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14 Reasons Why It Might STILL Be Dangerous to Open School Buildings

August 24, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

For parents and educators, many concerns still surround the virus and sending children back into school buildings. 1. It Seems Like The Virus Should Be Over—It’s Not!  This summer looked like the end of the pandemic was in sight, especially if vaccinated. But now the Delta variant swirls around children, teachers, and staff inside schools. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: covid-19, Delta Variant, long-term covid and children, masks in schools, Remote learning, School Buildings, school mitigation efforts, School Nurses, School reopenings, school rules and covid, school safety, Sports and Covid, students, students with disabilities and covid, teachers

Public School “Reimagine” and “Revolution” Hypocrisy: Put Them Out to Pasture!

April 19, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Teachers and parents on the frontlines of this pandemic should be given control of how their schools are reimagined in the future. When this crisis ends, they should be given the voice on how to bring back democratic public schools and make them their own. Any revolution surrounding schools is theirs. Those who foisted unproven and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: a public school revolution, charter schools, Common Core, counselors, high-stakes testing, One-size-fits-all, Online Instruction, past school reforms, reimagine public schools, School Librarians, school libraries, School Nurses, teachers, vouchers

Reasons Children Have Reading Problems that Corporate Reformers Don’t Talk About

March 20, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 34 Comments

We know of many variables that help children learn to read. But well-designed peer-reviewed research continues to be ignored when it comes to these variables. At the same time, states and school districts continue to promote destructive school policies. We know such policies fail. So, why are they still being used? Here’s why some children […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Children's Health, Common Core, Corporate Reform, Grade Retention, Inappropriate Reading Expectations, Large Class Size, Lead in school drinking water, Loss of libraries and Librarians, Overreliance on technology, public schools, Reading Problems, School Nurses, special education, Teacher Preparation

Online Therapy in Schools? Privacy and Quality Concerns

February 20, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Most of us are concerned when we hear of a credit card data breach in a store or company where we do business. Many parents are also troubled about academic and social-emotional behavioral online assessment data collected about their children in school. But what about your child surrendering their personal and sensitive information in an […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Online therapy, Online Therapy in schools, Privacy issues concerning children, School Counselors, School Nurses, School Psychologists, Student Privacy, student safety

“Dropout Factories”: The Disparaging & Hypocritical Reference to America’s Public Schools and Teachers

April 25, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

How many times do you hear America’s public high schools called “Dropout Factories?” How do those words make you feel? The general public hears these words and unfairly accepts that our public high schools and the teachers working in them are failing. Dropout Factories were highlighted in the awful anti-public school propaganda film Waiting for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: At-Risk Students, counselors, Dropout Factories, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Grade Retention, Johns Hopkins University, Robert Balfanz, School Nurses, School Psychologists, School-based after-school programs, special education

Educating Betsy DeVos

February 15, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Betsy DeVos does not understand what it is like to teach in any school let alone poor public schools. She does not understand what the lives of real teachers and students are like. She does not understand the problems facing many of America’s children. These problems won’t be solved with a voucher. They also won’t […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Common Core, learning, mental health, public schools, Real Problems, School Nurses, special education, teaching, Technology, vouchers

Donald Trump’s Education Mirage

May 14, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Donald Trump’s education agenda is puzzling. Where does he stand and what does he know about public schools, teachers and students? Pam Vogel for Media Matters in America, Eric Robelen in The Atlantic, and Valerie Strauss from the Washington Post questioned Trump’s education agenda. And charter school and No Child Left Behind promoter Nina Rees […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bullying, charter schools, Choice, Common Core, Donald Trump, Health Care, Local Control, Multicultural Education, public schools, School Nurses, special education, U.S. Department of Education, vouchers

Hillary Clinton, Zip Codes, and School Equality

April 17, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

The point often made during debates by Sec. Hillary Clinton is that children should not get a poor education based on their zip code. Most of us would agree about poverty and its harmful effects on children in school. But the zip code message was co-opted a long time ago by those who want to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Counseling Services, Detroit, discipline, Hillary Clinton, libraries, Online Instruction, Over-Testing, Poor Schools, poverty, private schools, Punishing Schools, recess, Rich Schools, Rundown School Facilities, School Nurses, Strictness, teachers, the arts, Wealthy Schools, Whole Curriculum, Zip Codes

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nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
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The focus should be on lifting traditional public schools & reading programs for many students who attend those schools rather than on unproven private and charter schools. Fix IDEA by increasing options. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/01/29/reading-disabilities-focus-on-public-schools-not-school-choice/

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arizona_sos Save Our Schools AZ @arizona_sos ·
28 Jan

Special interests call ESA vouchers “scholarships” because private schools select their students. It’s not “school choice,” it’s the school’s choice 😡#AZVoucherWatch #VouchersHurt #FundOurSchools

http://bit.ly/SellingSchoolChoice

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danwuori Dan Wuori @danwuori ·
29 Jan

On-demand standardized testing has no place in kindergarten. There are far more appropriate and meaningful methods of assessing young children. https://twitter.com/reimagschool/status/1619665302450753536

David Locke @ReimagSchool

My wife's Kindergarten students felt very stressed and were crying when they had to take a standardized test. When she reported this to administrators their solution was "test them until they cry, and then stop." #testthemtiltheycry #resisttesting

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drbradjohnson 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @drbradjohnson ·
28 Jan

Besides the many issues with standardized testing. Most students have no idea what they missed on the tests and teachers don't either. And by time they get results students have moved on to next grade. Making it useless to evaluate teachers & districts too.

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ichrislehman Christopher Lehman 🤪 @ichrislehman ·
27 Jan

One of many absurd theories coming out of states like VA is that reading must be taught from a packaged curriculum followed with fidelity.

I have never ever ever worked with a curriculum that didn’t need to be slightly or completely revised to meet the needs of actual students.

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