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The Longtime Plan for Screens to Replace Teachers: School Choice the Prenda Way

September 26, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

No matter your viewpoint on the coronavirus, for those who care about democratic public schools, our fears merge when it comes to worrying that technology will replace teachers and end those schools. Covid-19 is the perfect storm, and Prenda micro-schools are the prototype. These are schools that focus on commercial tech programs without real teachers. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Disruptive" Technology, charter schools, children and technology, covid-19, cyberschools, Online Learning, Prenda micro-schools, Public School Privatization, School Choice, Schools without Teachers, teachers

Vocabulary Used to Sell Technology to Teachers and Parents

December 1, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 20 Comments

It’s the use of only technology in education without qualified teachers that is the concern. It’s “tech without teachers” and without public school buildings, a sense of community, student socializing, and the misuse of data collected on children that keep parents and teachers up at night! The problem is that there is a concerted effort […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Disruptive" Technology, selling nonstop technology, teachers, Technology, technology marketing, technology vocabulary, vocabulary

“Disruption” Using Technology is Dangerous to Child Development and Public Education

November 13, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

Public schools continuously change to keep up with progress. Technology has much to offer. But the idea that instruction should be disrupted using technology is putting students and the country at risk. It destroys the public school curriculum that has managed to educate the masses for decades. Disruption is a troubling word when referring to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Disruptive" Technology, Defending the Early Years "Online Toolkit", disruption, Disruption using technology, early childhood education, public schools, teachers, Teachers vs. Technology, Technology

Elephant in the Room: It’s the Tech Takeover, NOT Common Core

January 18, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 16 Comments

We are in danger of losing public schools and it’s all about “disruption” and technology. The federal government is leading the way. Common Core State Standards were unproven and costly. I hate what Common Core did to children. Common Core and other school problems are still worth discussing. But technology and its overwhelming impact on […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Disruptive" Technology, Betsy DeVos, Common Core, Rethinking Public Schools, Tech Revolution, Tech Transformation of Public Education, Technology in Schools

Public Schools and Freedom: A New Threat as We Celebrate This 4th of July

July 4, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

I wish to dedicate this post to the woman I’m calling America’s librarian, Joan Kramer, who lost her battle with cancer last week. Joan fought for children, their libraries, and their schools, bolstering us with her strong but kind ways. I felt it was important to acknowledge her this 4th of July. A hero and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Disruptive" Technology, 4th of July, A democracy, Computers or Teachers?, CZI takeover of public schools, education and freedom, public schools, Technology, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the meaning of public education

The Mom Factor vs. Helicoptering

May 7, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Happy Mother’s Day! I hope all moms and families have a beautiful Sunday. Isn’t it interesting that Mother’s Day and Teacher Appreciation Week are close together? Perhaps it is because teaching and nurturing children (no matter how old a child is) are similar. When mothers (and dads) unite with teachers, there is no end to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Disruptive" Technology, Common Core, dyslexia, Evaluations, Helicoptering, high-stakes testing, Mild Learning Disabilities, Mothers, No Recess, Rat-Infested Schools, School Data, Severe Cognitive Disabilities, Student Online Privacy Rights

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The State of School Recess in America is Still Terrible! - - Is this lack contributing to the deteriorating mental health of students? https://go.shr.lc/3yeH1Jz via @shareaholic

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The Real Reading Debate and How We Fail to Teach Reading https://radicalscholarship.com/2020/02/19/the-real-reading-debate-and-how-we-fail-to-teach-reading/ via @plthomasEdD

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I'm so happy Nancy Bailey reposted her 2014 piece that still rings true: Setting Children Up to Hate Reading

"Why are young children being made to learn at a faster rate?...
Great question!
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@DASchwartzy @cherkies @NancyEBailey1 Schools need libraries with Certified Teacher Librarians.

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