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10 Years Later: The Continuing Intentional Unraveling of America’s Public Schools

August 27, 2023 By Nancy Bailey 46 Comments

School reform continues to privatize and destroy public schools. August marks ten years since I began blogging. Within that time I have written two books and co-authored a third with Diane Ravitch. I’m proud of all this writing but Losing America’s Schools: The Fight to Reclaim Public Education is the book title that especially stands […]

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Is Mississippi Shifting to Online Teacher Education with Reading Universe?

June 27, 2023 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Switching from face-to-face, in-person public education to computer screens is concerning. It’s happening in K12 and appears to be driving privatization with teacher education at the university level. The Science of Reading lends itself to this, but there’s little proof online instruction makes better students or teachers. So far, research supporting this is hard to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barksdale Reading Institute, ExcelinEd, First Book, Mississippi, Online Instruction, online teacher education, reading, Reading Rockets, Reading Universe, science of reading, teachers, WETA (PBS)

Who’s Behind PBS News Hour’s Gloomy Reporting About Student Learning?

April 16, 2023 By Nancy Bailey 37 Comments

Arne Duncan (Obama) and Margaret Spellings (G. W. Bush), noneducators and former education secretaries, recently appeared on PBS News Hour, Study shows parents overestimate their student’s academic progress to dash any hope parents might have that their children are doing well in school. Who’s behind such gloomy reporting? Here’s how PBS begins, and here’s the survey: […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amplify, charter schools, EdReports, Grades, Learning Gaps, learning heroes, opportunity gaps, parents, Parents and teachers, PBS News Hour, public schools, School Privatization, students, Study shows parents overestimate their student's academic progress, teachers

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: assessment, careers, counseling, curriculum, parents, Partners, reading, Saving Public Schools, staff, students, subjects, teachers, Technology, the arts, volunteering

One Educator’s Grateful Remembrance: A Teacher

November 19, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Most of us remember teachers we liked and those we did not, but sometimes even the teachers who seemed difficult later become the teachers we learned much from. Other times that’s not the case and a difficult teacher is remembered negatively. But fortunately, most teachers make democratic public schools work, and many children move on […]

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What I Believe Emily Hanford Misses About Reading

November 6, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 28 Comments

Emily Hanford has brought attention to reading, including several new podcasts, Sold a Story, claiming children have been harmed for years by reading instruction. She singles out programs she says failed. The stories about children are compelling. But she leaves out some history, and I don’t think she’s ever critical of any of the many […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Data Collection, IDEA, Online Instruction, Privacy Concerns, public school reform, Reading First, Resource Class, retention, teachers

The Covid-19 “Leave No Crisis Wasted” School Plan that Failed…for Now

October 26, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Learning loss complaints and teacher blame for school closures could be because the Covid-19 disaster plan to reimagine schools failed. Technology replacing public schools and teachers appeared to be the “leave no crisis wasted” plan, but it backfired. After Hurricane Katrina, the late privatization guru Milton Friedman coordinated replacing public schools in New Orleans with […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: covid-19, disaster capitalism, NAEP scores, School Closures During Covid-19, schools, teachers, Technology, Virtual Learning and Covid

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

A Great Profession: Consider Teachers’ Needs

November 28, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

During this troubling time when we should be helping each other through one of the roughest patches we’ve faced as a nation, teachers have become scapegoats, blamed for everything involving social change and Covid-19. Teachers tried to protect themselves and their families during the pandemic and worried about protecting their students and now they’re blamed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: covid-19, school closures, Teacher Appreciation, teachers, the pandemic

How States Are Privatizing Public Schools to Tech Companies During the Delta Variant Uptick

September 4, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

It’s unconscionable that states and local school districts across the country have eliminated the remote learning option where children connect with their classroom teachers online. Instead, they’re opening virtual schools, outsourcing to for-profit companies, using the pandemic to privatize public schooling. Parents fearful of the Delta variant and in-person schooling, hearing dire warnings about sick […]

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Pictures are paramount for children learning to read. Lately, they're getting a bad rap. Here's an outline of what children learn through picture books they like.

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Did Gov. Youngkin drive away teachers to provide profits?

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Pictures are paramount for children learning to read. Lately, they're getting a bad rap. Here's an outline of what children learn through picture books they like. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/09/27/how-picture-books-help-teach-comprehension-and-phonics/

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See, you give schools with lots of kids in poverty a little extra money, and soon they say they need more for healthy buildings and well-paid teachers and small class sizes and all the "extras" affluent schools get. I mean, where does it end?

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What is it with rich dudes and their obsession with controlling teachers? @joyceforeman16 @Lori4DISD @CoalitionEquity @brett_shipp @DianeBirdwell @ed_hog @valeriestrauss @NancyEBailey1 @tultican @deutsch29blog

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