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Bellwether: The Sheep Leading Teachers, Children, and Parents Off the Cliff!

April 2, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

Long ago, it was common practice for shepherds to hang a bell around the neck of one sheep in their flock, thereby designating it the lead sheep. This animal was called the bellwether. ~Mirriam Webster Dictionary Bellwether Education Partners is one of several nonprofits working with school districts around the country to determine how to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bellwether Educational Partners, Corporate Reform, ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act, public schools, special education, Teacher Pensions, Texas

6 Concerns: Are “Community Schools” Paving the Way for School Choice and Digital Instruction?

February 22, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Here is how the Coalition of Community Schools defines their concept of community schools. A community school is both a place and a set of partnerships between the school and other community resources. Its integrated focus on academics, health and social services, youth and community development and community engagement leads to improved student learning, stronger […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Brick-and-Mortar Schools, Chamber of Commerce, Community chools, Data Collection, Denver Public Schools, Empower Schools, Every Student Succeeds Act, Luminary Learning Network, Mobile Libraries, Pay for Success, Relay Graduate School of Education, School Choice, Social Impact Bonds, Teach for America, Teacher Involvement, teachers, Technology, The Gates Family Foundation

Public Schools With a President Bernie Sanders

May 19, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

What would education be like with a President Bernie Sanders? Would he stand by public schools and public school career teachers? I think between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders would be better to fight against the troubling school reforms that have plagued public schools for years. Most of what can be gathered about […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Bill and Melinda Gates, Career Teachers, Collective Bargaining, Common Core, Every Student Succeeds Act, Health Care, high-stakes testing, Hillary Clinton, Jane Sanders, public schools, Student Loans, Wrap-Around Services

Drastic Public School Cuts in Memphis—The New America

April 7, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

Shelby County Schools in Memphis are cutting programs like special education and teachers and staff and other important positions and resources that help a good school function. They need to make $50 million or maybe even $86 million in cuts to public schools. The biggest hit to a single department under academics is in special […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Academic Enrichment Programs, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Business Operations, Classroom Supplies, Education Secretary John King, Every Student Succeeds Act, Inservice, iZone Schools, Memphis, Middle School Athletics, New York, Reading Teachers, Reduced Benefits, School Budget Cuts, School Counselors, School Maintenance, Shelby County Schools, special education, Textbooks, Transportation

Recess v. Online Social-Emotional Learning

March 13, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Education Week is reporting about technology to be used to teach social-emotional skills. It’s called Social-Emotional Learning–SEL for short. I find it ironic that at the same time, Florida senators just said no to recess. Are they telling us that computers should be used to teach students how to relate to one another? Is this […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Boston Consulting Group, Ed. Tech, Every Student Succeeds Act, Online Social-Emotional Learning, recess, Technology, World Economic Forum

Elves, Marshmallow Farms, and the K-12 Education Political Disconnect

December 24, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Merry Christmas! Today I am writing about illusion and how K-12 education, despite some cursory remarks, is still ignored by Presidential candidates. If you haven’t already noticed, while there are many topics discussed at Presidential debates, there is never, and I mean NEVER, any mention of the vast concerns about the privatization of America’s public […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AFT, Common Core, Democrats, Education Debate, Education Issues, Every Student Succeeds Act, NEA, Presidential Candidates, public schools, Republicans

ESSA and the Dismantling of Programs for Students with Disabilities and/or Gifted Students

December 4, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

Sign the petition to stop the reauthorization of ESEA. HERE! __________________________________ What are the problems with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and students with disabilities and/or gifted students? First, A Little History Politicians have never wanted to pay for special education. Everything you see today in the way of policy and rhetoric concerning the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alternative Testing, Common Core, disabilities, dyslexia, ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act, Gifted Education, High School Diploma, learning disabilities

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