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Tutors Replacing Teachers: A Failed Privatization Plot Returns

March 7, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

The pandemic showed that for students to get quality instruction, especially poor children of color, America must invest in real teachers, smaller class sizes, and better working conditions, including improved school facilities. So why is the focus on tutors? “Accelerated high-dosage” tutoring. We have been here before. With No Child Left Behind, tutoring didn’t work […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: School Privatization, Teacher Recruitment, the need for qualified teachers, Tutors

Hire, Don’t Fire, Teachers! They’re the Educational Superheroes to Help Students Through this Crisis!

May 21, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Once upon a time, this country waited for Superman to save its schools. Teachers are today’s Superheroes. They face this crisis with strength and determination. The elite can write their blueprints. It’s the teachers who get the job done. The country should be hiring, not firing, its teachers. The Learning Policy Institute reports grim statistics about […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class size, cyber schools, education, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Student Teachers, teacher job loss, Teacher Recruitment, teachers, Technology, universities

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

5 Reasons Why the Teacher Shortage Concern is A Hoax!

September 13, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

No doubt, many children aren’t getting the general or special education teachers they deserve, especially in poor schools. There probably is a real teacher shortage. However, school reformers have been squawking about a teacher shortage for years. If policymakers cared, they would have put programs into place to address this shortage. They would have sought […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AFT, Betsy DeVos, Betsy DeVos and the Teacher Shortage, Career Teachers, Donald Trump, NEA, Reasons for a teacher shortage, Teach for American, Teacher Burnout, TEacher Morale, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Shortage, Technology, The Media and Teacher Morale, The War on Teachers

Gambling on Fast-Track Teachers in Nevada and Beyond and Personalized Learning

January 27, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Nevada school officials claim they can’t find 1,000 teachers to fill their classrooms. Education Week is claiming this isn’t much different than what’s found in the rest of the country. In the middle of it all you will think about Personalized Learning. Education Week won’t let you forget it. If you don’t have a need […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Competency-Based Learning, Computers, Las Vegas, Mastery Learning, Nevada, Online Instruction, Personalized Learning, Proficiency-Based Learning, Standards-Based Learning, Teacher Recruitment, teaching, Technology

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@susanoha @NancyEBailey1 "Sell What We Do": The Manufactured Crisis to Hide the Story Being Sold https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/01/30/sell-what-we-do-the-manufactured-crisis-to-hide-the-story-being-sold/

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Nancy Bailey: Reading Disabilities: Focus on Public Schools NOT School Choice!

“It’s unfair to say public school teachers fail to teach reading, while charter schools show substandard results. This creates a double standard.” @NancyEBailey1

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The focus should be on lifting traditional public schools & reading programs for many students who attend those schools rather than on unproven private and charter schools. Fix IDEA by increasing options. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/01/29/reading-disabilities-focus-on-public-schools-not-school-choice/

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arizona_sos Save Our Schools AZ @arizona_sos ·
28 Jan

Special interests call ESA vouchers “scholarships” because private schools select their students. It’s not “school choice,” it’s the school’s choice 😡#AZVoucherWatch #VouchersHurt #FundOurSchools

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danwuori Dan Wuori @danwuori ·
29 Jan

On-demand standardized testing has no place in kindergarten. There are far more appropriate and meaningful methods of assessing young children. https://twitter.com/reimagschool/status/1619665302450753536

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My wife's Kindergarten students felt very stressed and were crying when they had to take a standardized test. When she reported this to administrators their solution was "test them until they cry, and then stop." #testthemtiltheycry #resisttesting

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