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Liking Those We Don’t Like: The Dissonance Involved with Supporting Public Schools

January 9, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Most teachers see the good in everyone. They go into teaching because they care about children, and they take what happens in life personally. They are usually defiantly protective of their turf. Many years ago, I started out disliking the late Benjamin O. Canada, who was superintendent of Atlanta and one of the first school leaders […]

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Hillary Clinton and Charter School Myths

July 19, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Last night the report from the AFT convention was that Hillary Clinton once again spoke about how charter schools provided traditional public schools with innovation. This is a recurring theme with her—one that has already drawn boos from teachers in the NEA. As one teacher put it last night, is she tone deaf? Charter schools […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AFT, charter schools, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, innovation, Myths, NEA, Reality, vouchers

Are We Being Duped? Why Not End Tax-Supported Charter Schools?

July 11, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

I just returned from Washington DC where I marched for Save Our Schools (SOS), and where I was honored to speak on a panel with two individuals whom I respect as experts about special education needs. I mingled with many great educators and parent activists who I consider friends. We stood side-by-side to support great […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AFT, American Federation of Teachers, Best Practices, charter schools, Democrats, ELL, Hillary Clinton, Public Charter Schools, Religion, Save Our Schools, Segregation Special Education, Teachers' Unions, Transparency

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

Education Mirages and Presidential Politics—Hillary Clinton

May 12, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

Presidential politics and education—it’s like crawling through the desert. You see the same old landscape, and then, out in the distance you see real teacher support and quality schooling! And you hear “I will make public schools great again!” We are bombarded with statements that sound supportive of public schools and teachers, parents, and students, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism, Bill Gates, charter schools, Disruptive Education, Eli Broad, Equal Pay, Hillary Clinton, preschool, public schools, Teach for America, Teacher Pay, Technology, The Waltons

Hillary Clinton, Zip Codes, and School Equality

April 17, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

The point often made during debates by Sec. Hillary Clinton is that children should not get a poor education based on their zip code. Most of us would agree about poverty and its harmful effects on children in school. But the zip code message was co-opted a long time ago by those who want to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Counseling Services, Detroit, discipline, Hillary Clinton, libraries, Online Instruction, Over-Testing, Poor Schools, poverty, private schools, Punishing Schools, recess, Rich Schools, Rundown School Facilities, School Nurses, Strictness, teachers, the arts, Wealthy Schools, Whole Curriculum, Zip Codes

Storm Clouds Over Hillary Clinton’s Education Agenda

January 7, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

Hillary Clinton gets positive points for speaking out about autism and mental health. She mentions student transition from high school to young adulthood where there exists a worrisome gap. There is more she proposes here. Mrs. Clinton also brought up the sensitive topic of seclusion and restraints involving students with serious disabilities. We need that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism, charter schools, Common Core, Education Agenda, Hillary Clinton, mental health, Teach for America

Some Good Education News from 2015

December 31, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Writing about education is interesting, but it can also be depressing. Sometimes it feels like being a hamster on one of those wheels. So as we close out 2015, here is a list of some good news that happened in 2015. If you have something to add, let me know! Happy New Year! These are […]

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Teacher Age Discrimination During a So-Called Teacher Shortage

August 16, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 188 Comments

Jeb Bush is 62. Hillary Clinton is 67. Donald Trump is 69 and Bernie Sanders is 73. If these individuals were teaching in a public school, and not famous politicians, what would you bet that they’d still be working? How many older teachers do you know who are still teaching? While there is much gnashing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Age Discrimination, Ageism, AP, Bernie Sanders, Bill Gates, College Board, Common Core, Donald Trump, Eli Broad, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, NEA, public schools, teachers

Two Sides of Hillary Clinton: The American Federation of Teachers’ Big Blunder

July 13, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Where was the debate? Did we miss it? Why was the AFT rapid endorsement of Hillary Clinton such a rash mistake? Hillary Clinton has two sides when it comes to education, and the AFT should have taken more time to haggle with her—nudge her into showing her good side. But they didn’t do due diligence […]

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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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