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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

‘Screens in Schools Action Kit’ to Help Parents Push Back Against Edtech Overuse

February 21, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Parents and educators worry about how much time students spend facing digital devices. Here is a useful resource to help children live lives that aren’t dominated by screen use. Contact: Seth Evans, Chair, (seth@commercialfreechildhood.org) Screens in Schools Work Group, Children’s Screen Time Action Network Advocates Release ‘Screens in Schools Action Kit’ to Help Parents Push […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: children and technology, Children's Screen Time Action Network, Digital Instruction, Overuse of technology in and out of school, screens in school, Technology

The Science of Reading Plot to Replace Reading Teachers with Phonics on a Screen

February 5, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 34 Comments

Not only are school districts spending huge sums on laptops with little research to indicate students learn better on computers, they’re also pushing children to face screens to learn the most serious subject, how to read. They’re doing this alongside efforts by corporate reformers to kick teachers out of the classroom, and by promoting the idea […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amplify, Data Collection, iReady, iStation, phonics, Phonics on a screen, Reading Instruction, Technology

Common Core, Camouflaged in Testing and Technology

January 29, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Common Core State Standards (CCSS) might seem to have diminished, but the standards are still embedded in testing and technology and still hurting students. When the standards were first imposed on students, parents and teachers complained. Sandra Stotsky, now Professor Emeritus, was an outspoken critic of CCSSs. She had previously helped develop the Massachusetts standards, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amplify, CASEL, Common Core, Data Collection on Students, iReady, Technology

Problematic “Scientific Based” Phonics: The Flawed National Reading Panel

October 16, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 16 Comments

It’s odd and detrimental that the National Reading Panel is highlighted in reports as science, used to promote phonics and criticize how teachers teach reading. It has become so intense that teachers are being advised to drop certain reading methods to focus solely on “systematic, explicit phonics!” The NRP was discredited long ago. Why it’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, IDEA, Loss of School Librarians, National Reading Panel, NCLB, No Child Left Behind, NRP, phonics, Reading Instruction, School Librarians, school libraries, science readiing, Technology

Quit Using “Alignment” Referring to Children and Tests!

September 30, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Alignment refers to a car’s wheels pointing in the right direction, or an orthodontist correcting a child or adult’s dental occlusion. Alignment is rigid. It’s right or wrong. Yet alignment has been used for years to describe how students learn in school. Children are not machine parts that need adjustment. What if consideration was given […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: academic alignment to the test, alignment, alignment to standards, standardized testing, Technology

Is NCLB’s Reading First Making a Comeback?

August 28, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 16 Comments

Reading First was President George W. Bush’s signature reading program, the cornerstone of No Child Left Behind. With a $6 billion price tag (a billion per year for six years), it promised “scientific proof” it would have every child reading by third grade. States had to apply for federal grants. Reading First centered around phonics. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class size, iReady, No Child Left Behind, phonics, reading, Reading First, Technology

The Technology Cheating Problem Is Still a Problem

August 22, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

While many were appalled at the celebrity college entrance scandal, there’s another scandal that gets minimal attention. Students cheat with technology! Cheating has always been a problem in school but with technology it runs rampant. In the classroom, teachers curtail cheating by supervising students in person. They learn about students and become familiar with their […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cheating, Cheating with Technology, College, Connections Academy, contract cheating, High School, K12, Summit Online Learning, Technology, turitin, virtual learning

Teaching and Learning in the Age of the Technocrats

May 20, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

By Sheila Resseger, M.A. I wrote the following words almost exactly four years ago. Since then, many parents did choose to inform themselves, and refused to allow their children to participate in the PARCC/SBAC assessments; the problem with the underlying standards, however, was not addressed. And the situation we have today is even more concerning. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, ELA, PARCC/SBAC, Technology

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