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“The Truth About Reading” Is Missing Truths and Backstory

October 14, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 110 Comments

Americans are getting primed with a trailer for a new documentary called The Truth About Reading. It’s said there needs to be a grassroots movement of parents and educators who are angry and say enough is enough. Wouldn’t it be better if teachers and parents met and shared their concerns about reading at their schools? Schools […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "The Truth About Reading", adult illiteracy, Common Core, dyslexia, learning disabilities, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Reading First, the every child succeeds act

How Corporate School Reforms and Ed-Tech Cause Dangerous Distrust about Covid-19

August 14, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Last year, when Covid-19 drove teachers to switch to remote learning, the antennae of those following corporate school reforms over the years shot up. Many had worried about the push for ed-tech to replace teachers and school buildings. Suddenly a strange disease accelerated that agenda. For some, this has led to a dangerous distrust about […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Betsy DeVos, Bill Gates, Common Core, Corporate School Reforms, Covid-19 Safety in Schools, Distrust about Covid-19, Ed-tech in Schools, Every Child Succeeds Act, Gov. Jeb Bush, NCLB, Privatization of Public Education, Race to the Top, the Delta variant

Preparing Teachers to Teach Reading: What Happened?

May 31, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

It’s easier to be ideological if you don’t have children sitting in front of you day after day. When you’re trying an approach and it’s not working, you have to back up and say, ‘I have to try something else.’ You can’t say [students] don’t fit the program. ~Dottie Fowler, a 15-year veteran teacher, 1998 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alternative reading programs, Common Core, dyslexia, Education Week, NCLB, Race to the Top, reading, Reading Preparation Programs, Teach for America, The Learning First Alliance

The Stealth Campaign Against Public Schools and the Public Space

March 25, 2017 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Sheila posted this exactly two years ago and her words are still stunning. The post has been  recirculating and I wanted to highlight it. Many thanks to Sheila Resseger for her passionate and pointed writing. By Sheila Resseger, M.A. Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACT, ALEC, Bill Gates, Chamber of Commerce, Common Core, Democrats for Education Reform, PARCC, Race to the Top, SAT, SBAC

President Obama’s “Bubble” and Our Fear of Losing America’s Democratic Public Schools

January 16, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr. We become so secure in our bubbles, that we start only accepting information, whether it’s true or not, that fits our opinions. President Obama’s Farewell Address, January 10, 2017 On Martin Luther King, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Common Core, K-12 Education, Martin Luther King Jr, Preschool and Early Child Education, President Obama, President-elect Trump, public schools, Race to the Top, special education, teachers, Technology, the arts, The Every Student Succeeds Act

Pushing the Privatized “Maker Movement” Into Public Schools

October 22, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

The 3D printing market is projected to be worth $8 billion by 2020. —Paul Hill, “Ten statistics that reveal the size and scope of the Maker Movement.” November 3, 2015 Why be skeptical of the Maker Movement and its effect on public schools? The speed to which the Maker Movement is being pushed into schools […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Digital Promise, DIY, Maker Movement, No Child Left Behind, privatization, public schools, Race to the Top, Science Museums, standards, Teacher Credentials

The Stealth Campaign Against Public Schools and the Public Space

March 25, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

By Sheila Resseger, M.A. Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation’s competitive needs.  Jonathan Kozol Our children, our families, our neighborhoods, our public schools, and our democracy itself have become pawns […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACT, ALEC, Bill Gates, Chamber of Commerce, Common Core, Democrats for Education Reform, PARCC, Race to the Top, SAT, SBAC

Head Start and the Hunger Games

August 21, 2013 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

CNN Money reported that 57,000 children will lose out on Head Start due to the Sequester and $85 billion in federal budget cuts. Head Start staffers, some who are parents of the children, will see pay cuts or be fired. http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/19/news/economy/headstart-funding-cuts/   One would think preschool for the poor would be improving. But maybe when […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Head Start, Hunger Games, preschool, Race to the Top

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Pictures are paramount for children learning to read. Lately, they're getting a bad rap. Here's an outline of what children learn through picture books they like.

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28 Sep

Virginians!

This is precisely type of teacher diploma mill program, i.e., iTeach, that our Gov. Youngkin and his leadership team at the Virginia Department of Education is trying to push through without proper vetting.

Here's some vetting for you:
https://twitter.com/benjaminjriley/status/1707378957857792003

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drmaryhoward Dr. Mary Howard @drmaryhoward ·
28 Sep

"When we find a thing we can measure, in this case, how quickly a child can decode words, we make it THE measure of being literate. It is a classic, arrogant mistake that was on full display in that first grade classroom." Leigh Patel

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29 Sep

One of HISD's super's so-called innovations? Are these high expectations of students?

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Pictures are paramount for children learning to read. Lately, they're getting a bad rap. Here's an outline of what children learn through picture books they like.

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