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Acceleration: The Meaning Behind the Buzzword

April 15, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

Acceleration is the new pandemic buzzword brought to you by pro-privatization school reformers. Students may have missed some in-person schooling, even though most learned remotely or in person. Still, the frenzy surrounding learning loss is mounting. The pandemic has given rise to a new way to reframe the old learning gap talk, with new terminology, […]

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The Technology Cheating Problem Is Still a Problem

August 22, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

While many were appalled at the celebrity college entrance scandal, there’s another scandal that gets minimal attention. Students cheat with technology! Cheating has always been a problem in school but with technology it runs rampant. In the classroom, teachers curtail cheating by supervising students in person. They learn about students and become familiar with their […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cheating, Cheating with Technology, College, Connections Academy, contract cheating, High School, K12, Summit Online Learning, Technology, turitin, virtual learning

“Personalized Learning” is NOT Working for High School Students

September 29, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 15 Comments

Backed by major philanthropists and investors such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, the ed-tech industry has aggressively pushed the idea of “personalized learning.” But on the ground, the concept remains nebulous, and research evidence remains thin. ~Benjamin Herold. Education Week, September 21, 2017 Will students graduate high school with what they need to go […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Gates, High School, Mark Zuckerberg, Personalized Learning, RAND Report, redesign of high schools, Springpoint Partners in School design, Teacher Shortage, teachers, Technology

XQ Super Schools—Business Working to End Public High Schools

September 5, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 39 Comments

Laurene Powell Jobs and her XQ school bus are coming to us via television on major networks on September 8th.  She wants to remake high schools. Powell Jobs would have you think that high schools haven’t changed for a hundred years. That’s not true. The American high school can certainly always improve, but the institution […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: High School, Lauren Powell Jobs, Public School Privatization, public schools, Tech take over of public high schools, Technology in Schools, XQ Super Schools

Calling Nurturing Men to the Teaching Profession

June 18, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Happy Father’s Day! I am proud to know many nurturing fathers who are also teachers and who fight for public education. I have also known men who are not fathers, but who are marvelous teachers, who view their students like their own children. Men are needed to teach in this country. There’s supposedly a teacher […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: elementary school, High School, Male teachers, Middle School, Recruiting male teachers, Teacher Shortage, the teaching profession, working conditions for teachers

Why Not Ditch Advanced Placement (AP) Classes?

March 5, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 43 Comments

If you have a high school student with college on their mind, chances are you are saving to pay for the myriad of standardized Advanced Placement (AP) tests they will need to take at the end of their classes. Each test, one for each subject, is $93. Students in U.S. Department of Defense Dependents Schools […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Advanced Placement (AP), College Success, David Coleman, High School, testing, The College Board

Could Changing College Admissions Be the End of High-Stakes Testing?

January 20, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

Could it be that once the first domino falls the rest will follow? Leaders at eighty leading colleges and universities, including the Ivy League, are attempting to revise the application process to look at students and their personal interests! They want to focus less on the canned metrics. Are college and university leaders across the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACT, AP, College Admissions, Community Service, High School, high-stakes testing, Improving College Admissions, mental health, SAT

School Reformers Who Blame Public Schools for Eliminating Special Education

October 12, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

I see Washington Post Columnist Jay Matthews as someone who usually cheerleads for privatization of public schools. I take issue with his Sunday Washington Post article “How can a special education student fail finals yet pass? Sadly, it’s easy.” Oh help! Is this not a case of the right hand not being able to find […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Chicago Public Schools, High School, Jay Matthews, Resource Classes, Self-Contined Classrooms, special education, Special Education Services, testing, U.S. Dept. of Education

What President Obama Got Right—Warning—It’s Wild and There Was No Drill!

April 22, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

OK. You don’t like Race to the Top or the corporate education agenda that all presidents subscribe to. Me neither. Maybe you don’t like a lot of President Obama’s policies and can’t wait for a new guy…or gal! I get it. But how can you not appreciate the way President Obama has been practicing his […]

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@ChristinaNosek @sarahlouwou Does a program serve as a tool of teacher autonomy or replace teacher autonomy?

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Dear @nytimes @DanaGoldstein

This is a *market* response to misguided state-level legislation banning reading program; this is *not* proof media misinformation about reading is true

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/us/reading-teaching-curriculum-phonics.html

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SecCardonaSecretary Miguel Cardona@SecCardona·
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Thanks to @POTUS & the FTC, we are working to strengthen privacy protections for our children and students. This work ensures that companies cannot exploit our children to make money.

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Vote4HammondMike Hammond@Vote4Hammond·
20 May

The education “report” released yesterday is a brochure produced by a non-VA company who’s entire goal is to remove money and students from public education.

We need to invest more into our public schools now, not less, to provide a quality education for every student in VA.

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20 May

Breaking: A massive data breach has exposed four years’ worth of records of almost 500,000 Chicago Public Schools students and nearly 60,000 employees, district officials told principals today. w/ @bylaurenfitz https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2022/5/20/23132983/cps-public-schools-data-breach-students-employees-records-battelle-kids

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