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Without Professional Teachers, Special Education is a Joke!

July 12, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

How do school districts bypass special education services and get away with it? One way, is to make it look like special education services are being restored, but due to a teacher shortage, the district must rely on teachers without classroom experience. Special education, all teaching really, but special education, especially, demands teaching qualifications. To […]

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How to Find Out if A Teacher is Qualified

April 1, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Spring is here and parents may already be thinking about next year and what teachers their students will get. School districts used to be vigilant about ensuring teachers had the right state credentials. That may no longer be the case. Now there are many online programs that are not accredited, and fast-track teacher preparation programs […]

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Who’s Teaching Your Student? Questions to Help You Find Out

July 26, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

It’s hard to believe that it’s time for school to start again. As parents and children visit schools with anticipation, parents might want to ask their student’s teachers about their instructional backgrounds. School districts used to be fairly vigilant about ensuring teachers had the right state credentials. That may no longer be the case. But […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alternative Certification, Common Core, high-stakes testing, State Certification, Teacher Backgrounds, Teacher Certification, Teacher Credentials, Teacher Qualification

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tultican Thomas Ultican @tultican ·
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Nancy Bailey looks at how the inheritors of the education hit piece, A Nation at Risk, continue to depend on forcing toddlers to grow faster, somehow. #inappropriate

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First, children are pushed to read before they're ready, and then they fail third grade because they need more time to learn to be better readers. How does this create better readers? Children will hate reading.

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Research is clear: Third-grade retention is an unnecessary, ineffective practice that demoralizes children. @SecCardona should speak to this terrible practice.

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The creation of the American Climate Corps will mobilize young people who care so deeply about the future of our planet and who are ready to take on the existential threat of climate change. It's a good start. Let’s go forward together.

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Research is clear: Third-grade retention is an unnecessary, ineffective practice that demoralizes children. @SecCardona should speak to this terrible practice. https://www.wsfa.com/2023/09/14/12k-third-graders-risk-being-held-back-under-alabama-literacy-act-superintendent-warns/?fbclid=IwAR1CHkRIZN1CmXlVuA_uTS6zU8IQOGO0_FkQPuAHvW_tKX2Ose25DLeuRdQ

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