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15 Strange and Scary Goings-On Surrounding Covid-19, Schools, and Teaching

October 12, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

How to handle a pandemic is a new territory for school officials and educators. Here are some observations of odd and downright scary practices surrounding the disease and school attendance. Adults online. Students are in-person. School board members meet online to discuss business. They’re worried about catching the virus, but they determine it’s best to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Catholic Schools, coronavirus, covid-19, hybrid teaching, in-person school, masks, plexiglass, principals, private schools, religious schools, Remote learning, simultaneously teaching, social distancing, standardized testing, teacher planning time, teachers

Impact of President Trump’s Covid-19 Deception on Public Schools

September 13, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

The chief function of a President is to make responsible decisions and to keep Americans safe, especially children and society’s most vulnerable. Bob Woodward, in his new book Rage tells of a president who was publicly playing down the coronavirus threat without acknowledging the severity of the virus, which has now claimed over 190,000 American […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bob Woodward's book, charter schools, coronavirus, covid-19, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, opening public schools, President Trump, private schools, public schools

Is She Focused on Grizzlies Again? DeVos Fails to See the Covid-19 Danger to ALL Schools!

August 7, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Sidestepping Covid-19 to focus on school choice is like DeVos skipping over gun safety concerns about schools to focus on the threat of grizzly bears. I’m of course referring to comments made during her confirmation hearing. Once again, she fails to focus on the real risk. Covid-19 is not going to discriminate between schools. It […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, covid-19, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Parochial Schools, President Trump, private schools, public schools, School Choice

Technology Fails Students. Will It Matter? What’s Next? Private, Parochial, Charters, and Online Programs?

June 7, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

How are schools going to look in the fall? Local school district educators and parents are meeting to draft plans. Weighing heavily on the minds of many is this question, will public schools survive? Will teachers still have a role to play in the education of students? First comes safety. Schools might require a longer period […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, covid-19, online programs, Parochial Schools, private schools, public schools, Technology

“Educational Freedom” is False Advertising!

March 27, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

It sounds so patriotic…Educational Freedom. But public education in traditional public schools is what is truly educational freedom. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other conservatives like former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and current Tennessee Governor Bill Lee are touting their idea of Educational Freedom and they repeatedly make comments implying that poor children will get […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: children of immigrants, Educational Savings Account, ELL Students, free tuition, Parochial Schools, poverty, private schools, Students with Disabilities, vouchers

School Choice Deception: Florida’s Plan and Students Who Don’t Measure Up

December 16, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Florida is a bellwether state. What happens to schools there will move to other states in one form or another. I would like to share a personal story of how I met school choice as a teacher in Florida and how it helped cement in me the desire to advocate for a public school system […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, charter schools, Florida, Governor-elect DeSantis, Jeb Bush, Lake Highland Preparatory School, learning disabilities, private schools, public schools, School Choice, School Privatization, vouchers

How Do We Stop Bullying? Florida’s New Voucher Scam Doesn’t Ask that Question

March 12, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Behind bullying behavior we usually find a depressed individual who needs help. We need to understand why a child bullies and get them that help so they will stop bullying. Most people understand how serious the issue of bullying is to children and the country, and how schools should be on the forefront of addressing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: #Rethink Schools, Bullying, Bullying Behavior, Florida's New Voucher Scam, Gov. Jeb Bush, Patricia Levesque, private schools, Retention of 3rd graders, School Choice, vouchers

IEPs are a Public School Thing: Let’s Not Forget That!

June 16, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

The Governor of Florida and other education reformers seem to have forgotten where Individual Educational Plans (IEPs) started. In this post, I’d like to remind them. The other night I watched the movie Danny Collins. It’s a loosely based true story about a burned out rock star who learns that years earlier he received a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Danny Collins Movie, disabilities, Florida, Governor Rick Scott, inclusion, Individual Educational Plans (IEPs), Parochial Schools, private schools, privatization, Public Law 94-142, Separation of Church and State, special education, vouchers

Private Schools: 3 Reasons Public Schools Are Better!

December 31, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

9093rivate schools don’t always want your children, might not want vouchers, and don’t necessarily do better than public schools! There’s some fascinating information flying around about private schools vs. public schools, and I thought I would write about it today since vouchers are likely going to be a big part of 2017. Kellyanne Conway and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Acceptance, Kellyanne Conway, private schools, privatization, public schools, vouchers

Charter Schools 25 Years Later—and What to Expect in the Future

June 5, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

The charter movement has since expanded to include 43 states plus the District of Columbia, and over 2.5 million students—or about 5 percent of the total K-12 public student population.  Arianna Prothers, Education Week June 4, 2016 Charter schools are 25 years old. My, how time flies. Yesterday, Education Week printed an interview with Ember […]

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ktdaygKatie Day Good@ktdayg·
13 May

Appreciate this list of low-tech, time-honored approaches to teaching social-emotional learning in schools.

In the spirit of @nataliapetrzela’s thoughtful essay today, this is one area where parents + educators on both sides of the pol spectrum could find common ground… https://twitter.com/NancyEBailey1/status/1521106802150199296

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Social-emotional learning is troubling especially due to the sensitive DATA collected on children and how it will be used. It is an issue that should concern all parents and educators. @Screensandkids https://nancyebailey.com/2022/05/02/the-trouble-with-social-emotional-learning-why-be-concerned-heres-why/

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2 May

Social-emotional learning is troubling especially due to the sensitive DATA collected on children and how it will be used. It is an issue that should concern all parents and educators. @Screensandkids https://nancyebailey.com/2022/05/02/the-trouble-with-social-emotional-learning-why-be-concerned-heres-why/

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DASchwartzyDanielle Schwartz@DASchwartzy·
12 May

"Learning Loss" is a marketing scheme invented by ed tech companies, and embraced by the media. They create problems to solve in order to sell products. Oldest trick in the book. https://twitter.com/ELmagazine/status/1524776412233625603

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“If students became more independently driven, or resilient in the face of at-home distractions . . . it wouldn’t necessarily appear in their test scores.” @YongZhaoEd

New research raises questions on capturing a complete view of learning loss. https://bit.ly/3Peuc8A

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SchoolyardNewsSchoolyard News@SchoolyardNews·
11 May

What would happen to Boston schools if the state takes over? Teachers in schools now under state control tell a town hall what it’s like.
#bostonschools #bospoli
https://schoolyardnews.com/life-under-state-receivership-5f80b8c1c37b

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SafeH2o4Schools#GettheLeadOut #ScienceIsReal #TruthMatters@SafeH2o4Schools·
11 May

@hanna_hurley @NancyEBailey1 We're a society that believes the lead issue has been eradicated & the health experts are doing everything possible to protect our children.

It hasn't & they aren't.

Lead poisoning is 100% preventable. https://www.verywellhealth.com/children-lead-blood-levels-5205133

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