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Public Schools and School Libraries: The “Hub” of Democracy During a Crisis, Is Facing Its Own Crisis

October 2, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

A public school is the hub of the American community, and school libraries provide students the knowledge to better understand their world. But public schools and school libraries face a crisis at this time in history, and it’s important to question what has happened with CARES Act funding. Americans in crisis recognize that public schools […]

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How is School Choice “Freedom” When Students Lose School Libraries and Librarians?

April 27, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. ~Laura Bush What choice and charter advocates don’t advertise is that most charter schools don’t invest in school libraries with qualified […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: charter schools, Charter schools without librarians, charter schools without libraries, Empowerment, Florida, Librarians, Loss of School Librarians, Loss of School Libraries, School Choice, School Freedom, school libraries, vouchers

Bill & Melinda Gates Don’t Discuss Their Takeover of America’s Public Schools

March 8, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 15 Comments

Bill and Melinda Gates’s 2019 letter “We Didn’t See This Coming,” is filled with their concerns and optimism about everything from commodes to climate change. Always eager to discuss their global initiatives to help the poor, and a variety of other endeavors, they say little about the aggressive ways they are remaking public education to their […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, books, charter schools, Common Core, Data Collection, Librarians, libraries, Privatization of Public Education, Public School Takeover, reading, reading gains, school libraries, Teacher Effectiveness

Social-Emotional Learning and Teachers Students Love? Teachers in Los Angeles!

January 22, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Social-emotional learning (SEL) in schools makes many parents and teachers nervous. We worry there’s an ulterior motive to collect behavioral data on how children think and act, and that the ultimate goal is to privatize public schools and track students. Talk about transforming our public schools away from cognitive learning to SEL is everywhere! Those […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aspen Institute, behavioral data collection, class size, counselors, L.A. Teachers Strike, Librarians, lowering class size, nurses, Social Emotional Learning, students, teachers, tracking

Nineteen For 2019: Choose This, NOT That, to Save Public Education in the New Year!

December 31, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

1.  Kindergarten NOT The New First Grade Kindergartners should be treated like the four and five-year-old students that they are and not pushed to be first graders. The activities and instruction for this age group are well established. Real educators should take charge and ensure that there’s much free play and age appropriate activities. 2.  […]

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Maker Movements Should NOT Endanger School Libraries, Librarians, and Reading

October 9, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

To call yourself a librarian, you need to have that training and to be certified. If you replace a certified librarian with someone who’s just an expert in technology, you’re losing half of the role that school libraries are supposed to be serving. You still need someone who is a champion of reading. ~Leslie Preddy, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Digital Conversion, Digital Learning, Fab Labs, Hackspaces, Librarians, Makerspaces, The Importance of certified School librarians, the importance of libraries, the role of the school librarian

Can Students Have Teachers, Tech, and Librarians Too?

April 27, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Is it possible in this fast-paced world, to see a future with technology and professionally credentialed librarians and teachers working alongside one another? Can we be one big happy family? My last post about the loss of librarians and libraries brought a comment from a Follett representative. Follett is a for-profit company that has been […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alliance for Excellent Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Follett, future ready schools, Librarians, libraries, teachers, Technology

Poverty & Reading: The Sad and Troubling Loss of School Libraries and Real Librarians

April 21, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 62 Comments

My last post listed reasons why many children don’t learn to read. Poverty was behind many of the items. Poor students attend poor schools where they miss out on the arts, a whole curriculum, even qualified, well prepared teachers. Students might end up in “no excuses” charter schools with only digital learning. But, next to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Reading Tagged With: America School libraries, charter schools, high-stakes testing, Librarians, Personalized Learning, poverty, school libraries, teachers, the loss of librarians, the loss of school libraries, U.K. librarians, U.K. reading, U.K. school Libraries

Worries about Tech and the Chan/Zuckerberg $30 Million Support of “Reach Every Reader”

March 8, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Reading is essential for learning, yet students across the U.S. are completing elementary school with inadequate reading abilities. So begins the announcement in The Harvard Gazette telling us about the new $30 million grant Chan/Zuckerberg will hand over to Harvard’s School of Education and MIT’s Integrative Learning Initiative (MITili). Learning to read, all of us […]

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Teacher Appreciation: It’s More than a Free Burrito

May 7, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

The official Teacher Appreciation Week starts tomorrow. If you celebrated it last week—celebrate again. In fact, celebrate every day! Teacher appreciation can’t be captured in one week. Here is my 2015 list and my 2016 list of why we should appreciate teachers. If you think of something I left out let me know. Chipotle gave […]

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

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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.
#Privacy #FERPA #COPPA

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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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