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Oregon Officials Wonder Why Children Act out: Maybe It’s Because…

October 23, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

They’ve got behavioral problems in Oregon. Kids throwing tantrums, despondence, and there’s plenty of physical aggression to go around. Officials don’t know why. Their data isn’t helping much–and they can’t figure it out–exactly. They know many of the children live in poverty. They might be traumatized due to violence in their lives, and this could […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Behavioral Problems, Common Core, high-stakes testing, Oregon, Physical Education, reading, recess, Stress

Setting Children Up to Hate Reading

February 2, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 221 Comments

Any educator or parent who understands the beauty of reading and the importance of helping a child learn to do it right was appalled to read two recent articles about the subject. Both should make all of us concerned that children are being set up to hate reading. They are being pushed to read earlier […]

Filed Under: Popular Featured, Reading Tagged With: first grade, kindergarten, Oregon, play, preschool, reading, study, University of Virginia

Oregon’s Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Rob Saxton Calls Himself an SOB: I Concur

October 15, 2013 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

While many of us focused on New York’s Ed. Commissioner John King this past weekend, I also watched two YouTube videos that were deeply disturbing from the other side of the country. They both involve Oregon’s Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Rob Saxton. Saxton’s background consists of being a teacher (I can’t find what he […]

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: daycare, expectations, Oregon, P20, reading, Rob Saxton

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More attention should be paid to NCLB's Reading First, a scandal. Results showed children with phonics programs did no better comprehending than children without. Ignoring the findings or highlighting them as positive shows naiveté.

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26 Nov

Just about every bad thing MN philanthropies have done to public ed was predicated on the lies in NAR, including the @BushFoundation's TEI

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More attention should be paid to NCLB's Reading First, a scandal. Results showed children with phonics programs did no better comprehending than children without. Ignoring the findings or highlighting them as positive shows naiveté. https://nancyebailey.com/2019/08/28/is-nclbs-reading-first-making-a-comeback/

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27 Nov

Portland kids will go back to school tomorrow for the first time since Halloween (albeit two hours late). Here's our story unpacking the details:

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susanoha Susan Ohanian @susanoha ·
27 Nov

11/27/50 Kevin Henkes b. His favorite book as child: "Is This You?" by Ruth Kraus. He still has it. He named cat for an adult favorite, E.B.
I love all Kevin Henkes books but golly, this one is so wonderful.

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