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It’s Wrong to Force Four and Five Year Olds to Read! Focus on Speaking and Listening Instead!

December 7, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

With No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, some adults have been led to believe that four- and five-year-old children should read by the end of kindergarten. Preschoolers are pushed to be ready for formal reading instruction by the time they enter kindergarten. This is a dangerous idea rooted […]

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11 Problems Facing Students as They Return to School

August 24, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

If you support our students, the next generation, and a democratic public education system that we all own, it’s tough to watch the changes corporate reformers have caused in schools. They’re not the ideas that most parents and teachers support, so we wonder why they’re implemented. Most of the problems that exist in public schools […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: art music drama and dance in school, better safety measures in school, crumbling school buildings, kindergarten expectations, Lead in school drinking water, School Librarians, school libraries, shooting drills in schools, strict rules in school, Zero Tolerance

Demand that Kindergarten Be a Happy Time and Place: A “Garden for Children!”

August 26, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Welcome to kindergarten! This is the year children are introduced to school. It should be a happy time and place so children will move forward enjoying school. A few years back we learned through a University of Virginia study that kindergarten was the new first grade. Five-year-old children face unjustifiable, draconian reforms that push them […]

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live4literacyRosemarie Jensen, M.Ed.@live4literacy·
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@buchananshelle3 @NancyEBailey1 many children do not read by 8. in fact, many countries don’t start reading instruction until 8. we hsve decided children are failures by k.

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UNBELIEVABLE that TN is resorting to third-grade retention! Do lawmakers bother to read ANY education research on this subject? https://nancyebailey.com/2017/10/09/force-flunk-destroying-a-childs-love-of-reading-and-their-life/

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BadassTeachersABadass Teachers Asso@BadassTeachersA·
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The privatizer types never stop wanting to get their hands on government funding. They pour tons a money into lobbying & marketing. Then they increase their return on investment by shortchanging their students.
https://nancyebailey.com/2021/03/07/tutors-replacing-teachers-a-failed-privatization-plot-returns/ @NancyEBailey1 #TBATs

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Explains the first step toward changing education into a gig economy, thus ssving iieologues all thhse pesky salary and benefits costs. #oklaed https://nancyebailey.com/2021/03/07/tutors-replacing-teachers-a-failed-privatization-plot-returns/

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Look who's behind the push for "high-dosage, accelerated" tutoring. But students first need qualified teachers and their expertise & understanding. https://nancyebailey.com/2021/03/07/tutors-replacing-teachers-a-failed-privatization-plot-returns/

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