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Discounting Learning Disabilities in B.C., AU, U.S., and England–and Finding HOPE

March 8, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Are they ending special education programs where you live? It turns out this is happening around the world. Parents with students who have learning disabilities can’t find assistance, or, like in England, they are mistreated in institutions. But don’t give up. There is hope, as I explain at the end of this post. Parents in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abbottsford, Arne Duncan, Australia, British Columbia, California, Competency-Based Instruction, England, institutions, Lawsuit, learning disabilities, New York City, New York Regents

The Soulless Practice of Using Students with Disabilities to Fire Teachers—Remembering a Better World

February 8, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

How’s this for compassion in the new public school accountability world? By now most people have read about the Ethan Rediske situation in Orlando. The 11 year old, blind, with brain damage and cerebral palsy, as he lay dying in a Hospice, was required to take an alternative version of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: developmental disabilities, FCAT, Florida, high-stakes testing, institutions, Orlando, public schools, Sunland

Common Core State Standards and Students with Autism—The Shoe Doesn’t Fit

January 23, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 24 Comments

Let me say up front, that I don’t think Common Core State Standards are shoes that fit any child, but the standards are especially insidious for students with disabilities, who were promised something different with the original Public Law 94-142. Recently I read an article in Teaching Exceptional Children from a year ago. It was entitled, “Meeting […]

Filed Under: Common Core Tagged With: atypical children, Autism, Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Council for Exceptional Children, institutions, parents, Teaching Exceptional Children

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Chicago teachers continues plea to Chicago Public Schools for safe school reopening plan - Chicago Sun-Times - https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2021/1/18/22237242/ctu-teachers-union-cps-chicago-public-schools-reopening-plan-coronavirus-covid-19#new_tab

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Fully fund traditional public schools!!! https://twitter.com/chrchristensen/status/1351176316784160769

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“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.” -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #MLKDay

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18 Jan

Teachers posting screenshots of children using online apps & edtech products —posting student photos, full names, grade/age, teacher and school, and sometimes login info (password!) on social media—please STOP.
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18 Jan

In order to restore students' voices we need to end the focus on high stakes standardized testing. See Nancy Bailey's six reasons why that's a good idea here:
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