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14 Scary Monsters Children Face On Halloween and Beyond, Affecting Their Schooling

October 31, 2021 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Teachers and public schools might be blamed when children have trouble learning. But many variables affect how children do in school, and most are out of a teacher’s control. Support public education and teachers to help families and children make schooling a worthwhile experience. Schools should be an anchor in the community for children and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Abuse, Cancer, Children, disabilities, Divorce, Failure, Gun Violence, healthcare, homelessness, hunger, LBGTQ, loneliness, loss, mental health, Racism, schools

Michigan to Retain Children with Lead Poisoning

October 7, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Michigan has a lead problem with its children in Flint, and a governor who failed badly his own accountability test. Many wonder why he is still governor. Some wonder why he isn’t in jail. But yesterday he signed off on a bill to fail third graders. How many children in Flint will wind up failing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Failure, Governor Snyder, Michigan, Michigan Legislators, retention, third grade

Arizona Fails its Children!

July 13, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

Arizona is holding back 1,400 third graders. I guess they are following Florida’s misguided lead. The Arizona Department of Education said the third-graders did not pass the math and English portions of the Arizona’s Measurement of Educational Readiness to Inform Teaching — AzMERIT — test. (KTAR News) Expect More Arizona seems O.K. with the failures. Here […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arizona, Dropping Out, Expect More Arizona, Failure, Mandatory Retention, Reasons Retention is Bad for Children, retention, Social Promotion, Strategies to Avoid Retention, third grade, Wrightslaw

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