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The Racism Behind Firing Librarians and Closing School Libraries

May 26, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. ~Frederick Douglass If a school has no school library or a flimsy excuse for a library, students are denied access to books and reading material. They miss opportunities to learn information and become proud of who they are. Look for racism behind the decision. When […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: book banning, Librarians, phonics, Racism, test scores, the hub of a school

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: anytime anyplace learning, CARES Act, community libraries, counselors, Digital Learning, Librarians, museums as schools, public school hubs, public schools, public schools during a crisis, school staff, teachers, Technology

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

April 27, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 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.  […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Armed Teachers, Betsy DeVos, Digital Learning, Diversity, Gun Control, kindergarten, Librarians, Lower Class sizes, Maker spaces, mental health, New Leaders, Online assessment, Partners, Personalized Learning, portfolio schools, principals, sameness, School Boards, School CEOs, school facilities, School leadership, school libraries, school mental health services, school safety, School Systems, Separation of Church and State, special education, Superintendents, Teach for America, teacher assessment, teachers, Whole Curriculum

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

October 9, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 14 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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: $30 Million Grant to Harvard and MITili, Brick-and-Mortar Schools, class size, Dr. Priscilla Chan, early reading, free reading, Harvard School of Education, Librarians, Mark Zuckerberg, MITili, phonics, phonics vs. whole language, public school teachers, public schools, reading, recess, school libraries, School Privatization, special education, Technology, the arts, whole language

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The concept of the IEP was stolen by Gates and Zuckerberg for "personalized" learning! Definitely concerning and parents should not be confused! #SPEDChat @disabilityscoop https://twitter.com/Philly852/status/960490008854630400

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Pictures are paramount for children learning to read. Lately, they're getting a bad rap. Here's an outline of what children learn through picture books they like.

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Grade Retention Harms Children, Corrupts Test Data, But Not a Miracle: Mississippi Edition via @plthomasEdD

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@NancyEBailey1 1946 picture book Bright April, fictional African American family (postman father, brother in army, sister in nursing school, main character a Brownie scout learning handcrafts, birdwatching, tree study) provided mirror of herself to youngster in NYC, now Librarian of Congress.

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