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Challenge to the Common Core King and Queen: Get Involved Really!

October 8, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 16 Comments

Bill and Melinda Gates say “Working on reforming the U.S. education system is the hardest job they’ve ever tackled — even more difficult and complex than trying to find a cure for malaria.” Their hardest job? Are they kidding? Sitting in an ivory palace pulling school reform ideas off the top of your head is […]

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IEPs for All—Or Something Else?

September 9, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Some of us imagined a public school system that would drop special education labels and look at all children individually and collectively for their strengths and what they need to learn. We thought of it as Individual Educational Plans (IEPs) for everyone. You will likely hear about “IEPs for All” in the future, if you […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Alligned, Asynchronous Learning, Blended Learning, Brick-and-Mortar Schools, Computers, Differentiated Learning, Flipped Classrooms, IEP, Individual Educational Plans, Individualize, Online Learning, Personalized Learning, Synchronous Learning, teachers, Testing Online, UDL, Universal Design for Learning, Virtual Schools

Arne Duncan—This is What’s “Pretty Scary” to Parents, Teachers and Students

April 2, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Posted on November 18, 2013 and updated for April 2, 2014 by Nancy Bailey Last November I wrote about why parents worried about Arne Duncan, who stands in support of Common Core State Standards. It was after he said, in reference to the standards,  “It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming […]

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@susanoha @NancyEBailey1 "Sell What We Do": The Manufactured Crisis to Hide the Story Being Sold https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/01/30/sell-what-we-do-the-manufactured-crisis-to-hide-the-story-being-sold/

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Nancy Bailey: Reading Disabilities: Focus on Public Schools NOT School Choice!

“It’s unfair to say public school teachers fail to teach reading, while charter schools show substandard results. This creates a double standard.” @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

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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

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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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