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The Headband Obsession With Student Concentration

January 27, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 20 Comments

Headbands created to collect information about student attending behavior are the latest trend. Adults monitor and gather information from students’ brains to see if they stay focused on schoolwork. Here’s the Vulcan Post that discusses Neeuro, from just one company jumping on the headband bandwagon. This falls into the social-emotional “good behavior” and “self-regulation” learning […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class size, concentration, focus, headband monitoring, On-task behavior, Public School, School Privatization, SLANT, student concentration, Student Privacy, teachers, Technology

Dedicated to Moms Who Complain

May 14, 2017 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Happy Mother’s Day! Sometimes moms who make complaints are looked down upon—given the eye roll by certain school officials. But with today’s school reforms, complaints can change a child’s schooling and even provide needed support for teachers and schools. Today, I pay tribute to a mom, Yadira Calderon, who recognized that, in her child’s case, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism, Happy Mother's Day!, IEP, Moms, Parents and Complaints, Public School, Teachers and Moms, Technology

President Trump, Betsy DeVos, and the Elitist Drive to End Public Schooling

January 23, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of social machinery. —Horace Mann President Trump, a billionaire, has demonstrated elitist hatred for our most public democratic institution and its teachers. It is the institution, despite its problems, that has the greatest chance of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Demoncracy, Elitism, President Trump, Public School

Capstone—Should Middle and High School Students Do a Thesis?

August 19, 2015 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

A good parent, who cares about her kids and is savvy about what is happening with school reform, asked me if I knew anything about capstone projects. She’s concerned and I don’t blame her. For years, the Great Schools Partnership has been pushing middle and high school students to do a capstone project much like […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Capstone Projects, education reform, Great Schools Partnership, Nationalistic Education, private school, Public School, Thesis

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27 Nov

More attention should be paid to NCLB's Reading First, a scandal. Results showed children with phonics programs did no better comprehending than children without. Ignoring the findings or highlighting them as positive shows naiveté.

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roblevine82 Rob Levine @roblevine82 ·
26 Nov

Just about every bad thing MN philanthropies have done to public ed was predicated on the lies in NAR, including the @BushFoundation's TEI

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27 Nov

More attention should be paid to NCLB's Reading First, a scandal. Results showed children with phonics programs did no better comprehending than children without. Ignoring the findings or highlighting them as positive shows naiveté. https://nancyebailey.com/2019/08/28/is-nclbs-reading-first-making-a-comeback/

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jrlsilverman Julia Silverman @jrlsilverman ·
27 Nov

Portland kids will go back to school tomorrow for the first time since Halloween (albeit two hours late). Here's our story unpacking the details:

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susanoha Susan Ohanian @susanoha ·
27 Nov

11/27/50 Kevin Henkes b. His favorite book as child: "Is This You?" by Ruth Kraus. He still has it. He named cat for an adult favorite, E.B.
I love all Kevin Henkes books but golly, this one is so wonderful.

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