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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

“Reimagining” Teacher Appreciation in 2020: Pushback on the Takeover of America’s Schools

May 6, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

Teacher Appreciation has taken on new meaning in 2020. This week is supposed to be a time to celebrate teachers with 20% off coupons, candy bars, notes, and thank you trinkets. A scrawled homemade card, laboriously designed by a student with learning difficulties, these are the keepers that bring teachers joy. There’s more gratitude for teachers […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: covid-19, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Gov. Jeb Bush, Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!, Online Learning, Reopening schools, School Privatization, Teacher Appreciation Week, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, virtual learning

Disaster Capitalism, Online Instruction, and What Covid-19 Is Teaching Us About Public Schools and Teachers

March 16, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

The last few weeks have been surreal as we learn about the Corona Virus and how to protect ourselves and our neighbors. One of the largest disruptions has been school closings in order to contain the virus. No one knows when schools will reopen. While Covid-19 is of utmost concern, parents and educators, who’ve worried […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: covid-19, disaster capitalism, Online Learning, public schools, school closures, the corona virus

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? […]

Filed Under: Featured, Technology Tagged With: AI in school, artificial intelligence in school, class size, depersonalized learning, disabilities, inclusion, no excuses, Online Learning, Online testing, public schools, segregated charter schools, socialization, standardized testing, student isolation, the lack of school counselors, the lack of school nurses, the loss of the arts in public schools, Zero Tolerance

What’s Behind the Chan Zuckerberg (CZI) Push for “Brain Science?”

November 27, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

It doesn’t matter how much trouble Mark Zuckerberg might appear to be in with Facebook, he and his wife still find time to mess with education and give elitist advice to teachers. Their latest initiative is to claim teachers need to learn brain science. They’re donating $1 million to Neuroteach Global, an online PD platform created […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brain Science, Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, Chan Zuckerberg initiative, Neuroteach Global, Online Learning, Personalized Learning

Personalized (Online) Learning Fails at Classroom Dynamics and Socialization

November 24, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah Think of all that we could sha-are Let’s get together everyday Every way and everywhere And though we haven’t got a lot We could be sharin’ all we’ve got Together ~Haley Mills, From Walt Disney’s The Parent Trap The public school classroom is a sacred community. How students socialize in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: auditory feedback. socialization, Class dynamics, Class dynamics vs. Online Instruction, Communication, Digital Learning, discipline, Diversity, Online Learning, Personalized Learning, public schools, school, special education, student expression, student feedback

Betsy DeVos’s Tour Questions Are About Tech Transformation

October 4, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Betsy DeVos is gearing up for another tour, this time in the South. Chalkbeat shared the questions she is asking about schools. Here I try to interpret her questions with answers to what she is really getting at. I believe her questions are related to technology and “disruption” in education. The drive is to transform […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Corporate Agenda for Public Schools, Online Learning, Personalized Learning, Privatization of Public Schools, public schools, Southern Education Tour, Tech Transformation of Public Schools

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