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15 Ways to Help Teachers During Covid, Instead of Turning Them Into Scapegoats and Making Them Quit

January 9, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Teachers are continually being made into scapegoats over a virus not under their control. Here’s a list of classroom problems from the beginning of the pandemic. Here’s a checklist on how to quit scapegoating teachers and help them instead. Suggestions from teachers, parents, and students, especially teachers currently teaching, are welcome. 1. Doctors Since the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Covid, Doctors, generalizations, learning loss, masks, media bias, schools, social distancing, Students with Disabilities, teachers, vaccinations, ventilation, venture philanthropists, working parents

Guarded Hope and 7 Concerns for Public Education this New Year

January 4, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

We have a new President and a new education secretary and hope for the future of public education. Hope doesn’t come easy because schools face what appear to be insurmountable difficulties due to Covid-19. Also, wealthy individuals and groups who want school privatization are established in the system, mostly in dozens of anti-public school nonprofits, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: assessment, covid-19, School Infrastructure, Social Justice, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Shortage, the arts

Education Unity? Save Democratic Public Schools!

November 10, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris! How refreshing to hear a President speak of uniting the country and saving America’s democratic institutions. One of the largest institutions is the public school system, run by local school boards, supported by the states, with oversight and administration by the federal government. President Biden […]

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Caught in the Middle: Whatever Happened to the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act?

September 18, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

By Aaron Wright No child wants to feel like a failure. No educator wants to feel like they have failed a child. Most children in special education are identified as having a specific learning disability or language impairment. Yet nationally only 67% of children with disabilities will graduate from high school and almost one and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism, Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), Individual Educational Plan (IEP), Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), public schools, Special Education and FAPE, Students with Disabilities

35 Ways They Dumb Down America: Still, There’s Hope!

May 3, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum And they charged all the people A dollar and a half to see ’em Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘Till it’s gone They paved paradise And they put up a parking lot ~Joni Mitchell, Big […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Common Core, corporate school reform, New Leaders, public schools, Saving Public education, Saving Public Schools, School Buildings, School Privatization, school reform, School Vouchers, Separation of Church and State, Students with Disabilities, Teach for America

“Educational Freedom” is False Advertising!

March 27, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

It sounds so patriotic…Educational Freedom. But public education in traditional public schools is what is truly educational freedom. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other conservatives like former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and current Tennessee Governor Bill Lee are touting their idea of Educational Freedom and they repeatedly make comments implying that poor children will get […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: children of immigrants, Educational Savings Account, ELL Students, free tuition, Parochial Schools, poverty, private schools, Students with Disabilities, vouchers

Special Education Mess in Texas: Stonewalling to End Public Schools?

February 1, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Texans are still understandably upset about their children losing out on special education services. Texas education officials look like they are stonewalling to keep special education services from students. Here’s the most recent information on the Texas special education boondoggle. You have to hit the links to get the real picture, and even then it […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Data Mining, special education, SPEDx, Students with Disabilities, Texas Education Agency

Special Education: Vouchers and Betsy DeVos

November 28, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 25 Comments

What will future Education Secretary Betsy DeVos do with special education? Most voucher programs currently go to students with disabilities. My guess is that there will be increased support with the new Trump administration and DeVos. The following states have voucher programs for student with disabilities: Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, charter schools, gifted students, religious schools, Special Education Vouchers, Students with Disabilities

Using Student Journal Writing to Fight Bad School Reform

October 10, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Every student should have a journal including most students with disabilities and ELL students. Journal writing is one of the best teaching techniques to show students that their voice matters and that their schools are about who they are and what they do. It also teaches students many writing skills. It is a 180 degree […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: dyslexia, Journal Writing, Students with Disabilities

There are Many Roads and Destinations for Children with Disabilities

July 25, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Every child doesn’t have to arrive at the same destination. There are many endpoints and lots of highways. So why are parents and students directed to one score and one test to say who will be successful? The Atlantic is asking whether No Child Left Behind (NCLB) should be considered an achievement when it comes […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: public schools, Students with Disabilities, testing

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Not sure I could agree more...thanks @NancyEBailey1

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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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