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Redefining Reading Achievement Creates Reading Problems in Children!

February 12, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 19 Comments

A critic who charges that children aren’t reading well and teachers need to learn about the Science of Reading, also says children must read sooner than they did in the past. This new ideological construct promotes standards that many children will not be capable of achieving. It also sets children and their teachers up to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: A reading crisis, Common Core, reading, Reading Instruction

The Science of Reading Plot to Replace Reading Teachers with Phonics on a Screen

February 5, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 32 Comments

Not only are school districts spending huge sums on laptops with little research to indicate students learn better on computers, they’re also pushing children to face screens to learn the most serious subject, how to read. They’re doing this alongside efforts by corporate reformers to kick teachers out of the classroom, and by promoting the idea […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amplify, Data Collection, iReady, iStation, phonics, Phonics on a screen, Reading Instruction, Technology

Problems Surrounding Amplify’s Core Knowledge Language Arts to Teach Reading

January 24, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 29 Comments

Many teachers and parents raise concerns that instruction is age-inappropriate. Many school districts have signed on to Amplify to teach subjects including language arts and reading. Teachers must teach virtual, scripted, commercial programs. Even if you don’t live in Oklahoma, I recommend checking online to read Tulsa Kids. Betty Casey is the editor and her […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts Online Program, reading, Reading Instruction

Pressuring Parents to Teach Their Kindergartners to Read: The New Norm?

January 10, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 24 Comments

Ahh. There’s no place like home, especially if you’re a kindergartner whose been sitting and working all day on phonics worksheets, or seated in front of a screen doing reading exercises. Once you get off that school bus it will be time to finally make a break for it. Play awaits! Looking at those pictures […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: parents, Pressuring Kindergartners to read, Reading in Kindergarten, Reading Instruction, teachers

It’s Wrong to Force Four and Five Year Olds to Read! Focus on Speaking and Listening Instead!

December 7, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

With No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, some adults have been led to believe that four- and five-year-old children should read by the end of kindergarten. Preschoolers are pushed to be ready for formal reading instruction by the time they enter kindergarten. This is a dangerous idea rooted […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Early Childhood, kindergarten expectations, kindergarten reading demands, preschool expectations, preschool reading demands, reading, Reading Instruction, Speech and listening skills, Unproven reading expectations for early childhood

Problematic “Scientific Based” Phonics: The Flawed National Reading Panel

October 16, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 16 Comments

It’s odd and detrimental that the National Reading Panel is highlighted in reports as science, used to promote phonics and criticize how teachers teach reading. It has become so intense that teachers are being advised to drop certain reading methods to focus solely on “systematic, explicit phonics!” The NRP was discredited long ago. Why it’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, IDEA, Loss of School Librarians, National Reading Panel, NCLB, No Child Left Behind, NRP, phonics, Reading Instruction, School Librarians, school libraries, science readiing, Technology

NCTQ’s “Case Closed” Brain Image Post Plugs Pearson’s RICA Reading Te$t for Teachers. Fails the Smell Test!

August 2, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Kate Walsh, President of the astroturf National Council of Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a group that pretends it’s for teachers and schools when it’s really about privatization, recently published an article “Case Closed” implying that teachers are “science deniers” when it comes to teaching reading. But Walsh’s brain imaging illustration is taken from a research article […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, brain imaging, fMRIs, National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), NCTQ, phonics, reading, Reading Instruction

Reading Instruction, The Attack on Teachers, and Two Areas of Concern

March 10, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

Almost every day there’s another report attacking teachers for how they teach reading. It divides parents and teachers. It’s also dangerous at a time when there’s a teacher shortage and teachers are banding together to try to save not only their profession, but public education. I don’t like to see my profession criticized so harshly […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: dyslexia, For-Profit Colleges, phonics, Reading Instruction, science of reading, Teach for America

How School Reform, Including Common Core, Has Devastated Children and Their Joy of Learning to Read

January 4, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 134 Comments

School reform has taken a toll on children starting in kindergarten (even preschool). There’s little doubt that children are being forced to learn to read earlier than ever before. The reading gap likely reflects the developmental differences found in children when they are forced to read too soon. Why are schools doing this? Forcing kindergarteners […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Common Core, Emily Hanford, Joy of Reading, McGraw Hill, National Council on Teacher Quality, National Reading Panel, phonics, reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Teachers, Reading Wonders, science of reading, teachers

Common Core Creator Slammed Reading Teachers for Having a Research Gap—How Ironic

November 29, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Teachers have enough difficulties. Sometimes you find an article so full of hubris and irony it cannot be ignored. Several weeks ago, I criticized a series of reports about reading by journalist Emily Hanford. Hanford claimed teachers didn’t understand reading instruction and that their education schools failed to teach them what they should know. I made […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Colleges of Education, Common Core, Emily Hanford, phonics, reading, Reading Instruction, Susan Pimental

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plthomasEdDPaul Thomas@plthomasEdD·
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Dear @nytimes @DanaGoldstein

This is a *market* response to misguided state-level legislation banning reading program; this is *not* proof media misinformation about reading is true

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/us/reading-teaching-curriculum-phonics.html

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SecCardonaSecretary Miguel Cardona@SecCardona·
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Thanks to @POTUS & the FTC, we are working to strengthen privacy protections for our children and students. This work ensures that companies cannot exploit our children to make money.

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Vote4HammondMike Hammond@Vote4Hammond·
20 May

The education “report” released yesterday is a brochure produced by a non-VA company who’s entire goal is to remove money and students from public education.

We need to invest more into our public schools now, not less, to provide a quality education for every student in VA.

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NaderDIssaNader Issa@NaderDIssa·
20 May

Breaking: A massive data breach has exposed four years’ worth of records of almost 500,000 Chicago Public Schools students and nearly 60,000 employees, district officials told principals today. w/ @bylaurenfitz https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2022/5/20/23132983/cps-public-schools-data-breach-students-employees-records-battelle-kids

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live4literacyRosemarie Jensen, M.Ed.@live4literacy·
20 May

@missme1on and the Race to the Top finished anyone left.

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