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Connecting Big Business with The Science of Reading: Replacing Teachers and Public Schools with Tech

November 29, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 19 Comments

A troubling feature of the Science of Reading (SoR) is the connection between those who believe in the power of phonemes (and more) and those who want to privatize public schools. The old NCLB crowd has been rejuvenated and seems onboard with digital instruction replacing public schools and teachers. Understanding this connection is critical for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Corporate Connection to the Science of Reading, Cyber Schooling, Online Learning, School Privatization, science of reading

Who’s Teaching America’s Students?

August 7, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.  ~Helen Caldicott, Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate. Students need professional teachers with subject degrees if they’re to graduate and gain acceptance to universities or enter the workforce capable of a trade. With […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Deprofessionalizing teachers, Horizons National, Online Learning, Teach Plus, teacher qualifications, Teachers from the Military

The Dangerous End of School Libraries and Public Education

February 18, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

School libraries are critical to maintaining great democratic public schools. The loss of school libraries threatens their existence and a student’s right to receive information. See the American Library Association and The Universal Right to Free Expression: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights.  Many public schools no longer have functioning school libraries or qualified […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Boston Public Schools, Corporate Agenda for Public Schools, Corporate education reform, future ready schools, Online Learning, Philadelphia Public Schools, Public School Privatization, Public School Transformation, School Librarians, school libraries

The Murky World of i-Ready, Grading, and Online Data

February 7, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 25 Comments

Many school districts use Curriculum Associates i-Ready in their classrooms for reading and math, but there appears to be program murkiness. There’s concern that teachers might rely on iReady data for grading rather than their professional expertise. I-Ready provides teachers with data reports of student results, but teachers never see the child’s online responses. They […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Data Collection, i-Ready, i-Ready data, i-Ready grading, large class sizes, Online Learning, overcrowded classrooms, parents and i-Ready, public schools, teacher loss, teachers and i-Ready, teachers replaced by tech, the loss of teachers

Florida and Beyond Assessment Snookering: CBE, Common Core, and Embedded Online Testing, No Teacher Required!

September 16, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

Florida’s Governor DeSantis just announced the end of the Florida State Assessment (FSA), and many Floridians are thrilled, just thrilled, thinking this will be the end of the horrible testing cloud that has hovered over children since NCLB. And they’re being led to believe that Common Core is done, but they’re still using iReady and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Competency-Based Education (CBE), Florida, Florida State Assessment, iReady, Online Learning, School Transformation, state assessment

How States Are Privatizing Public Schools to Tech Companies During the Delta Variant Uptick

September 4, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

It’s unconscionable that states and local school districts across the country have eliminated the remote learning option where children connect with their classroom teachers online. Instead, they’re opening virtual schools, outsourcing to for-profit companies, using the pandemic to privatize public schooling. Parents fearful of the Delta variant and in-person schooling, hearing dire warnings about sick […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: losing teachers, modules, Online Learning, outsourcing, outsourcing schooling, outsourcing with technology, public school threat, teachers, virtual learning

Kindergarten Pandemic Learning Fears Should Not Be Tied to Screen Time and Rigid Drilling

October 28, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Kindergartners and their parents and teachers struggle with the pandemic. When the focus is on problems with children learning online, whether a child will succeed, it might help to revisit what’s developmentally appropriate for a kindergartner. Many reports are raising concern about learning loss in kindergarten. “What Kindergarten Struggles Could Mean for a Child’s Later […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Early Childhood, early childhood development, kindergarten, Online Learning, Technology

The Longtime Plan for Screens to Replace Teachers: School Choice the Prenda Way

September 26, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

No matter your viewpoint on the coronavirus, for those who care about democratic public schools, our fears merge when it comes to worrying that technology will replace teachers and end those schools. Covid-19 is the perfect storm, and Prenda micro-schools are the prototype. These are schools that focus on commercial tech programs without real teachers. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Disruptive" Technology, charter schools, children and technology, covid-19, cyberschools, Online Learning, Prenda micro-schools, Public School Privatization, School Choice, Schools without Teachers, teachers

24 WRONG Reasons to Reopen Schools

July 7, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

The reasons for returning to school might sound good, but those reasons always bump up against the enemy, the coronavirus. Here are concerns that deserve attention, but they are the wrong reasons for schools to reopen. 1. President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos say SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL! Neither the President or […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: academic losses, American Academy of Pediatrics, child abuse, coronavirus, covid-19, depression, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, food insecurity, Online Learning, parents, President Trump, public schools, standardized testing, students, teachers, trauma, working parents

Happy 4th! Celebrating America’s Teachers, NOT Chromebooks!

July 4, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Americans miss their public schools, their universities, and their teachers. On this 4th of July we owe much to the frontline hospital healthcare workers who save lives. Also give thanks for America’s teachers. They stand by their students and are trying to navigate uncertainty concerning Covid-19. Back in March, many believed the virus would be a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 4th of July, chromebooks, covid-19, Online Learning, School Privatization, students, teachers, virtual learning

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