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How Dwindling Human Interaction in Public Schools Hurts Us as a Society

August 7, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Look at the picture above. Is the boy going to pick on the girl, or will he invite her to play with the other children? In today’s impersonal school climate, how do students learn about those around them? When there’s no chance of bringing students together in school, how will children better understand their peers? […]

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The Sad Impact of Corporate School Reform on Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities

January 26, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

We have a lot of troubled kids. As of 2016, approximately 1 in 5 youth aged 13–18 (21.4%) experiences a severe mental disorder at some point during their life. For children aged 8–15, the estimate is 13%. HERE. Schools should be on the front line to assist children and adolescents with mental health difficulties. But […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Art, Betsy DeVos, Children, Data collecting, eliminating special education services, emotional disabilities, high-stakes testing, inclusion, mental health, music, no excuses, One-size-fits-all, play, recess, Rewards, School Choice, Social Emotional Learning, Teach for America, teachers, teens

The Lost Joy of of Putting On a Play: What Children Miss in a “No Excuses” World

October 27, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 21 Comments

How many elementary school plays do children get to perform in? Do schools have time for plays anymore? Do children ever get to act out dramatically? Drama can’t be tested. So plays might become a burden for teachers forced to worry about school accountability. Since NCLB, and no excuses for poor test scores, became popular, […]

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@ChristinaNosek @sarahlouwou Does a program serve as a tool of teacher autonomy or replace teacher autonomy?

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Dear @nytimes @DanaGoldstein

This is a *market* response to misguided state-level legislation banning reading program; this is *not* proof media misinformation about reading is true

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/us/reading-teaching-curriculum-phonics.html

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SecCardonaSecretary Miguel Cardona@SecCardona·
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Thanks to @POTUS & the FTC, we are working to strengthen privacy protections for our children and students. This work ensures that companies cannot exploit our children to make money.

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Vote4HammondMike Hammond@Vote4Hammond·
20 May

The education “report” released yesterday is a brochure produced by a non-VA company who’s entire goal is to remove money and students from public education.

We need to invest more into our public schools now, not less, to provide a quality education for every student in VA.

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NaderDIssaNader Issa@NaderDIssa·
20 May

Breaking: A massive data breach has exposed four years’ worth of records of almost 500,000 Chicago Public Schools students and nearly 60,000 employees, district officials told principals today. w/ @bylaurenfitz https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2022/5/20/23132983/cps-public-schools-data-breach-students-employees-records-battelle-kids

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