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Religion’s Destructive Effect on Public Education this July 4th

July 4, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly? ~Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor On this 4th of July, the country faces divisive problems, including losing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Carson v. Makin, charter schools, freedom of religion, Hillsdale College, keeping public schools public, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, Philadelphia Bible riots, public education, religious freedom, Separation of Church and State

Biden, Harris, and Dr. Biden Will Send DeVos Yachting!

August 22, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

You gotta have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true? ~from the Broadway Play South Pacific If you’re Democrat or Republican, and you care about public education, vote for V.P. Joe Biden to remove Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from the U.S. Department of Education! Four more […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Dr. Jill Biden, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Pres. Donald J. Trump, public education, public schools, Sen. Kamala Harris, V.P. Joe Biden

Will Online Instruction Replace Brick-and-Mortar Schools After the Covid-19 Crisis?

March 31, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

While parents shelter-in-place maintaining a sense of normalcy for their children, those critical of public education won’t stop criticizing public schools. They believe that technology should replace teachers and brick-and-mortar schools. They imply that after this difficult period ends, we will move from brick-and-mortar schools to online instruction. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos In her recent […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brick-and-Mortar Schools, Covid-19 and school, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Online Instruction, public education, school structure, seat time

Invest in Public Schools for ALL Children. Watch Out for Partners or Stakeholders!

January 21, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Public schools should be for all children. The country should get behind and invest in public education and be careful about partners or those that call themselves stakeholders. These are business words that usually mean that public education must rely on outside companies to fund education. This means public schools are no longer under the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Invest in public schools, parents, President Ronald Reagan, public education, public schools, school funding, School Partners, School Privatization, school stakeholders

Truth to Power: Facing the Disruptors with Courage and Resolve

January 18, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

We live in troubling times, reflected in the longtime attacks on one of our most sacred democratic institutions, public schools. But Americans have a fierce fighter for those schools in Diane Ravitch. The historian, in her new book Slaying Goliath, reminds us of the dangers facing schools, but also the hope we have in a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Diane Ravitch, Network for Public Education, public education, Saving Public Schools, Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools

The Summit for Corporate Reformers vs. Teachers Who CLIMB Summits

November 19, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

A summit is defined as the highest peak of a mountain. It’s also a meeting of high-level officials. In education, corporate politicians and reformers promote themselves as child experts. Yet they are far removed from the classrooms where teachers climb mountains every day to help students learn. Chicago teachers recently fought for paraprofessionals to have […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: business and schools, Corporate Agenda for Public Schools, corporate school reform, National Summit on Education Reform, public education, public schools, Red for Ed, school reform, Teachers in Arkansas, Teachers in Chicago, Teachers in Indiana

Teacher Age Discrimination Hurts Students!

March 2, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 43 Comments

Rejecting veteran teachers to keep them from moving up the ladder for pay increases means students miss out on getting to know and learn from elderly people. Teach for America is popular because they remain at the bottom rung of the funding ladder and leave after a few years. This creates a revolving door of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Age Discrimination, public education, public schools, Teacher Age Discrimination, teachers

Thanksgiving: Family, Friends, Teachers, HOPE, and Public Schools

November 22, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. It involves family and friends and is rather unassuming, tucked between the shenanigans of Halloween and the solemn, yet frenetic, Christmas rush. We especially remember those suffering loss today. The tables that aren’t whole due to empty chairs. Loss is a burden on a day to give thanks. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Family, Friendships, hope, love, Peace, public education, public schools, Thanksgiving

The School Safety Commission’s Troubling Ties to the Border Crisis

July 14, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

School safety is simmering in everyone’s minds during summer vacation. But looking at the individuals on the Federal Commission on School Safety should give us pause. How do they view children? There’s cognitive dissonance when they say they want safe schools, yet they thought it fine to separate babies and children from their parents in the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Child Separation from Parents, Children at the border, Family Separation, Federal Commission on School Safety, Gun Control, Gun Safety in Schools, Immigrant Families, public education, public schools, school safety, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielson

On this Memorial Day: Remembering Protectors of Children and Public Schools

May 27, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

On this day, Americans rightfully remember those who fought and died for our freedom. Maybe they will have a barbecue. Perhaps they will make use of the sales and go shopping at the mall. But when they hang the flag, they will thank those who made our country safe, so we can say what we […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Freedom, Horace Mann, Memorial Day, public education, public schools, School Privatization, school safety, Teacher Jason Seaman, teachers, Undocumented Immigrants

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pastors4txkids Pastors for Children @pastors4txkids ·
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Always comical for @BetsyDeVos trolls whining that teachers contribute to us.

Aren’t privatizer billions enough for them?

We will block vouchers again with the powerful teacher/preacher dynamic duo!

Thank you @TexasAFT @OfficialATPE @UEATexas @txstateteachers @texascta! #txed

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roblevine82 Rob Levine @roblevine82 ·
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As MN seems about to adopt a drill and kill phonics fundamentalist literacy curriculum it's worth examining that now “There’s a whole generation of kids who associate reading with assessment" and have come to hate it https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/03/children-reading-books-english-middle-grade/673457/

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joshcowenmsu Josh Cowen @joshcowenmsu ·
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The privatize-schools crowd talks about #parents rights while pushing 3rd grade retention laws taking that decision away from parents and #teachers.

Don’t ever mistake attacks on #publiceducation for #parents rights.

I’m glad our #migov #mileg know the difference. https://twitter.com/SenPolehanki/status/1639328314966802447

Senator Dayna Polehanki @SenPolehanki

“I want to thank Gov. Whitmer for signing this important legislation. Parents and schools should be trusted to make decisions about grade retention—the state shouldn’t mass-flunk 3rd graders without parent input based on one test,” said State Senator Dayna Polehanki (D-Livonia).”

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senlouiselucas L. Louise Lucas @senlouiselucas ·
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Congratulations on your decision to run for public office. We need more women- especially in the Senate of Virginia! https://twitter.com/lvstodance/status/1638883713684520964

Kathy Beery, M.Ed. @lvstodance

@SenLouiseLucas @vademocrats I have filed to run against Senator Obenshain. Long odds, but folks should have a choice. He shouldn't run unopposed.

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drmaryhoward Dr. Mary Howard @drmaryhoward ·
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Testing &the Love of Reading

“Skills" divorced from content gets us reading comp equivalent of DIBELS, the crazy pants "reading" assessmt that tries to "test" the skill of decoding by having Stds decode words that aren't words--rdg w/o actually reading.”

https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2023/03/testing-and-love-of-reading.html

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