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Do Americans Hate Teachers, Or are they Duped by Teach for America?

September 25, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

With more than $75 million coming in from government at last count and another $220 million from the philanthropic community, we should be seeing more evidence of long-term student gains and far more alumni continuing their impassioned work in the classroom. Patricia Schaefer, NPQ, September 11, 2015 Do Americans understand that by contributing to a […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Career Teachers, Privatization of Public Schools, public schools, Teach for America Donors, Teacher Preparation

The Dangers of Eliminating Teacher Preparation

June 25, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

Wisconsin is thinking about letting anyone teach. No degree will be required to enter the classroom and work with students. Isn’t it bizarre to encourage young people to go to college but claim their teachers don’t need a college degree? Surely this is quackery. But I thought it would be a good time to do […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: assessment, Bibliotherapy, child development, Child Psychology, Classroom Management, counseling, dyslexia, Educational Theory, ELL Teachers, learning disabilities, Librarians, math, Other Subjects, Special Areas, special education, Speech and Language, Teacher Preparation, Technology, the arts

More on Memphis School Cuts and the Broad and Gates Foundations

April 14, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

The Blues City is earning its name when it comes to public schools. Both the Broad and Gates Foundations have seen to it. The other day I posted about cuts to Memphis (Shelby County Schools). I was quickly reminded, rightly so, that these were proposed cuts—like maybe there would be some kind of rollback in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Achievement School District, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Broad Foundation, charter schools, iZone Schools, Memphis, Relay Graduate School of Education, Rocketship, School Privatization, Shelby County Schools, special education, Teach for America, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Preparation, teachers

Transforming Teacher Preparation—Gates Style

November 20, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have a quote on their website that says “Nobody knows teaching like teachers.” If they believe that, why don’t they let teachers teach the way they know best? Or, why don’t they ask them what they need to teach better? Instead, Mr. and Mrs. Gates are going to now […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, charter schools, Common Core, Data-Driven Teaching, Drill-and-Kill Programs, high-stakes testing, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Preparation, Teacher Residencies, Teacher Transformation Programs, teachers

Professional Teachers—Click, Click! Poof! You’re Gone!

November 11, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

The attack on teacher education is fast and furious. Privatizing America’s public schools means getting rid of career teachers who support instruction geared to a child’s needs. A way to purge the country of real teachers is to extinguish their teacher education programs and make teaching look like a regimented practice that any drill sergeant […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: College of Education, Common Core, Deans for Impact, Relay Graduate School of Education, Teach for America, Teacher Preparation, Teaching Fellows, TeachStrong, The New Teacher Project

Purging U. S. Education History: Ignoring Past Mistakes and Successes

September 24, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou They are doing strange things to Colleges of Education in this country, and one of the weirdest is dropping education history courses from required teacher preparation.  According to Education Week there is a decline in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brown v. Board of Education, Early Childhood History, Special Education History, Teacher Preparation, Tolerance, U. S. History of Education

How to Size-Up an Ed. Reformer in Five Minutes–TN Example

December 19, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Due to troubling school reforms like Common Core, it is important to study those who are running schools very carefully. Whenever anyone new is placed in a position of power, we must figure out what they will do to improve public schools and be good stewards of children. This isn’t always easy, because the language […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Leaders, reform, Teach for America, Teacher Preparation

University Teacher Education Takeover in Memphis

November 25, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

What Relay is doing largely breaks the mold. Its students are full-time elementary and middle-school teachers, almost all of them fresh out of college, almost none of them with a traditional teaching degree.  June Kronholz, Education Next At the University of Memphis there are professors disturbed about a rather secret plan, one that college officials […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Relay Graduate School of Education, Teacher Preparation, The New Teacher Project, University of Memphis

Teacher Preparation: Which Way is the Best?

November 22, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Here are some questions I would like to explore today with the help of teachers and parents and anyone with a vested interest in public education. Should teachers be prepared professionally in accredited colleges and universities? Or, does a fast-track training program that places graduate students and career changers, from various majors and possibly for-profit […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Teacher Preparation

Important Education Research Repeatedly Ignored

October 5, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Have you noticed we are bombarded by articles and reports about what is right and wrong in education by think tanks and non-educators? In fact, I have heard a variety of education reformers claiming there is little education research. They are wrong. There are many serious studies that these same people continue to ignore. Not […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Children and Play, class size, Education Research, Learning Problems Due to Elevated Lead Levels, retention, school libraries, Teacher Preparation, Teens Need Sleep

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