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Saving Public Schools for ALL Our Children in the New Year

January 1, 2023 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

As we approach 2023, let’s make this the year to unite for the common good to reestablish and promote public education for all our children. A public school system relies on a country that values education for all its children no matter family religious beliefs, the color of one’s skin, gender identity, sexual orientation, or […]

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14 Reasons Why It Might STILL Be Dangerous to Open School Buildings

August 24, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

For parents and educators, many concerns still surround the virus and sending children back into school buildings. 1. It Seems Like The Virus Should Be Over—It’s Not!  This summer looked like the end of the pandemic was in sight, especially if vaccinated. But now the Delta variant swirls around children, teachers, and staff inside schools. […]

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Betsy DeVos’s Education Freedom Plan for Covid-19: My Way or the Highway!

July 11, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

Take the highway! For four years, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has worked to destroy democratic public schools and the teaching profession while touting her Education Freedom plan, vouchers. But Americans should be asking what she really means by educational freedom after this past week. The freedom to determine what safe schooling means in your community […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, covid-19, education choice, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, President Trump, School Reopening, students, teachers

24 WRONG Reasons to Reopen Schools

July 7, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

The reasons for returning to school might sound good, but those reasons always bump up against the enemy, the coronavirus. Here are concerns that deserve attention, but they are the wrong reasons for schools to reopen. 1. President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos say SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL! Neither the President or […]

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Happy 4th! Celebrating America’s Teachers, NOT Chromebooks!

July 4, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Americans miss their public schools, their universities, and their teachers. On this 4th of July we owe much to the frontline hospital healthcare workers who save lives. Also give thanks for America’s teachers. They stand by their students and are trying to navigate uncertainty concerning Covid-19. Back in March, many believed the virus would be a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 4th of July, chromebooks, covid-19, Online Learning, School Privatization, students, teachers, virtual learning

Ask Dads How to Reimagine Public Schools!

June 21, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

I would like much better feedback to parents of what their kids need to work on. ~Stuart Jenner, Parent Advocate Dads can be powerful workers at saving public education. Many dads are teachers and parents and they go to bat for their children more than on the baseball field. They recognize that education is important […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Dads, Dads Reimagining Schools, Father's Day, School changes, students

Love OUR Public Schools: Children & Their Teachers!

February 14, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

On this one-year anniversary of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, I am remembering the students and their parents and teachers, especially those who lost loved ones. MSD represents a great public school. Beyond the sadness of that day, we saw what a good public school can be. We saw loving, supportive parents. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School, Public School Safety, public schools, Saving Public Schools, School Choice, students, teachers

Social-Emotional Learning and Teachers Students Love? Teachers in Los Angeles!

January 22, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Social-emotional learning (SEL) in schools makes many parents and teachers nervous. We worry there’s an ulterior motive to collect behavioral data on how children think and act, and that the ultimate goal is to privatize public schools and track students. Talk about transforming our public schools away from cognitive learning to SEL is everywhere! Those […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aspen Institute, behavioral data collection, class size, counselors, L.A. Teachers Strike, Librarians, lowering class size, nurses, Social Emotional Learning, students, teachers, tracking

Teachers, Hold On to Your Desks! YOU Make Instruction Work!

August 17, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

Teachers, hold on to your desks! Your classroom footprint matters! It’s always a thrill this time of year to see teachers on social media showing off their classrooms. Not only are teachers proud of their workspace, they understand that the ambience in those rooms is critical to how students feel about learning and school. Teachers often dip […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Desks, Personalized Learning, Self Instruction, students, teacher desks, Teacherless Classrooms, teachers, Technology

101 (And MORE) Wishes For Students in 2018—In 5 Words or Less

January 1, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 28 Comments

Provide children plenty of recess. Pay attention to child development. Cherish play for children. Encourage teens to socialize. Lower class sizes. Bring back the arts. Provide all students art instruction. Give students credentialed art teachers. Let children dance. Sing-along with students. Teach students to play instruments. Display student art in schools. Bring back school plays. […]

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dianeravitch Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈 @dianeravitch ·
17 Jan

A must-read. School choice started as a means of resisting the Brown decision and racial desegregation. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/01/14/the-dark-history-of-school-choice/

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vfleischfresser Vaughan Fleischfresser @vfleischfresser ·
25 Jan

The cutting of music has to stop. The reduction of funding has to stop. The devaluing of music has to stop. The idea that it’s an ‘extra’ has to stop. The idea that it’s not academic has to stop. The idea that it’s not essential to education has to stop. It all has to stop. Now.

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tygersongbird TygerSongbird 💜 🂡 ♠️🏹 @tygersongbird ·
26 Jan

Most boardroom meetings don't even have 35 people in them. Yet, Republicans want teachers to teach over 50 kids. That is insane. Most days in class, I didn't have enough desks or space for those desks. So, how can we put more kids in these classes? There will be no walking space. https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1617516564432961537

The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller

😳WATCH: “Class size limits could soon be a thing of the past in Tennessee.”

As Republicans steer💰from underfunded public schools to private
ones in a teacher shortage, senator @lundbergjon (R) wants to make it worse. (TEACHER: “A catastrophe.”)

FULL: https://www.wymt.com/2023/01/21/more-kids-classrooms-its-possible-tennessee/

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joshcowenmsu Josh Cowen @joshcowenmsu ·
25 Jan

Having failed at drumming up even artificial support for DeVos #schoolvouchers in #miched, it seems bored Right-wing PACs are organizing around—wait for it—keeping 3rd grade retention in place #mileg 🤦‍♂️

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plthomasedd Paul Thomas @plthomasedd ·
25 Jan

The #scienceofreading movement is yet another anti-teacher movement in education reform. Just like TFA, charter schools, and the VAM-era of Michelle Rhee. Bashing veteran teachers and teacher educators and coaxing new teachers with false blame and false narratives

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