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Kindergarten Pandemic Learning Fears Should Not Be Tied to Screen Time and Rigid Drilling

October 28, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Kindergartners and their parents and teachers struggle with the pandemic. When the focus is on problems with children learning online, whether a child will succeed, it might help to revisit what’s developmentally appropriate for a kindergartner. Many reports are raising concern about learning loss in kindergarten. “What Kindergarten Struggles Could Mean for a Child’s Later […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Early Childhood, early childhood development, kindergarten, Online Learning, Technology

It’s Wrong to Force Four and Five Year Olds to Read! Focus on Speaking and Listening Instead!

December 7, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

With No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, some adults have been led to believe that four- and five-year-old children should read by the end of kindergarten. Preschoolers are pushed to be ready for formal reading instruction by the time they enter kindergarten. This is a dangerous idea rooted […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Early Childhood, kindergarten expectations, kindergarten reading demands, preschool expectations, preschool reading demands, reading, Reading Instruction, Speech and listening skills, Unproven reading expectations for early childhood

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

Pediatricians, Common Core and the Meaning of “Pushing” Early Childhood Literacy

August 30, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Be careful using the word “push” when it comes to reading. There is always the fear that Common Core State Standards are behind it. A  recent Memphis Commercial Appeal had an Op Ed entitled “Pediatricians Push Early Childhood Literacy.” They were referring to the American Association of Pediatricians (AAP) recommendation that pediatricians should remind parents […]

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What President Obama Got Right—Warning—It’s Wild and There Was No Drill!

April 22, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

OK. You don’t like Race to the Top or the corporate education agenda that all presidents subscribe to. Me neither. Maybe you don’t like a lot of President Obama’s policies and can’t wait for a new guy…or gal! I get it. But how can you not appreciate the way President Obama has been practicing his […]

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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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23 Jun

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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