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10 Years Later: The Continuing Intentional Unraveling of America’s Public Schools

August 27, 2023 By Nancy Bailey 46 Comments

School reform continues to privatize and destroy public schools. August marks ten years since I began blogging. Within that time I have written two books and co-authored a third with Diane Ravitch. I’m proud of all this writing but Losing America’s Schools: The Fight to Reclaim Public Education is the book title that especially stands […]

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Acceleration: The Meaning Behind the Buzzword

April 15, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

Acceleration is the new pandemic buzzword brought to you by pro-privatization school reformers. Students may have missed some in-person schooling, even though most learned remotely or in person. Still, the frenzy surrounding learning loss is mounting. The pandemic has given rise to a new way to reframe the old learning gap talk, with new terminology, […]

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The Haunted Third Grade Classrooms Children Fear: Enter and… Stay Forever!

October 29, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Children fear third grade retention. It doesn’t motivate them to learn. They don’t read earlier because of it. Retention is not effective. It’s scary and could haunt a child forever. Third grade retention laws are real for children in nineteen states. NEA Reports noted in 2017 that 16 states and Washington D.C. make it mandatory that […]

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Oregon’s Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Rob Saxton Calls Himself an SOB: I Concur

October 15, 2013 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

While many of us focused on New York’s Ed. Commissioner John King this past weekend, I also watched two YouTube videos that were deeply disturbing from the other side of the country. They both involve Oregon’s Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Rob Saxton. Saxton’s background consists of being a teacher (I can’t find what he […]

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Nancy Bailey looks at how the inheritors of the education hit piece, A Nation at Risk, continue to depend on forcing toddlers to grow faster, somehow. #inappropriate

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First, children are pushed to read before they're ready, and then they fail third grade because they need more time to learn to be better readers. How does this create better readers? Children will hate reading.

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Research is clear: Third-grade retention is an unnecessary, ineffective practice that demoralizes children. @SecCardona should speak to this terrible practice.

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Research is clear: Third-grade retention is an unnecessary, ineffective practice that demoralizes children. @SecCardona should speak to this terrible practice. https://www.wsfa.com/2023/09/14/12k-third-graders-risk-being-held-back-under-alabama-literacy-act-superintendent-warns/?fbclid=IwAR1CHkRIZN1CmXlVuA_uTS6zU8IQOGO0_FkQPuAHvW_tKX2Ose25DLeuRdQ

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