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

November 29, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 15 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

Democrats the Education Party? Stop Promoting that Message

November 3, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

I’m sorry Democrats didn’t do better last night because they might be somewhat better for public education. Maybe they will regroup and come back stronger for real public education and teacher support. Last night during the election results, the media portrayed Democrats as the education party, but for years Democratic policymakers have turned on teachers […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Corporate Reform, Corporations, Democratic Party, pandemic, public schools, Republican Party, School Privatization, Teachers' Unions, universal preK

Adult Organized Recess Isn’t Real Recess! How the Pandemic is Being Used to Privatize P.E. As Recess

August 28, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Children should own recess. Adults own P.E. It should be as easily understood as that. But those who wish to privatize public education are conflating the two. They’re using Covid-19, and social-emotional learning, to privatize P.E, calling it recess when it’s not. A Brief History of The Loss of Recess In 1998, The New York […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: covid-19, Delta Variant, Is Playworks replacing P.E? Physical Education, recess, School Privatization, Unstructured Play

Kindergarten Learning Loss Message Is HORRIFYING for Children!

March 19, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, high-stakes testing, Common Core, and other bad school reform measures are coming together with Covid-19 to destroy the futures of America’s youngest learners! They include the same equity and disparity talk used to ramp up the above harmful policies. Those changes to schools, all that rigor talk, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: covid-19, early childhood education, high-stakes testing, learning loss, public schools, School Privatization, teachers

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piper4missouri Piper for Missouri @piper4missouri ·
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“Fund the student, not the system.” is code for “we don’t give two shits about disabled or rural kids.”

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Next up in my Reading:
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Theory of Learning vs. A Theory of Teaching lots to dig into here!!

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joshcowenmsu Josh Cowen @joshcowenmsu ·
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Typically no, #schoolvouchers don’t cover full tuition. And the few schools that aren’t sub-prime providers and do offer a good #education will often deduct the voucher from student financial aid packages. https://twitter.com/amkrspz/status/1618945335220662273

Kelly Zabilka @Amkrspz

@piper4missouri @joshcowenMSU People know that vouchers won’t cover full private school tuition. Right? I feel this isn’t being explained clearly enough.

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4publicedva 4publicedva @4publicedva ·
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Is this how we want our tax dollars for schools spent? https://twitter.com/ExurbanCowgirl/status/1618694065532604416

LoCo Mama ☮️ @ExurbanCowgirl

One of Loudoun’s 2 charter schools hosts an event with the right wing Association of American Educators then closes school for a week to send staff to New Orleans 🤷🏻‍♀️ Do we pay for PD like this for other @LCPSOfficial teachers?

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dianeravitch Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈 @dianeravitch ·
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A must-read. School choice started as a means of resisting the Brown decision and racial desegregation. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/01/14/the-dark-history-of-school-choice/

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