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Destroying Special Education through Common Core Testing and Funding Cuts

August 25, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

How are things going with these special education cuts after time has gone by? I’m looking at what’s happening currently. Let me know of any program cuts in your school district and I will write about them. This was originally posted August 25, 2015. ___________________________________________ Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chicago, College and Career, Common Core, Florida, Funding Cuts, Hawaii, high-stakes testing, Individualization, Kansas, Minneapolis, New Hampshire, PARCC, Smarter Balanced Assessment, special education, Special Education Funding Cuts, states, Tennessee, Vermont

States Lacking Mental Health Services for Kids–And Some Glimmers of Hope

June 29, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Marcie Lipsitt is a special education activist for children in Michigan, and she sent out a report about the serious loss of services there for children with mental health problems. It’s entitled, “In crisis, mentally ill children forced to wait days or weeks for hospital beds,” and includes the plight of a parent who has […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Children, Hawthorn Center, mental health, Mental Health Services, Michigan, public schools, states

Shunning Gifted Students in America—Isn’t it Time to Pay Attention?

January 2, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 31 Comments

All children are gifted one way or another. But because labels are still used to identify children, when I say gifted you immediately know I am referring to children who have high IQs. They intellectually function ahead of their peers on the bell-shaped curve—sometimes far ahead. They also might have learning disabilities along with being […]

Filed Under: Common Core Tagged With: Accelerated Placement (AP), class size, Common Core, Council for Exceptional Children, credentialed gifted teachers, cut-off point, disadvantaged students, education policy, education reform, gifted associations, gifted programming, gifted students, high-stakes testing, Internation Baccalaureate (IB), IQ, lack of services, regular class, self-contained classes, states, twice exceptional

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