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President Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Should Include Teachers! Here’s Why

April 3, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

It’s good that President Biden is focusing on updating school buildings in his infrastructure plan. But there’s another crisis his administration should address. America needs a national movement to get well-prepared teachers into our public school classrooms. The teaching profession has been in crisis mode for years. Much of this crisis has been generated by […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Campaign for a teacher profession, classroom teachers, President Biden's infrastructure plan, Professional Teachers, public schools, teachers

Closing University Education Schools: A Bad Omen

October 17, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

The University of South Florida (USF) has announced the end of their education school due to a $36.7 million university budget cut. The change will save $6.8 million over two years. They’re using the coronavirus as the reason at a time when teachers are struggling to teach students safely. This loss is a bad omen […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: College budget cuts, College of Education, Professional Teachers, Schools of Education, Teacher Preparation, University of South Florida, USF

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

What’s Behind the Teacher Shortage/Crisis? Or is there One?

December 15, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

There has been much talk about a critical teacher shortage, that many say nothing will solve unless drastic measures are taken. But serious teacher shortage talk was emphasized in 1990. Voila! We got Teach for America (TFA). Before that, there were attempts to address teacher shortages in the emergency areas–special ed., science and math et […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Professional Teachers, Seattle teacher shortage 2009, Teach for America, Teacher Shortage

In Honor of Teacher Appreciation Week—Who Are They Kidding?

May 3, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Get ready teachers! The country is priming for that once a year period where you are venerated by America for the work that you do—for all the children you just finished testing the heck out of—through little fault of your own. It’s Teacher Appreciation Week! Want to see how so-called leaders and the media are […]

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@bluevirginia @RTDSchapiro FYI, Tennessee schools rank 28th in the Nation. Virginia ranks 4th. That's it, that's the tweet.

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The Science of Scarcity and Sleep that Education Reformers (Want to) Ignore https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/03/20/the-science-of-scarcity-and-sleep-that-education-reformers-want-to-ignore/ via @plthomasEdD

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Things to ponder about the current discussions around SOR. From ChatGPT @ChatwithGPT
https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/19/what-does-chatgpt-say-about-the-science-of-reading-it-may-surprise-you/?fbclid=IwAR0Fhkczq46nJq8n5ob1q2xF5Q9aFc9ya04TEgYCaVTyEElEQg_UbWfoROY

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I asked ChatGPT "Is the 'science of reading' settled science that determines how reading should be taught?" Here's the response. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/19/what-does-chatgpt-say-about-the-science-of-reading-it-may-surprise-you/

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"The privatization movement has been strategically designed...by billionaires and their fellow investors for specific purposes: to lower their own tax burden, and ideologically to dismantle public education." @NPEaction @NancyEBailey1 @TheAndySpears
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