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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

Social-Emotional Learning: The Dark Side

March 19, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Why would parents and teachers, tired of high-stakes testing in their public schools, wish to sign onto more assessment that tests, tracks, and profiles their child’s behavior online? Good teachers have always built social skills into their classes. Helping children behave and work with each other is second nature to teaching. One can find nice […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism, Common Core State Stanadards, gifted, Online Social-Emotional Learning, Pay for Success, Psychological Profiling, Social Emotional Learning, Social Impact Bonds, Social-Emotional Standards, special education, testing

14 Devious Claims to Destroy Special Education

April 21, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Around the country, state education chiefs, local school superintendents, and school boards are eliminating special education services. There’s an effort to get rid of special education. Sometimes this is done through language that sounds appealing. Who doesn’t want a quality education for all children? Why not declassify students? Do schools really need part-time resource classes […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Caps on special education, consolidating special education, declassifying special education students, gifted, quality schooling, special education

Isn’t It Time to Pay Attention to Our Gifted Students?

November 2, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

By Gina Kennedy According to the National Association for Gifted Children, there are three to five million gifted students in our public schools today, however rarely will you find two school districts in the United States that service these students in a similar way. Best practices and strategies to teach the gifted are likely based […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: gifted, Gifted Identification, High Achievers, high-stakes testing, Lack of Gifted Services

Differentiation and Common Core—A Strange Combination for Gifted Students

September 14, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

In looking at different cities and their plans for gifted students, there is one thing most of them now have in common. They advocate differentiation and Common Core. The real buzz word is differentiation! Differentiation sounds soothing, like it will give every parent what they always dream of, personalized attention for their child. It advertises […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Differentiation, disabilities, gifted

Commiserating on How Gifted Students are Ignored by Educators, Policymakers and Those Who Should Care

September 12, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

A post I did almost a year ago about Common Core and gifted students has been receiving renewed activity lately. HERE. HERE is another. I wondered what was up. Why are gifted parents digging into the archives? I realized school for many has been in session for a while now and for parents, including parents […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, gifted, Gifted Education, Myths, Policy, special education, The National Association for Gifted Children

Special Ed. Labels—Why We Still Need Them in the Era of Common Core

April 22, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Work hard at living the idea that differentness is just fine—not bad. Your child will learn most from your example. Help him to think of problems as things that can be solved if people work at them together. ~Nicholas Hobbs from The Futures of Children (p.288) Years ago a poster circulated that said “Labels are […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism, Common Core, gifted, Labels, learning disabilities, special education

Common Core and Ability Grouping—Ignoring Critical Questions

January 5, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Common Core does not honestly tackle a problem that should be front and center in our public schools. How do we address ability grouping? Should students with learning disabilities be educated separately or in the regular class? Do autistic children learn faster mainstreamed or with specialized help in a self-contained classroom or separate school? Are […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: ability grouping, Autism, class size, Common Core, detracking, gifted, learning disabilities, mainstreamed, self-contained classroom, separate school, social and cultural needs, tracking

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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live4literacyRosemarie Jensen, M.Ed.@live4literacy·
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@buchananshelle3 @NancyEBailey1 many children do not read by 8. in fact, many countries don’t start reading instruction until 8. we hsve decided children are failures by k.

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UNBELIEVABLE that TN is resorting to third-grade retention! Do lawmakers bother to read ANY education research on this subject? https://nancyebailey.com/2017/10/09/force-flunk-destroying-a-childs-love-of-reading-and-their-life/

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The privatizer types never stop wanting to get their hands on government funding. They pour tons a money into lobbying & marketing. Then they increase their return on investment by shortchanging their students.
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Explains the first step toward changing education into a gig economy, thus ssving iieologues all thhse pesky salary and benefits costs. #oklaed https://nancyebailey.com/2021/03/07/tutors-replacing-teachers-a-failed-privatization-plot-returns/

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Look who's behind the push for "high-dosage, accelerated" tutoring. But students first need qualified teachers and their expertise & understanding. https://nancyebailey.com/2021/03/07/tutors-replacing-teachers-a-failed-privatization-plot-returns/

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