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Special Education and Vendors–Quality Concerns

April 20, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Why must school districts rely on outside companies to hire school workers in special education? Isn’t there more room for error when they hire through unregulated companies? This is a practice that appears to have started with No Child Left Behind and should fall by the wayside now that NCLB is defunct–since the Every Student […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Accountability, Marketing, Mayor Bill DeBlasio, New York City, Personnel Departments, Physical Therapy, principals, Privatization of Special Education Services, public schools, special education, Speech Pathology, Vendors

Discounting Learning Disabilities in B.C., AU, U.S., and England–and Finding HOPE

March 8, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Are they ending special education programs where you live? It turns out this is happening around the world. Parents with students who have learning disabilities can’t find assistance, or, like in England, they are mistreated in institutions. But don’t give up. There is hope, as I explain at the end of this post. Parents in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abbottsford, Arne Duncan, Australia, British Columbia, California, Competency-Based Instruction, England, institutions, Lawsuit, learning disabilities, New York City, New York Regents

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drmaryhoward Dr. Mary Howard @drmaryhoward ·
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Testing &the Love of Reading

“Skills" divorced from content gets us reading comp equivalent of DIBELS, the crazy pants "reading" assessmt that tries to "test" the skill of decoding by having Stds decode words that aren't words--rdg w/o actually reading.”

https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2023/03/testing-and-love-of-reading.html

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repbowman Congressman Jamaal Bowman @repbowman ·
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Our schools have become test based factories where our kids are being forced onto assembly lines.

My More Teaching Less Testing Act would revolutionize our public schools system and ensure our teachers and students can focus on authentic learning, not test based curriculum.

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lvstodance Kathy Beery, M.Ed. @lvstodance ·
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@bluevirginia @RTDSchapiro FYI, Tennessee schools rank 28th in the Nation. Virginia ranks 4th. That's it, that's the tweet.

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plthomasedd Paul Thomas @plthomasedd ·
21 Mar

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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doctorsam7 Dr. Sam Bommarito @doctorsam7 ·
20 Mar

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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