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It’s Not A Wonderful Life for Millions of School Children

December 18, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

“…I know right now, and the answer’s no. No Doggone it! You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money! Well, it doesn’t, Mr. Potter! In the, in the whole vast configuration of things, I’d say you were nothing but a scurvy […]

Filed Under: Common Core Tagged With: AFT, American Library Association, budget cuts, Common Core, Coporatists, Council for Exceptional Children, George Bailey, high-stakes testing, National Council of Teachers of English, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, NEA, poverty, PTA, school reform, Scrooge

Less High-Stakes Testing—More Focus on Mental Health and Personalized Schooling

October 24, 2013 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

This past week saw yet again two horrible instances of violence—once again at schools. Two popular teachers are gone, along with a troubled student. Another student will possibly be tried as an adult and prosecuted. Again we wonder whether public schools do much to help disturbed students. In both these situations, unless something new pops […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: class size, counseling, high-stakes testing, intervention, public schools, special education, student mental health, the arts

Special Olympics—Endangered?

August 26, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Recently, Special Olympics celebrated the anniversary of their 1976 event. This is a picture of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and a young competitor and winner from back then posted on the Special Olympics site on August 22. As a young college student, almost ready to graduate with a degree in special education, I volunteered in the […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: high-stakes testing, inclusion, special education, Special Olympics

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