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The Trouble with “Disruption” and its Effect on Children

October 2, 2015 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Disruption has become a popular buzzword in regard to schooling. Education reformers like to say disruption is a good thing—like shaking up a kaleidoscope to get a pretty picture. Never mind that those beautiful little pebbles in the kaleidoscope are real children. Nor is it with certainty that once you shake things up the picture […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Clayton Christensen, Common Core, high-stakes testing, Individualization, Jeb Bush, mental health, Public Schools and Disruption, School Closings, School Funding Cuts, Smaller Classes, special education, Teacher firings

Destroying Special Education through Common Core Testing and Funding Cuts

August 25, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

How are things going with these special education cuts after time has gone by? I’m looking at what’s happening currently. Let me know of any program cuts in your school district and I will write about them. This was originally posted August 25, 2015. ___________________________________________ Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chicago, College and Career, Common Core, Florida, Funding Cuts, Hawaii, high-stakes testing, Individualization, Kansas, Minneapolis, New Hampshire, PARCC, Smarter Balanced Assessment, special education, Special Education Funding Cuts, states, Tennessee, Vermont

Bill Gates’s Double Standards and High Tech High K-12 Schools

April 1, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 20 Comments

Here is a good example of what I would call double standards relating to traditional public schools and charter schools–more specifically the High Tech High K-12 Schools. High Tech High Charter Schools, computer/project driven schools, dot the landscape in California. They started out as one charter in 2000, run by San Diego business leaders and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class size, Common Core, High Tech High K-12 Schools, high-stakes testing, Individualization, public schools, Recess Technology

Retention’s False Promise: Instead—Better Alternatives

February 13, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Jeb Bush, in regard to class retention of children in school, one of his signature education reforms, said last week in response to criticism, “God forbid if little Johnny is stressed out. How horrible it is for their self-esteem if they’re held back.” Mr. Bush, who is probably running for president, said this at a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alternative Strategies to Retention, class size, IEPs, Individualization, Looping, Multiage Grouping, Resource Rooms, retention

Repercussions of Losing Part-Time Resource Classes for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities

January 5, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

It is interesting that so many titles and posts I write involving school reform have to do with loss. The resource class for students with learning disabilities and sometimes behavioral problems is one more loss when it comes to students and their public schools. Resource classes were designed to help students in elementary, middle and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Behavioral Disabilities, IDEA 1997, IDEA 2004, inclusion, Individualization, learning disabilities, Mild Disabilities, Moderate Disabilities, Regular Classroom, Resource Class, Teach for America

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