• Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact

Nancy Bailey's Education Website

Revive, Rally and Recover Public Schools

  • Activism
    • Anti-Charter Schools
    • Anti-Common Core State Standards
    • Anti-Corporatization of Schools
    • Anti-High-Stakes Testing
    • State Action Groups
    • School Buildings
  • School Curriculum
    • General Education
    • Educators
    • Parents
    • Reading
    • Writing
    • Math
    • Science
    • Social Studies
    • The Arts
    • Technology
    • Behavior
    • Diversity
    • English Language Learners
    • Special Education
      • Autism
      • Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
      • Learning Disabilities
      • Developmental Disabilities
      • Gifted
      • Other
    • Early Childhood Education
    • Elementary School
    • Middle School
    • High School
    • Student Careers
  • Other Countries
    • England
    • Finland
    • Australia
    • New Zealand
    • Canada

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

Joyful or Punishing Teachers: Which is it American Media?

January 12, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

What do Americans want their teachers to be like? What do they really want out of their schools? Within a space of a week I saw the media send out very mixed messages. We know Americans are meant to see these reports as examples of what teachers should be like. But which is it—A or […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Joy in Teaching, Media Messages about Teaching, public schools, Strictness, teaching, Transformative Teaching

My Dream About EDUCATION and the Democratic (or Republican) Debate

October 14, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

I fell asleep last night during the democratic debate and I dreamt this is how it all unfolded. The scary part was there were no answers to the questions  about education when I woke up. In my dream Anderson Cooper said: America’s democratic public schools, how we treat and instruct the next generation, our children, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Democratic Debate and Education, early childhood education, ELL, Higher Education, privatization, special education, teaching, the arts, Virtual Education

Should School Leaders have Professional Teaching Experience?

July 9, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 16 Comments

Leading means inspiring, not commanding. Leading means loving the people you lead so they will give you their hearts as well as their minds. It means communicating a vision of where you can go together and inviting them to join. Major General John Stanford, Superintendent of Seattle Schools, 1995–1998 A school leader who has never […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Major General John Stanford, School leadership, teaching

Students and Bears, Oh My! How Common Core Discards the Importance of Reasoning and Intuition

June 20, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

This post is about reasoning and intuition with students and bears, and what we have lost by focusing on Common Core State Standards and not the students themselves. There are interesting similarities. Let me start with bears. I just returned from visiting Glacier National Park. Glacier is full of bears—both grizzlies and black bears. So, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bears, Behavior, Common Core, Intuition, learning, Reasoning, special education, teaching

The End of the Road for PUBLIC SCHOOL Teachers? I Don’t Think So!

March 28, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Is it the end of the road for public school teachers? It seems like a bad sign when a respected teacher wins an award for teaching, and during a conversation afterwards on CNN, tells young people to go into teaching only if they enter the private sector. Last week Main teacher Nancie Atwell became the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Collaboration, Common Core, Guidance Counselors, high-stakes testing, Librarians, PTA, Public Relations, special education, Student Teachers, support staff, teaching, the arts, Value Added Assessment

How Common Core Disparages Teachers and Drives Critical Moral Thinking out of the Adolescent English/Language Arts Classroom

December 5, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Why are schools and teachers permitting Common Core to take over what they have always done well, teaching middle and high school English/Language Arts (ELA) classes? And how destructive is it to students who don’t learn to foster ideas about what they think about a novel, instead, merely picking out technical points of the text? […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Engish/Language Arts, teaching

Happy Father’s Day to Dads Who Speak Out: Keep Up the Great Work!

June 15, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

As a teacher, I once arrived at my classroom early in the morning to find a father of one of my students quite upset. I shakily ushered him into the classroom where he proceeded to lecture me about what his son had missed out on in school, up to that point, and what he believed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Communication, Happy Father's Day! Individual Educational Plans, Involvement, learning disabilities, Planning, public schools, special education, teaching

“Coaching” Applied to Teaching–Why I Don’t Like It

November 21, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

“Teaching Coaches” have become commonplace as public school curriculum is converted to Common Core. The plan is to enlist teachers, lots of them, to coach other teachers how to instruct using Common Core. In most places these teaching coaches get a stipend of $5-6,000 to help transform a school district into a Common Core wonderland. […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Teaching Tagged With: A Nation at Risk, coaching, Common Core, Sandia Report, teaching

« Previous Page

front cover

An education glossary with an attitude.

Buy Now

front cover

Do we really want an America where we no longer own our public schools?

Buy Now

front cover

This book says “no” to the reforms that fail, and challenges Americans to address the real student needs that will fix public schools and make America strong.

Buy Now

Follow me!

Enter your email address to subscribe to my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Connect With Me!

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Archives

Tag Cloud

Arne Duncan Autism Betsy DeVos Bill Gates charter schools Children class size Common Core Common Core covid-19 dyslexia early childhood education Education Secretary Betsy DeVos high-stakes testing kindergarten learning disabilities Online Learning parents Personalized Learning phonics preschool private schools privatization public education public schools reading recess retention School Choice school libraries School Privatization school reform science of reading Social Emotional Learning special education students Students with Disabilities Teacher Preparation teachers Teach for America teaching Technology testing the arts vouchers

Copyright © 2025 Nancy E. Bailey · Website powered by Standing Pine Media.