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Anxiety and Depression in the Age of the Super Student

November 15, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, a group of doctors, recently recommended screening children as young as eight for major depressive disorder (MDD). How do eight-year-olds wind up depressed? Depression they say could show up with functional impairments in school performance. Could it be in part because this is the age of the super student? […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class size, early childhood pressure, high school advanced placement, high-stakes standardized tests, homework, middle school career choice, missing curriculum, socialization

How Dwindling Human Interaction in Public Schools Hurts Us as a Society

August 7, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Look at the picture above. Is the boy going to pick on the girl, or will he invite her to play with the other children? In today’s impersonal school climate, how do students learn about those around them? When there’s no chance of bringing students together in school, how will children better understand their peers? […]

Filed Under: Featured, Technology Tagged With: AI in school, artificial intelligence in school, class size, depersonalized learning, disabilities, inclusion, no excuses, Online Learning, Online testing, public schools, segregated charter schools, socialization, standardized testing, student isolation, the lack of school counselors, the lack of school nurses, the loss of the arts in public schools, Zero Tolerance

After the Confession: How Will They Fix the Damage Done to Public Schools?

June 25, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

Nick Hanauer is described as “founder of the public-policy incubator Civic Ventures.” His piece in The Atlantic called “Better Public Schools Won’t Fix America,” is an admission that the corporate message we’ve heard for years that schools will fix the problems of the economy and society is false. Most of us knew this. Here is […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: crumbling school facilities, High-Stakes Tests, lowering class size, music in schools, Nick Hanauer and The Atlantic Article, overcrowded schools, President Obama, school facilities, socialization, special education, students and careers, teachers, teaching credentials, Technology in Schools, The Arts in Schools, the economy and public schools

Missing Socialization in Today’s Public Schools

October 28, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

How do democratic public schools address the socialization of students? How are children brought together to make a kinder world? Does anyone even ask that question today? This past weekend I read “My Pedagogic Creed” by John Dewey (a little light reading on a Sunday afternoon), and I was struck by how far our public […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Competion, elementary school, High School Public Schools, instruction, John Dewey, parents, recess, School Lunches, schools, Schools as Social Institutions, Segregation, Social Institutions, socialization, students, teachers, Technology

12 Reasons Why Digital Personalized Learning is Not Special Education

October 10, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

A recent article in Business Insider describes how Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg got their idea for digital personalized learning from special education. A light bulb lit, and they realized that students placed according to their academic level online is needed for every child—not just students with disabilities. They liked the way special education teachers […]

Filed Under: Featured, Special Education Tagged With: Bill Gates, charter schools, Cheating, Cyberbullying, Digital Personalized Instruction, high-stakes testing, Mark Zuckerberg, Ongoing Assessment, Online Charter Schools, Online Instruction, School Privatization, socialization, special education, Student Differences

The Devil is in the Details, Utah

September 9, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Some Utah parents are worried about afterschool Satan Clubs. I don’t blame them. However, and I’m no religious expert by any means, if there is a devil, I think it is always sneaking into town when and where you least expect. Utah, in my opinion, has some devil-like programs designed to eliminate public-schools. First, there’s […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Computers, disabilities, Online Preschool, preschool, public schools, Social Impact Bonds, socialization, special education, Utah, Waterford UPSTART

More Social-Emotional Learning Hype

August 15, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Helping children with their emotions is something teachers have done for years. Certainly, assisting children and teens with appropriate, caring behavior is an important task. And, yes, there are ways to help children feel good about who they are and what they can contribute to the world. Of course educators should address a child’s feelings […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Behavior, Children, Social Emotional Learning, socialization

What Digital Games Miss—Socialization

June 21, 2016 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Today, I approach the closet I have been dreading, for there, perched on the shelves are the games my family has played for years. These aren’t digital games, though we have not been opposed to some of those when alone. But these are games I can actually touch and hold in my arms. I can […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chess, communication skills, Digital vs. Board Games, organization, schools, socialization, video games

Student Socialization in Public Schools

September 2, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Socialization you could say is how a child interacts with their peers. There are many definitions, but in school, socialization mostly involves how children play and get along with each other. We think of recess when considering socialization. We wonder how much socialization children miss when they don’t get recess. Public schools can go a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Children, Cultural Trends, Friends, Home Schools, Humanism, occupations, parents, Peer Groups, public schools, Religion, socialization, special education, students, teachers

Mindfulness Training—Help or Cover-up in Education-Reform Affected Schools?

July 28, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

There’s mindfulness for teachers and mindfulness for students. There’s mindfulness in the UK and mindfulness in the USA. You can find groups that will train teachers and students about mindfulness around the world. But is mindfulness being used to push students and teachers to be robotic? Is it meant to cover up the problems in […]

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Unstructured play has been driven out of early childhood classrooms for years! Goals are to micromanage everything a child does. Few seem to connect play's importance to learning & mental health, or they don't care if schools fail. https://twitter.com/Cabal_Educator/status/1630938079170109440

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Let them play!

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Science of Reading camp never discusses the importance of picture books. How much time do children get to explore them? How often are they read to for enjoyment? This is worrisome. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/26/the-science-of-reading-and-the-rejection-of-picture-books/

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@BetsyDeVos So much research shows that 3rd gr retention is bad for students it's hard to believe you think this is fine. There are many alternatives. https://nancyebailey.com/2017/10/09/force-flunk-destroying-a-childs-love-of-reading-and-their-life/

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We "get to know where the money is being spent"? Great! So every private school receiving tax dollars will have to open their books and be subject to the same standards of financial transparency as public schools, right? Right?

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