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Reading Disabilities: Focus on Public Schools NOT School Choice!

January 29, 2023 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Parents of children with reading disabilities might be led to believe that school choice for a charter or private school is better than an actual public school. Still, there needs to be proof that those schools are better or that children will get accepted into good schools. Students may lose protection under the Individuals with Disabilities […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: All-Inclusive National Reading Panel, Betsy DeVos, dyslexia, Louisiana Key Academy, New National Reading Panel, New Orleans Charter Schools, Private and Charter schools, reading disabilities, Reading Results, School Choice, science of reading, Senator Bill Cassidy

Lead Poisoning: A Known Learning Loss Threat

May 10, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

Many parents are concerned about their child’s learning loss due to the pandemic. If children are behind, they can catch up. But there’s another culprit that could cause serious difficulties. Lead poisoning poses a threat to children through the water they drink from lead solder/pipes, dust exposure involving old paint in homes, and living near […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: lead from smelter plants., lead in paint, Lead in school drinking water, lead pipes, Lead poisoning, learning disabilities, reading disabilities

Ideas to Teach Reading and Writing, and Other Stuff, for Students with or without Disabilities: HANDWRITING

March 25, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

It sounds like there’s a shortage of ideas to work with students with or without disabilities, especially students who don’t work well online, or need a break from it. So, I am starting this page and will add to it, if there’s interest, in days to come. I welcome teachers and parents to add whatever […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: covid-19, Cursive Writing, dysgraphia, dyslexia, handwriting, printing, reading disabilities, Teaching Ideas, writing disabilities

The Reading Wars? Who’s Talking About Reading and Class Size?

October 2, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

…extensive research in the reading difficulties of children show that large classes are the basic cause of failure in reading as well as in other subjects. ~Professor Arthur I. Gates, nationally known authority in the field of reading instruction. Elementary School Journal; February 1937. When parents and teachers debate phonics and whole language, they might […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class size, class size and dyslexia, Class Size and Reading, disabilities, Lowering Class Sizes, reading, reading disabilities

Special Ed. Irony: CT Gov. Malloy and Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher

September 20, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

In every state we see an erasing of services for students with disabilities. Consider how Texas managed to omit an appropriate education for students with special needs.  My guess is that in whatever state you live, special education is in trouble. How many children will not get the schooling they need to realize their dreams? […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Connecticut, dyslexia, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Jonathan Pelto, Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher, Profound Disabilities, reading disabilities, special education, Texas

Pinpointing Reading Disabilities to Help Students Succeed

April 10, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Reading disabilities exist. Research in neuroscience is showing this to be true, and public schools and special education should be on the front lines working to remediate these deficits and helping children to adapt so they can be successful in school. One serious drawback for students with disabilities, in the one-size-fits-all class, is that they […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: dyslexia, Reading Comprehension, reading disabilities, Resource Rooms

Suggestions for Parents Concerned About their Student’s Reading Difficulties

December 10, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

My post about reading picture books generated some comments on Facebook about difficulties students have tracking and mixing-up words. Having a child who struggles with reading is never easy. Sometimes you feel like they are on the verge of making a breakthrough—then they get a bad grade or test score and you are right back […]

Filed Under: Special Education, Teaching Tagged With: reading disabilities

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