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Smaller Class Sizes and REAL Personalized Learning are Needed for Safer Schools

May 20, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Once again families and a community are in mourning—this time in Santa Fe, Texas. Policymakers must address gun control, mental health services, and school safety. There’s another solution for schools. One that few education reformers entertain. Smaller class sizes and providing students with real personalized learning. Not sitting kids in front of screens for all […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class size matters, Class Sizes, emotional disabilities, emotional/behavioral disabilities, school safety, school shootings, students with emotional problems, Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities

The Sad Impact of Corporate School Reform on Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities

January 26, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

We have a lot of troubled kids. As of 2016, approximately 1 in 5 youth aged 13–18 (21.4%) experiences a severe mental disorder at some point during their life. For children aged 8–15, the estimate is 13%. HERE. Schools should be on the front line to assist children and adolescents with mental health difficulties. But […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Art, Betsy DeVos, Children, Data collecting, eliminating special education services, emotional disabilities, high-stakes testing, inclusion, mental health, music, no excuses, One-size-fits-all, play, recess, Rewards, School Choice, Social Emotional Learning, Teach for America, teachers, teens

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

Misguided Education Reform

December 31, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

A nice thing that happened to me this past year was the publishing, back in July, of my book, Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students, by R & L Books (Rowman & Littlefield). It covers many of the same topics you will find on my blog. I discuss special education which might be […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: charter school buildings, Common Core, discipline, early childhood education, emotional disabilities, gifted, IDEA, learning disabilities, libraries, loss of the arts, Misguided Education Reform, PL 94-142, poor/unsafe school facilities, re-authorizations, reading, Reading First, special education, testing, Zero Tolerance

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Is EdTrust Behind High-Stakes Testing During This Pandemic? - Is acting Ed Secretary Ian Rosenblum
signaling Race to the Top 2 or will the genuine public education people in the department exert a positive influence? https://go.shr.lc/2ZNPjGh via @shareaholic

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Is EdTrust Behind High-Stakes Testing During This Pandemic?
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@hueraTN @NancyEBailey1 YES! Martin Luther King:
"We are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished.”

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