there’s something strange about learning how to help computers do a teacher’s job—like maybe tomorrow teachers will show up for work and their key will no longer open the classroom door. LearnLaunch Institute’s MassNet program is one of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Digital Learning, Learning Assembly, LearnLaunch, LearnNet MassNet, Teachers vs. Technology, Teaching Career, teaching profession, Technology

The Dallas Dance Investigation: What’s Your School District Up To?

September 24, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Dallas Dance is in trouble. But don’t forget his agenda. The attempted transformation of a school system to personalized learning is troubling. How many school districts have administrators or school board members pushing personalized learning at all cost? Anyone hearing buzz words and phrases like “no walls and no boundaries?” I have posted before about […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Baltimore County Public Schools, CBE, Digital Learning, Former Superintendent Dallas Dance, Personalized Learning, Pushing Technology in Schools

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@susanoha @NancyEBailey1 "Sell What We Do": The Manufactured Crisis to Hide the Story Being Sold https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/01/30/sell-what-we-do-the-manufactured-crisis-to-hide-the-story-being-sold/

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Nancy Bailey: Reading Disabilities: Focus on Public Schools NOT School Choice!

“It’s unfair to say public school teachers fail to teach reading, while charter schools show substandard results. This creates a double standard.” @NancyEBailey1

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The focus should be on lifting traditional public schools & reading programs for many students who attend those schools rather than on unproven private and charter schools. Fix IDEA by increasing options. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/01/29/reading-disabilities-focus-on-public-schools-not-school-choice/

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Special interests call ESA vouchers “scholarships” because private schools select their students. It’s not “school choice,” it’s the school’s choice 😡#AZVoucherWatch #VouchersHurt #FundOurSchools

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On-demand standardized testing has no place in kindergarten. There are far more appropriate and meaningful methods of assessing young children. https://twitter.com/reimagschool/status/1619665302450753536

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My wife's Kindergarten students felt very stressed and were crying when they had to take a standardized test. When she reported this to administrators their solution was "test them until they cry, and then stop." #testthemtiltheycry #resisttesting

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