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Stealing Vocational Dreams: Pushing Career Education Too Soon

May 3, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

If you have a middle school student, chances are the school they’re attending is already discussing career options. While there’s always been a place at this age for discussing a child’s hopes and dreams for the future, the push to make career-ready children is creating a lot of anxiety among parents. Much of this involves […]

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Calling Nurturing Men to the Teaching Profession

June 18, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Happy Father’s Day! I am proud to know many nurturing fathers who are also teachers and who fight for public education. I have also known men who are not fathers, but who are marvelous teachers, who view their students like their own children. Men are needed to teach in this country. There’s supposedly a teacher […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: elementary school, High School, Male teachers, Middle School, Recruiting male teachers, Teacher Shortage, the teaching profession, working conditions for teachers

The Summer Reading Rigor Rebellion

June 11, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 15 Comments

If middle school students require summer reading assignments to coax them to read, shouldn’t we be looking at what went wrong with reading instruction in elementary school? By the time a student reaches middle school, shouldn’t they like to read? Yesterday I noticed some of these summer reading assignments posted online. Reading rigor is found […]

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Robin Williams and Lessons to Be Learned About Kids with Mental Illness in Public Schools

August 12, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

I have been reminded that Robin Williams died of a particularly severe neurological disease called Lewy Body Dementia. This is not a psychiatric disorder, so it is incorrect to associate Williams to mental illness. Unfortunately, this is an older post and the title is stuck. Still, the information about schools and mental illness I hope […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Children, current events, Mental Illness, Middle School, public schools, Robin Williams, special education, suicide

What President Obama Got Right—Warning—It’s Wild and There Was No Drill!

April 22, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

OK. You don’t like Race to the Top or the corporate education agenda that all presidents subscribe to. Me neither. Maybe you don’t like a lot of President Obama’s policies and can’t wait for a new guy…or gal! I get it. But how can you not appreciate the way President Obama has been practicing his […]

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@CNN Maybe those who write the CDC recommendations should visit schools, talk with teachers, & collect data about the reality of window openings in old schools. Just a suggestion. @CDCgov @CDCDirector

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Is EdTrust Behind High-Stakes Testing During This Pandemic? - Is acting Ed Secretary Ian Rosenblum
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Is EdTrust Behind High-Stakes Testing During This Pandemic?
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