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Hillary Clinton, Zip Codes, and School Equality

April 17, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

The point often made during debates by Sec. Hillary Clinton is that children should not get a poor education based on their zip code. Most of us would agree about poverty and its harmful effects on children in school. But the zip code message was co-opted a long time ago by those who want to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Counseling Services, Detroit, discipline, Hillary Clinton, libraries, Online Instruction, Over-Testing, Poor Schools, poverty, private schools, Punishing Schools, recess, Rich Schools, Rundown School Facilities, School Nurses, Strictness, teachers, the arts, Wealthy Schools, Whole Curriculum, Zip Codes

Joyful or Punishing Teachers: Which is it American Media?

January 12, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

What do Americans want their teachers to be like? What do they really want out of their schools? Within a space of a week I saw the media send out very mixed messages. We know Americans are meant to see these reports as examples of what teachers should be like. But which is it—A or […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Joy in Teaching, Media Messages about Teaching, public schools, Strictness, teaching, Transformative Teaching

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