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What I Believe Emily Hanford Misses About Reading

November 6, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 24 Comments

Emily Hanford has brought attention to reading, including several new podcasts, Sold a Story, claiming children have been harmed for years by reading instruction. She singles out programs she says failed. The stories about children are compelling. But she leaves out some history, and I don’t think she’s ever critical of any of the many […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Data Collection, IDEA, Online Instruction, Privacy Concerns, public school reform, Reading First, Resource Class, retention, teachers

Special Education and School Choice: Not Great Choices, If Any

July 24, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Years of school reforms have stripped public schools of disability services, creating problems for parents (See Carl Peterson’s recent Exterminating Special Education). Parents may turn to charter, parochial or private schools, online learning, or homeschooling, only to find choices lacking, or the school may not want their child, leaving parents in the lurch. Charter Schools […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, homeschool, Online Instruction, Parochial Schools, private schools, School Choice, special education

Public School “Reimagine” and “Revolution” Hypocrisy: Put Them Out to Pasture!

April 19, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Teachers and parents on the frontlines of this pandemic should be given control of how their schools are reimagined in the future. When this crisis ends, they should be given the voice on how to bring back democratic public schools and make them their own. Any revolution surrounding schools is theirs. Those who foisted unproven and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: a public school revolution, charter schools, Common Core, counselors, high-stakes testing, One-size-fits-all, Online Instruction, past school reforms, reimagine public schools, School Librarians, school libraries, School Nurses, teachers, vouchers

Will Online Instruction Replace Brick-and-Mortar Schools After the Covid-19 Crisis?

March 31, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

While parents shelter-in-place maintaining a sense of normalcy for their children, those critical of public education won’t stop criticizing public schools. They believe that technology should replace teachers and brick-and-mortar schools. They imply that after this difficult period ends, we will move from brick-and-mortar schools to online instruction. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos In her recent […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brick-and-Mortar Schools, Covid-19 and school, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Online Instruction, public education, school structure, seat time

Without Professional Teachers, Special Education is a Joke!

July 12, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

How do school districts bypass special education services and get away with it? One way, is to make it look like special education services are being restored, but due to a teacher shortage, the district must rely on teachers without classroom experience. Special education, all teaching really, but special education, especially, demands teaching qualifications. To […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Corporate Reform, Detroit Public Schools, Online Instruction, special education, Teacher Certification

Nebraska: The Online Worm in the Apple

November 6, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Nebraska’s Great Public Schools When you get to feeling bad about awful school reform, it’s nice to reflect on Nebraska. It has been a shiny, organic apple. But now it has a worm in it when it comes to online instruction. The state has been mostly immune to draconian reform. Probably this is largely due […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: K12, K12 International, Nebraska, Online Instruction, privatization, public schools, School Privatization

12 Reasons Why Digital Personalized Learning is Not Special Education

October 10, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

A recent article in Business Insider describes how Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg got their idea for digital personalized learning from special education. A light bulb lit, and they realized that students placed according to their academic level online is needed for every child—not just students with disabilities. They liked the way special education teachers […]

Filed Under: Featured, Special Education Tagged With: Bill Gates, charter schools, Cheating, Cyberbullying, Digital Personalized Instruction, high-stakes testing, Mark Zuckerberg, Ongoing Assessment, Online Charter Schools, Online Instruction, School Privatization, socialization, special education, Student Differences

New Social-Emotional Standards to Complement Common Core

August 6, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 41 Comments

If you thought Common Core State Standards were bad, look out! Here come the new social-emotional standards to complement Common Core—because nothing says children have feelings more than benchmarks! Today’s Common Core State Standards are aligned to high-stakes testing that closes schools and pushes good teachers out. Of course, many parents have not been happy […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Behavior, Benchmarks, Children, Common Core, Online Instruction, schools, Social-Emotional Standards, Technology and Schools, Tennessee

New Assessment Aligning Students with Severe Disabilities to Common Core

April 28, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

There is new Common Core assessment claiming to be “rigorous” for students with severe cognitive disabilities. Do students with severe disabilities need rigor? The assessment is being likened to a “journey” like a beautiful trip. Or, is it a trip to nowhere? It touts accountability, but I see no safety net for students if they […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Behavioral Modification, Common Core, Competency-Based Education, Digital Instruction, Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM), E-Learning, Embedded Assessment, high-stakes testing, National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC), Online Instruction, Personalized Learning, rigor, Rigorous, Severe Cognitive Disabilities, special education

Hillary Clinton, Zip Codes, and School Equality

April 17, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

The point often made during debates by Sec. Hillary Clinton is that children should not get a poor education based on their zip code. Most of us would agree about poverty and its harmful effects on children in school. But the zip code message was co-opted a long time ago by those who want to […]

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doctorsam7 Dr. Sam Bommarito @doctorsam7 ·
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Thanks to @eriuqse695 for bringin this article to ur attention. Chall's views @ChaseJYoung1 @NarelleLyn @londonjohn9 @LRobbTeacher @ericlitwinbooks @pvalleybooks @JPageLiteracy @TCRecord @RacheGabriel @ssvincent @MicheleDufresne @plthomasEdD @EllinKeene @TimRasinski1 https://twitter.com/DoctorSam7/status/1640376017809289219

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@KJWinEducation Also, consider this well-researched piece indicating that the views of the extreme phonics folks don't square the views of Jean Chall, the researcher who championed the use of phonics during the last reading wars. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/26/the-science-of-reading-and-the-rejection-of-picture-books/?fbclid=IwAR3K0fz-cWKbAh-mitL347hMrWGEjC0Gtd_PIxegTc0RiuzPoXxXSdoW7Cg

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"Good teaching has always been – even if unacknowledged – about applying new knowledge and challenging beliefs." @NancyEBailey1 @janresseger https://bit.ly/42Hw3td

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Remember the days when Arne Duncan insisted that having different ‘goal posts’ in every state was preventing us from improving public schools in America? Good times.

I wish I could say we’ve evolved since 2015, when Duncan stepped down. https://teacherinastrangeland.blog/2023/03/25/the-absolute-folly-of-standardization/

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Reminder: join us tonight at 7PM EST for #TalkoutofSchool @wbai with Rep. @JamaalBowmanNY discussing his new bill #MoreTeachingLessTesting; & 2 PEP members @tomcsheppard & @OuterBoroHero explaining why they voted no on the Mayor's education budget.

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Science of Reading camp never discusses the importance of picture books. How much time do children get to explore them? How often are they read to for enjoyment? This is worrisome. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/26/the-science-of-reading-and-the-rejection-of-picture-books/

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