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Gifted and IDEA: Charter Schools Won’t Solve the Gifted Debate

September 1, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

Even though gifted is listed as a special education category, Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) never adequately addressed it. Intellectually advanced students are complex, not always easy to understand. They need and deserve school support. Much debate surrounds gifted education. But charter schools will not be a sufficient answer to concerns. Some gifted students are […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 2e, charter schools, disabilities and giftedness, gifted, gifted and talented, High Tech High, Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the arts, Twice Exceptional Students

Class Size and Its Impact on Inclusion

March 3, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

Parents want teachers to address their child’s individual needs. Teachers want this too. They want to be able to work with and understand the students they teach. They especially want to help the students in their classes who have exceptional differences. This is difficult to do when class sizes are too large. If elementary teachers […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 3rd Grade Retention, Florida, gifted and talented, IDEA, inclusion, lowering class size, NEPC Study, public schools, Raising Class Sizes, school reform, special education, Tennessee STAR Study

Parents Working With School Districts To Make Public Schools Work

October 16, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 15 Comments

For our team and the members of our group, gifted education is not about speeding through school or having Ivy League kids. It is about our children receiving an education that causes them to work hard, overcome obstacles, and fail and recover. It is about finding friends who understand them and are OK with their […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Avondale, Democratic Public Schools, gifted and talented, Gifted Education, Metro-Detroit, Oakland County, Parent Advocates, Parent Groups, parents, Superintendent Dr. James Schwarz

A Pompous, Demoralizing Letter for Teachers, Students, and Parents

August 21, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

One of the old education reformers is Chester E. Finn, Jr. of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. He referred to himself as aging–not me. But he is old, and my point with this is that the push to destroy public schools, as we know them, started a long time ago. Finn just wrote a letter […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism, Chester E. Finn, education reform, gifted and talented, Jr. Priscella Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Online Schools, special education, Twice Exceptional Students

Quality Teachers for Poor Students: Another Missed Opportunity to Address Real Change

July 11, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

This past week President Obama sat down to a lovely salmon dinner with a few teachers with inspirational stories, to discuss his new program to get excellent teachers for children in poor school districts. The problem of poor children in school is critical. Educational Week reported last fall that almost half the students in America […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Class Sizes, Common Core, community, Education Schools, Flunking, gifted and talented, Health Care, high-stakes testing, poverty, Preschools, Quality Teachers, School Buildings, schools, the arts, Wrap-Around Services

The Vanderbilt Study about Gifted Students

January 7, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

My post, Shunning gifted Students in America—Isn’t it Time to Pay Attention? generated a lot of  conversation. Many are worried about how to serve these students in public school. So when I ran across this research today out of Vanderbilt University, I jumped for joy! Dr. David Lubinski and his co-authors, Harrison J. Kell and […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: David Lubinski, gifted and talented, Vanderbilt study

What Really Scares Parents IS Arne Duncan!

November 18, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Yesterday we learned what Arne Duncan said—in support of Common Core State Standards. At first I didn’t think I could write about it because it made me sick. But then I decided I had to write about it. From The Washington Post: Duncan said, “It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Common Core, disabilities, gifted and talented

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