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A Chat About Public Schools with Eli Broad’s Ghost

June 13, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

When someone gets to the other side, if they look back, do they question how they could have led their life differently, in this case, in particular, the late Eli Broad and his influence on public education? First, it’s troubling the United States doesn’t tax the wealthy the way they should and that Americans don’t […]

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The 12 Point Covid-19 DISCONNECT Between Teachers and Those Who Want Schools Open Now!

February 4, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Pressure is being placed on teachers to return to in-person classes. Here’s why that’s a problem. 1. Precautions The CDC  and Dr. Fauci and President Biden want all schools to return to in-person learning with precautions in place. But precautions are exactly what many schools often lack. Teachers know best whether or not precautions are […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Communities, covid-19, Funding, learning loss, News, parents, Precautions opening schools, private vs. public schools, public schools, School Privatization, science, student death due to Covid-19, teacher deaths due to covid-19, teachers, Teachers' Unions, vouchers

The Science and Science Labs that Students Miss at a Time When Science is Critical

July 14, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Why are students being held back from being the best they can be in science? Making scientific advancements through exploration involves good preparation of the ninety percent of students who attend public schools across the country. We need good scientists to fix our problems. Climate change, antibiotics, drinking water, pollution, overpopulation, diseases, microplastics and garbage, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: antibiotics, Biology, Biology Olympiad in Hungary, Center for Excellent Education, clean energy, climate change, diseases, drinking water, funding public school science classes, garbage, microplastics, Overpopulation, pollution, science, Science labs, science teachers

Missing an S for Science in the STEM Frenzy

January 6, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 20 Comments

In the midst of the hype about STEM, what happened to science in public schools? Two recent reports in Education Week bemoan the stunning loss of both chemistry and physics in high schools across the country. Three out of five secondary schools don’t offer chemistry! When they do, there’s disparity. Poor African Americans and Hispanic […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Change the Equation, Education Commision of the States, science, Science Instruction, science teachers, STEM, Teacher Shortage, teachers, teaching, Venture Lab, Verizon

The Lopsided Curriculum: Where are Science, Social Studies and the Arts?

March 19, 2016 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Little children are like sponges, soaking up knowledge of the world around them every minute. So when they start formal education, how much science, social studies and the arts do students in elementary school get? Teaching these subjects used to be important. Learning in these areas sent some of us into our future professions. We […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art, Common Core, Drama, high-stakes testing, Lopsided School Curriculum, music, PARCC, SBAC, science, social studies, the arts

Announcing My New Website Format and Blog!

April 14, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

My new website covers Activism and School Curriculum and I still have the Blog. It is more manageable now. Point and clink on the title and the link should appear. The Activism site focuses on groups , organizations and people who are currently working to oppose the harmful reform taking place in our public schools. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Technology Tagged With: activism, blog, curriculum, math, public schools, reading, science, social studies, special education, the arts, website

STEM and Common Core—How Much SCIENCE are Elementary Students Really Getting?

January 9, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Even though students today, in reality, sound capable to tackle STEM jobs, what about the students of tomorrow? With the heavy push for high-stakes testing, the questionable negative rhetoric by the Obama Administration and others about STEM, and the dramatic changes to the curriculum with Common Core State Standards, is this country going to wake […]

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@susanoha @NancyEBailey1 "Sell What We Do": The Manufactured Crisis to Hide the Story Being Sold https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/01/30/sell-what-we-do-the-manufactured-crisis-to-hide-the-story-being-sold/

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Nancy Bailey: Reading Disabilities: Focus on Public Schools NOT School Choice!

“It’s unfair to say public school teachers fail to teach reading, while charter schools show substandard results. This creates a double standard.” @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

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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

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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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