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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 […]

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The “Education Revolution”=Chaos!

December 30, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

The Education Revolution—we hear these words a lot lately referring to public schools. Public schools have always incorporated changes to the curriculum. Some have worked and some have not. But the overhaul to make technology-driven charter schools is unproven and drastic. Here’s a list of Silicon Schools. They are charter schools. Groups like the Relay […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Digital learners, Education Revolution, High Tech High, Privatization of Public Schools, Professional Teachers, public schools, Relay Graducate School of Education, Silicon Charter Schools, students, Teach for America, teachers, Technology

Merry Christmas, Betsy DeVos!

December 20, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

Betsy DeVos seems to believe she is doing God’s work when it comes to education in America. So, I thought this Christmas I would gather some of my favorite Bible verses for her to mull over. He is the reason for the season after all. Merry Christmas, Betsy DeVos! The New Republican Tax Bill and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Jesus, Merry Christmas, poor students, Privatization of Public Schools, Republican Tax Bill and Schools, Republicans, Rich people, the Bible

Piecemeal Privatization of Arts and Music in Public Schools

April 16, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

So you think you saw the Easter Bunny this morning? But you’re not sure. The current status of the arts and music are like that in our public schools. One might think these subjects are returning, they’re back…or, not really. Just like the hippity-hoppity bunny that moves in lightning speed, privatization of public schools is sneaky […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aligning the Arts to Common Core, Arts and Music, Arts and Music Partnerships, Arts Teachers, Common Core, Integrating Arts and Music, Music Teachers, Partnerships, Privatization of Public Schools, Technology

Betsy DeVos and the Ghosts of Education Secretaries Past

December 24, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

As we approach the end of 2016 and look with hope to 2017, educators and parents are concerned about President-elect Trump’s choice of Betsy DeVos for education secretary. I share those concerns. But it is also important to remember the education secretaries of the past and how they have led us to where we are […]

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Do Americans Hate Teachers, Or are they Duped by Teach for America?

September 25, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

With more than $75 million coming in from government at last count and another $220 million from the philanthropic community, we should be seeing more evidence of long-term student gains and far more alumni continuing their impassioned work in the classroom. Patricia Schaefer, NPQ, September 11, 2015 Do Americans understand that by contributing to a […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Career Teachers, Privatization of Public Schools, public schools, Teach for America Donors, Teacher Preparation

Nine Reasons to Look Down on Think it Up

September 15, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

I missed the Think it Up glitz the other night. But I have seen some of the video. So what’s wrong with the wealthy wanting to crowdsource Americans to donate to student/teacher projects that will change the world? Anthony Cody writes a piece about Think it Up on his blog “Living in Dialogue,” and I […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Donors Choose, Privatization of Public Schools, public schools, students, Teach for America, teachers, Think it Up

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.@ChiPubSchools can you tell us how many specIal educators were forced to resign this week due to your policy of not accommodating remote instruction? Break it down by SpEd teachers, SECAs and clinicians

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susanohaSusan Ohanian@susanoha·
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The authors consider the ways in which educational responses to COVID19 exemplify opportunistic disaster
capitalism.
Disaster Capitalism, Rampant EdTech
Opportunism, and the Advancement of
Online Learning in the Era of COVID19
https://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/issue/current

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Who's listening to students? https://nancyebailey.com/2021/01/14/6-ways-high-stakes-standardized-testing-destroys-student-voice/

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Nancy Bailey: Seven Concerns for Public Schools This Year https://dianeravitch.net/2021/01/08/nancy-bailey-seven-concerns-for-public-schools-this-year/

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life loss is way worse than learning loss

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