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Why Are Schools Still Using Response to Intervention?

September 18, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 70 Comments

Schools have only been in session for a few weeks. Already parents are troubled by reading problems their children are bringing home from school. It’s painful to hear of an otherwise happy child who succumbs to anxiety and distress over school due to reading. Reading should be a joyful experience. But for many children—reading is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: dyslexia, intervention, learning disabilities, reading, Reading Programs, reading remediation, Resource Rooms, Response to Intervention, RTI, special education

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

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The Science of Scarcity and Sleep that Education Reformers (Want to) Ignore https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/03/20/the-science-of-scarcity-and-sleep-that-education-reformers-want-to-ignore/ via @plthomasEdD

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Things to ponder about the current discussions around SOR. From ChatGPT @ChatwithGPT
https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/19/what-does-chatgpt-say-about-the-science-of-reading-it-may-surprise-you/?fbclid=IwAR0Fhkczq46nJq8n5ob1q2xF5Q9aFc9ya04TEgYCaVTyEElEQg_UbWfoROY

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I asked ChatGPT "Is the 'science of reading' settled science that determines how reading should be taught?" Here's the response. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/19/what-does-chatgpt-say-about-the-science-of-reading-it-may-surprise-you/

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"The privatization movement has been strategically designed...by billionaires and their fellow investors for specific purposes: to lower their own tax burden, and ideologically to dismantle public education." @NPEaction @NancyEBailey1 @TheAndySpears
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"Let’s honor our students by providing them free quality democratic public schools that reject no one." @NancyEBailey1 https://bit.ly/3FE0KFA

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