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Who’s Behind America’s Superintendents and School Transformation?

February 24, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

The School Superintendents Association (AASA) recently met in San Diego. Superintendents from around the country gathered to discuss what they saw as important to school leadership and public education. The future of education was a prominent theme of the meeting, with the overall focus on one word, transformation. They saluted digital and futuristic learning, reflected […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Pay for Success, School Privatization, School Transformation, Social-emotional learning SEL, Social-Impact Bonds SIMs, Student Privacy, Superintendents, Teacher Recruitment, teachers, teaching, Technology, The Future of Education, The Personalization of Education

Online Therapy in Schools? Privacy and Quality Concerns

February 20, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Most of us are concerned when we hear of a credit card data breach in a store or company where we do business. Many parents are also troubled about academic and social-emotional behavioral online assessment data collected about their children in school. But what about your child surrendering their personal and sensitive information in an […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Online therapy, Online Therapy in schools, Privacy issues concerning children, School Counselors, School Nurses, School Psychologists, Student Privacy, student safety

The Headband Obsession With Student Concentration

January 27, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 20 Comments

Headbands created to collect information about student attending behavior are the latest trend. Adults monitor and gather information from students’ brains to see if they stay focused on schoolwork. Here’s the Vulcan Post that discusses Neeuro, from just one company jumping on the headband bandwagon. This falls into the social-emotional “good behavior” and “self-regulation” learning […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class size, concentration, focus, headband monitoring, On-task behavior, Public School, School Privatization, SLANT, student concentration, Student Privacy, teachers, Technology

IEPs for All Students? Hold On!

February 7, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

A discussion about IEPs for all students seems to be trending. In an interview with The Nation during the presidential campaign, Jane Sanders talked about IEPs and public schools. It was likely the most we heard about public education at that time. Here are her words. It’s interesting, because we’ve made progress with IEPs [Individualized […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bill Gates, Digital Learning, IEPs, Individualized Learning, Mark Zuckerberg, Marketing, Mastery Learning, Online Learning, Personalized Learning, small class sizes, special education, Special Education Charter Schools, Student Privacy, Teacherless Classrooms, teachers, Tech Disruption, The Need for Teachers

The Best Gift for Children: Saying NO to Summit Online Learning

December 22, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

During this holiday and Christmas season, salute the fine parents of Cheshire, Connecticut who said NO to Summit online learning! Theresa Commune said her 11-year-old son just wanted more attention from teachers than he was getting. “They need teachers to get them to love learning at this stage,” she said. Especially great is that parent […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chan Zuckerberg, charter schools, Cheshire Connecticut, Common Core, Online Charter Schools, Personalized Learning, self-directed instruction, Social Emotional Learning, Student Privacy, Summit Learning, teachers

It’s Like Invisible Drones Following Students in School

July 1, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Trustworthy Computing is the highest priority for all the work we are doing. We must lead the industry to a whole new level of Trustworthiness in computing. Bill Gates in an email sent to his employees, discussed in Wired January 17, 2002 __________ Happy 4th of July! This is a good time to think about […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Classroom Data Walls, Digital Learning, Freedom, Online Programs to Manage School Data, Student Privacy

Concerns about the New ESEA Reauthorization

November 28, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Arne Duncan and others are bragging that both political parties get along when it comes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization. It is one big happy family when it comes to education. There was bipartisan agreement over No Child Left Behind too, and look what a colossal disaster that was. Now, with […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Business Involvement, Common Core, early childhood education, ESEA Reauthorization, Federal Role, FERPA, Partnerships, special education, State and Local Role, Student Privacy, Title II Funds, Title one Portability

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Many have become weary & wary of ‘SoR’ term. A good time to revisit this piece @tultican details why the term has become problematic. 🙏🏼 to @NfiniteJustice & @roblevine82 for sharing.

https://tultican.com/2022/12/28/the-science-of-profits-and-propaganda/

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votegloriaj Rep. Gloria Johnson @votegloriaj ·
29 Mar

“If Republicans continue to have their way, we will eventually do no regulation. And we will be in violation of the Second Amendment as it is written. Somehow that never occurs to politicians.” https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/thoughts-and-prayers-are-not-enough/article_55aa7aca-cd1c-11ed-b22d-d37cf4ffce94.html

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jasonablin Jason Ablin @jasonablin ·
29 Mar

Why do I feel like I'm reading an article that should have been written in 1938.

Education Secretary Calls for End to Corporal Punishment https://www.edweek.org/leadership/education-secretary-calls-for-end-to-corporal-punishment/2023/03

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gwenblumberg Gwen Blumberg @gwenblumberg ·
28 Mar

Honoring identity, ditching logs, levels as *teacher* tools, independent reading, student CHOICE, and honoring multimodal texts… Yes to all! ⁦@KQED⁩ https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61287/beyond-reading-logs-and-lexile-levels-supporting-students-multifaceted-reading-lives

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nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
26 Mar

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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