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Alternative Routes vs. Growth Mindset: Shouldn’t School Be Like a Map?

June 9, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Maybe you are planning a trip over the summer. Are you going to tackle the Grand Canyon? Perhaps you’re going overseas to Italy, or some exotic place that has always been on your bucket list. Maybe you will stay home and enjoy relaxing in the backyard. Why don’t we tell children that school is like […]

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nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
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The focus should be on lifting traditional public schools & reading programs for many students who attend those schools rather than on unproven private and charter schools. Fix IDEA by increasing options. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/01/29/reading-disabilities-focus-on-public-schools-not-school-choice/

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arizona_sos Save Our Schools AZ @arizona_sos ·
28 Jan

Special interests call ESA vouchers “scholarships” because private schools select their students. It’s not “school choice,” it’s the school’s choice 😡#AZVoucherWatch #VouchersHurt #FundOurSchools

http://bit.ly/SellingSchoolChoice

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danwuori Dan Wuori @danwuori ·
29 Jan

On-demand standardized testing has no place in kindergarten. There are far more appropriate and meaningful methods of assessing young children. https://twitter.com/reimagschool/status/1619665302450753536

David Locke @ReimagSchool

My wife's Kindergarten students felt very stressed and were crying when they had to take a standardized test. When she reported this to administrators their solution was "test them until they cry, and then stop." #testthemtiltheycry #resisttesting

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drbradjohnson 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @drbradjohnson ·
28 Jan

Besides the many issues with standardized testing. Most students have no idea what they missed on the tests and teachers don't either. And by time they get results students have moved on to next grade. Making it useless to evaluate teachers & districts too.

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ichrislehman Christopher Lehman 🤪 @ichrislehman ·
27 Jan

One of many absurd theories coming out of states like VA is that reading must be taught from a packaged curriculum followed with fidelity.

I have never ever ever worked with a curriculum that didn’t need to be slightly or completely revised to meet the needs of actual students.

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