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Where’s the Biden Administration on School Problems Facing Students, Teachers, and Parents?

May 16, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

The pandemic showed us that public schools are critical. Understandably, Covid-19 has been front and center. But the Biden administration glosses over or is silent on critical school issues. Sometimes these topics are front and center not in a good way in State legislatures or ignored altogether. Frustrated parents will seek alternatives, and there’s a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, class size, Common Core, curriculum, early childhood education, Health Care, K-12 Alignment to the Workforce, public schools, reading, school boards and partnerships, School Buildings, school safety, Social Justice, special education, standardized testing, support staff, teachers, Technology, the arts, vouchers

A Reply to an 8th Grader: 11 Reasons Related to Schools Why Citizens Argue

October 9, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

During the Vice Presidential debate, an 8th grader asked why American citizens can’t get along. She said all she sees is arguing between Democrats and Republicans, citizens fighting citizens and two candidates trying to tear each other down. She asked if they can’t get along, how do we [children] get along? I taught eighth-graders and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 8th Grader, Bullying, covid-19, disabilities, Health Care, President Trump, Racism, School Privatization, Sen. Harris, V.P. Debate, V.P. Pence

Black Students in Poor Schools: It’s Still NCLB!

June 10, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

In The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, Jonathan Kozol refers to a comment by President George W. Bush about Bush’s goals for education. President Bush said, I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations. Later, in 2004, he said, It’s working. It’s making a difference. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Health Care, Lead poisoning, NCLB, public schools, race, reading and phonics, the oppression of poor black children in school

Public Schools With a President Bernie Sanders

May 19, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

What would education be like with a President Bernie Sanders? Would he stand by public schools and public school career teachers? I think between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders would be better to fight against the troubling school reforms that have plagued public schools for years. Most of what can be gathered about […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Bill and Melinda Gates, Career Teachers, Collective Bargaining, Common Core, Every Student Succeeds Act, Health Care, high-stakes testing, Hillary Clinton, Jane Sanders, public schools, Student Loans, Wrap-Around Services

Donald Trump’s Education Mirage

May 14, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Donald Trump’s education agenda is puzzling. Where does he stand and what does he know about public schools, teachers and students? Pam Vogel for Media Matters in America, Eric Robelen in The Atlantic, and Valerie Strauss from the Washington Post questioned Trump’s education agenda. And charter school and No Child Left Behind promoter Nina Rees […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bullying, charter schools, Choice, Common Core, Donald Trump, Health Care, Local Control, Multicultural Education, public schools, School Nurses, special education, U.S. Department of Education, vouchers

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

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Pictures are paramount for children learning to read. Lately, they're getting a bad rap. Here's an outline of what children learn through picture books they like.

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28 Sep

Virginians!

This is precisely type of teacher diploma mill program, i.e., iTeach, that our Gov. Youngkin and his leadership team at the Virginia Department of Education is trying to push through without proper vetting.

Here's some vetting for you:
https://twitter.com/benjaminjriley/status/1707378957857792003

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drmaryhoward Dr. Mary Howard @drmaryhoward ·
28 Sep

"When we find a thing we can measure, in this case, how quickly a child can decode words, we make it THE measure of being literate. It is a classic, arrogant mistake that was on full display in that first grade classroom." Leigh Patel

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29 Sep

One of HISD's super's so-called innovations? Are these high expectations of students?

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Pictures are paramount for children learning to read. Lately, they're getting a bad rap. Here's an outline of what children learn through picture books they like.

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