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3rd Grade Reading Laws Are Harmful

September 21, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

By Stefanie Rysdahl Fuhr Many states insist that students read by third grade. If students have difficulties they might be retained. Students might master reading later. They should not be punished if they aren’t reading perfectly in third grade. Last spring I sent this letter to my state legislators.  Feel free to use it as […]

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The Haunted Third Grade Classrooms Children Fear: Enter and… Stay Forever!

October 29, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Children fear third grade retention. It doesn’t motivate them to learn. They don’t read earlier because of it. Retention is not effective. It’s scary and could haunt a child forever. Third grade retention laws are real for children in nineteen states. NEA Reports noted in 2017 that 16 states and Washington D.C. make it mandatory that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: dyslexia, expectations, Flunking, high-stakes testing, retention, third grade, third grade retention

It’s Time to Erase Harmful, Recycled Education Policy!

October 4, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Serious education issues in public schools are recycled because the ulterior motive of some is to end public education. Research is repeatedly ignored. Why are school administrators clueless? How is it that legislators repeatedly recreate policy we know is harmful for students? Each heading contains a link to proof. End Retention. Research is clear that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 3rd Grade Retention, Alternative Strategies to Retention, high-stakes testing, Homework/busywork, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, kindergarten, Kindergarten is the New First Grade, libraries and librarians, nonstop online testing, online behavioral data, retention, teacher qualifications, the arts

My Blogging Anniversary: How Has School Reform Changed in Five Years?

August 21, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

I recently passed the five-year anniversary of when I started writing my blog. What has changed? In this post, I analyze some of the issues I’ve written about over the years. Then, I thank you for your support. Change or lack of change in education can seem dark and foreboding, but there’s a great deal […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 5th year anniversary, charter schoos, class size, Common Core, data, early childhood education, reading, recess, retention, Social Emotional Learning, special education, standardized testing, Technology, the arts, vouchers

FORCE & FLUNK: Destroying a Child’s Love of Reading—and Their Life

October 9, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 40 Comments

We are now in the dangerous era of FORCE & FLUNK when it comes to children and reading. Here’s how it works. FORCE A frenzy surrounding reading is caused by school reformers and the media, claiming children are not learning to read fast enough. Kindergarten is the new first grade, automatically making preschool the new […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Flunking, kindergarten, preschool, Pushing children to read too early, reading, Reading Programs, retention, Technology

What’s Scary to Kids: Having Dyslexia and Being Held Back in Third Grade!

October 31, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

You thought I forgot Halloween because I posted earlier today? No. Here is an old post that is unfortunately still relevant today. There is no point in rewriting what is already said. Happy Halloween! Have fun and stay safe out there! ___________________________________________________________________ With certain states jumping on the retention bandwagon, even though we know retention […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Accountability, dyslexia, high-stakes testing, retention, Scary, third grade

Michigan to Retain Children with Lead Poisoning

October 7, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Michigan has a lead problem with its children in Flint, and a governor who failed badly his own accountability test. Many wonder why he is still governor. Some wonder why he isn’t in jail. But yesterday he signed off on a bill to fail third graders. How many children in Flint will wind up failing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Failure, Governor Snyder, Michigan, Michigan Legislators, retention, third grade

Arizona Fails its Children!

July 13, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

Arizona is holding back 1,400 third graders. I guess they are following Florida’s misguided lead. The Arizona Department of Education said the third-graders did not pass the math and English portions of the Arizona’s Measurement of Educational Readiness to Inform Teaching — AzMERIT — test. (KTAR News) Expect More Arizona seems O.K. with the failures. Here […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arizona, Dropping Out, Expect More Arizona, Failure, Mandatory Retention, Reasons Retention is Bad for Children, retention, Social Promotion, Strategies to Avoid Retention, third grade, Wrightslaw

What’s Scary to Kids: Having Dyslexia and Being Held Back in Third Grade!

October 31, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 28 Comments

With certain states jumping on the retention bandwagon, even though we know retention doesn’t work, where do students with dyslexia fit? Students with reading difficulties should not have to flunk third grade to get the help they deserve. Many children with reading difficulties, who do not have IEPs, are being held back. In fact, probably […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: accountabiity, dyslexia, Politicians, retention, third grade

For You Michigan!—You Are WRONG about Retention!

October 17, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 16 Comments

There are some issues, like the loss of recess and retention of third graders, that make no sense at all. I can sometimes understand mistakes, attribute them to people being clueless, but when it comes to retention the research is there. Anyone who knows how to read and puts some time into it will learn […]

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

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No Child Left Behind left an entire generation behind.

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