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When the Last Real Teacher Says Goodbye: The Dangerous Myths Driving Their Exit

May 13, 2023 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

As this year’s Teacher Appreciation Week ends, Americans might want to think about a country without real teachers. In the future, technology may control and monitor children. Their data will continue to be sought after by companies. Teaching will increasingly be about profitmaking, and tutors or fast-track trained Teach for America types will supervise classrooms […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: school nonprofits, School Privatization, Teach for America, Teach Plus, Teacher Appreciation Week, The College Board, the loss of real teachers

Who’s Behind PBS News Hour’s Gloomy Reporting About Student Learning?

April 16, 2023 By Nancy Bailey 37 Comments

Arne Duncan (Obama) and Margaret Spellings (G. W. Bush), noneducators and former education secretaries, recently appeared on PBS News Hour, Study shows parents overestimate their student’s academic progress to dash any hope parents might have that their children are doing well in school. Who’s behind such gloomy reporting? Here’s how PBS begins, and here’s the survey: […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amplify, charter schools, EdReports, Grades, Learning Gaps, learning heroes, opportunity gaps, parents, Parents and teachers, PBS News Hour, public schools, School Privatization, students, Study shows parents overestimate their student's academic progress, teachers

How Stressing Preschoolers and Kindergarteners Could Lead to Mental Health Problems

March 13, 2023 By Nancy Bailey 19 Comments

There has been a pushdown of academic expectations for years, and Americans should be asking how much stress this causes all students, especially our youngest learners. If a child struggles in preschool or kindergarten, it might be due to pressure. Why force children to rush through preschool and kindergarten to learn skills that never would […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, kindergarten pressure, No Child Left Behind, Preschool pressure, public schools, School Privatization, student mental health

Connecting Big Business with The Science of Reading: Replacing Teachers and Public Schools with Tech

November 29, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

A troubling feature of the Science of Reading (SoR) is the connection between those who believe in the power of phonemes (and more) and those who want to privatize public schools. The old NCLB crowd has been rejuvenated and seems onboard with digital instruction replacing public schools and teachers. Understanding this connection is critical for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Corporate Connection to the Science of Reading, Cyber Schooling, Online Learning, School Privatization, science of reading

Hurricane Ian: How Are the Children and Public Schools?

October 11, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Hearts go out to those suffering from Hurricane Ian. It’s hard to fathom what Florida residents and those from hurricane-affected areas are experiencing. How are the children? How are they handling the disruption? Will public schools change? As of Tuesday morning, October 4, 2022, according to the Florida Department of Education, the following K-12 school […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: closed schools, disaster capitalism, florida hurricane, Hurricane Ian, learning loss, School openings, School Privatization

Dear Dr. Cardona: Punitive Student Assessment is Meant to Privatize Public Schools!

October 1, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona recently wrote to tell state education departments not to use test data punitively after the pandemic. He doesn’t seem to understand the history of high-stakes testing and its use to privatize public schools. From Cardona: The purpose of this letter is to remind all who report and interpret student outcomes this […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: High Expectations, high-stakes standardized tests, punitive assessment, School Privatization

The Future of Education? Who Decides How OUR Public Schools Run?

March 28, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Who determines how America’s democratic public schools are run? Is it the Americans, Democrats, and Republicans, who elect a school board to democratically represent their community? Why do nonprofits working with corporations get to decide the future of our public schools? What gives them the right to determine what teachers should teach and how schools […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), Collaborative for Student success, Common Core, Corporations and public schools, Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, high stakes standardized testing, Nonprofits and public schools, School Privatization, School Vouchers, the EduRecoveryHub, The Future of Education

The End of Public Schools? 5 Community School Concerns

March 21, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 25 Comments

Are community schools privatizing public education from within through partnerships? If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, isn’t it a duck? It’s hard to distinguish the Biden administration’s Full-Service Community Schools and Charter School difference (see below). Americans fail to invest in schools and children have unmet […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Community Schools, Data Collection, Pay for Success, President Reagan, school Partnerships, School Privatization, Social Impact Bonds, The Biden Administration

Are Education Secretary Cardona and Betsy Devos Twins?

January 12, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

Teachers had hope when President Biden chose Miguel Cardona to be education secretary, an educator, that he’d be different from the billionaire corporate shill, protector from grizzly bears, and school choice proponent Betsy DeVos. There’s still hope for that, but there are also reasons to wonder. Cardona’s reactions to the Covid crisis seem eerily like […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Covid, Education Secretary Betsy Devos. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Get Your Teach On, Omicron, Ron Clark Academy, school, School Privatization

Charters and Vouchers to Destroy Virginia’s Public Schools Will Involve Questionable Data Collected on Children

December 22, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin is wasting no time setting the wheels in motion to destroy public education in Virginia, considered the fourth-best public school system in the country. If he manages to do this, it will add to America’s already ominous future of free public schooling, school ownership shifted to big business instead of constituents. Most […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aimee Rogstad Guidera, data collection and privacy, Data Quality Campaign (DQC), Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin, Inbloom, public schools, School Privatization, students and data collection in schools, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Virginia, Virginia's new education secretary

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