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The Standardized Testing Horror Show is Not Over!

June 24, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Several well-received reports and blog posts provide hope that high-stakes standardized testing is reaching the end of its days. Good riddance! But before parents, educators, and students relax, it’s important to realize this horror show is not over. Think of the movie Carrie. The audience shivers through the scary scenes. It wraps up. Then, Stephen […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Competency-based assessment, Embedded Assessment, high stakes standardized testing, Online assessment, performance-based assessment, Personalized Learning, public schools, testing

With One Reply, Betsy DeVos Told Us Her Real Plan for America’s Public Schools

March 30, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 23 Comments

In one of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s most troubling responses of both days of testimony, she responded to an inquiry by Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) about this nation’s crumbling school infrastructure. It comes about 1:09:45 into the tape (below) from the PBS News Hour. It’s important to remember that she has always said that public […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Crumbling Facilities, Crumbling Public school buildings, Digital Learning, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Personalized Learning, Rebuild America's Schools Act, Senate Testimony of Betsy DeVos 2019

Nineteen For 2019: Choose This, NOT That, to Save Public Education in the New Year!

December 31, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

1.  Kindergarten NOT The New First Grade Kindergartners should be treated like the four and five-year-old students that they are and not pushed to be first graders. The activities and instruction for this age group are well established. Real educators should take charge and ensure that there’s much free play and age appropriate activities. 2.  […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Armed Teachers, Betsy DeVos, Digital Learning, Diversity, Gun Control, kindergarten, Librarians, Lower Class sizes, Maker spaces, mental health, New Leaders, Online assessment, Partners, Personalized Learning, portfolio schools, principals, sameness, School Boards, School CEOs, school facilities, School leadership, school libraries, school mental health services, school safety, School Systems, Separation of Church and State, special education, Superintendents, Teach for America, teacher assessment, teachers, Whole Curriculum

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

Teachers, Hold On to Your Desks! YOU Make Instruction Work!

August 17, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

Teachers, hold on to your desks! Your classroom footprint matters! It’s always a thrill this time of year to see teachers on social media showing off their classrooms. Not only are teachers proud of their workspace, they understand that the ambience in those rooms is critical to how students feel about learning and school. Teachers often dip […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Desks, Personalized Learning, Self Instruction, students, teacher desks, Teacherless Classrooms, teachers, Technology

K-12 Mega-Merger: What Strange World Is This? Teachers Want Lowered Class Sizes!

July 16, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Teaching children can be a beautiful thing. But there are so many needs right now due to years of inadequate funding and mismanagement. One solution to many problems is lowering class sizes. But read this article about a K-12 Mega-Merger and it’s easy to see that lowering class size is only on the minds of […]

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School Transformation Double Talk Threatens Students and Teachers

June 12, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

It’s easy to be confused by what is said about schools today. We are told one thing, when quite the opposite is taking place. We are told that with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), education will involve local decision making. Simultaneously, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is giving $44 million to affect state […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: customized learning, Digital Learning, Knowledgeworks, north dakota, Online Charter Schools, Online Learning, Personalized Learning, Proficiency-Based Learning, School Transformation, teacher creativity, teachers, Ted Dintersmith, venture philanthrophy

Alternative Routes vs. Growth Mindset: Shouldn’t School Be Like a Map?

June 9, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Maybe you are planning a trip over the summer. Are you going to tackle the Grand Canyon? Perhaps you’re going overseas to Italy, or some exotic place that has always been on your bucket list. Maybe you will stay home and enjoy relaxing in the backyard. Why don’t we tell children that school is like […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: adaptation, alternate routes to learning, customized learning, growth mindsets, Personalized Learning, public schools, school destinations, student uniqueness

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@SecCardona @usedgov Wondering if every public school in the U.S. now offers quality art and music classes, & students have access to a rich arts program? Are the arts returning under the Biden administration? They've been missing in poor schools for awhile, since NCLB.

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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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