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U.S. DOE Continues to Force Test Failure on Children with Special Needs and ELL Students

July 1, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

According to information given to me by Deborah Abramson Brooks Wsm, the U.S. Dept. of Education is insisting that the New York Board of Education continue to force all students with disabilities, except for those with the severest disabilities, to take the tests matching their chronological age, not their developmental age, ignoring their cognitive disabilities. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, dyslexia, New York, special education, testing, U.S. Department of Education

Tricky Business in New York Special Ed. and Maybe Where You Live

November 9, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

By Monica Kennedy Kounter I am a parent of a special needs child, a certified lay advocate, and I have a Master’s of Science in Early Childhood Education. I have been fighting Common Core on the behalf of students with disabilities in New York State for a year now. I am a relative newcomer to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Classification, Common Core, disabilities, IDEA, Identification, New York, special education, Teacher Evaluations, testing

New Kindergarten Testing: Sorry, It’s Not Really Play

October 9, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Early childhood officials at the U.S. Department of Education, some who should know better, have apparently concluded (as described in this Ed Week article), that they were making little kids do things too over-the-top to be early childhood ready—like giving four-year-olds basic sight word spelling tests and getting them to count to 20 in their […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: assessment, kindergarten, play, testing

Testing Kindergartners and a Rise in Disabilities: Is There A Connection?

August 19, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

Why are children, no matter rich or poor, showing up with more disabilities—especially ADHD? Here is USA Today telling about the report in Pediatrics. Could it be because they are being pushed harder than ever before, with less, if any, recess or breaks? Perhaps they’re tired of school, or all that Common Core stuff is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Florida, Kindergartners, reading, testing

The Choices Parents Really Want for Their Students with Special Needs

July 19, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Today I want to talk about the choices, I believe, parents want for their students with exceptionalities or students in general. “Choice,” today, in the eyes of the ed. reformers means having a lot of charter schools, and I am particularly speaking about those designed to make a profit. The owners want to stand on […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), Goals, Planning, special education, testing

The ASVAB: Are You Handing Your Student’s Information Over to the Military With Out Knowing?

July 16, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery Career Exploration Program, otherwise known as the ASVAB-CEP, or ASVAB, is an admissions and placement test to determine student career interests, strengths, and qualification for the military. The ASVAB is not new. It has been around since 1968. But there are new privacy concerns about the way the test […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ASVAB, Career Assessment, Personal Information, testing, war

Arne Duncan—This is What’s “Pretty Scary” to Parents, Teachers and Students

April 2, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Posted on November 18, 2013 and updated for April 2, 2014 by Nancy Bailey Last November I wrote about why parents worried about Arne Duncan, who stands in support of Common Core State Standards. It was after he said, in reference to the standards,  “It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Common Core, Individual Educational Plans, school fears, testing

Misguided Education Reform

December 31, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

A nice thing that happened to me this past year was the publishing, back in July, of my book, Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students, by R & L Books (Rowman & Littlefield). It covers many of the same topics you will find on my blog. I discuss special education which might be […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: charter school buildings, Common Core, discipline, early childhood education, emotional disabilities, gifted, IDEA, learning disabilities, libraries, loss of the arts, Misguided Education Reform, PL 94-142, poor/unsafe school facilities, re-authorizations, reading, Reading First, special education, testing, Zero Tolerance

Great Public Schools Focus on Student Interests

December 3, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

I wonder how many parents out there remember when anyone at their child’s school asked these questions: What are your child’s interests? Does your student have any hobbies? How do they like to spend their free time?      I am reading an interesting book called Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, […]

Filed Under: Common Core Tagged With: Boy Scouts, Common Core, curriculum, Girl Scouts, student interests, student strengths, testing

Real Student Zombies by Next Halloween?

October 31, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

According to Wikipedia, the term “Zombie” figuratively applied describes “a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli.” Are students being turned into zombies in our schools? Think about this. The reformers want “rigor”—short for rigor mortis. Children are being over-tested.They’ve lost their recess. Children, who may […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: ADHD, freedom of expression, recess, rigor, rigor mortis, student data, Student Zombies, students with disabilites, testing, the arts

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"The current national privacy bill in Congress (which might-in other respects-actually be good) won’t do anything for most students either, as it excludes public institutions such as public schools & vendors that handle student data" #privacy #surveillance https://www.wired.com/story/student-monitoring-software-privacy-in-schools/

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"I wonder why all the folks yelling about 'learning loss' haven't made a peep about the teaching & learning time lost every year to standardized testing & test prep." ~Dr Robinson @mrobmused .@nancyflanagan .@NancyEBailey1 https://www.mitchellrobinsonforstateschoolboard.org/

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I understand not wanting to, being able to, or feeling it is a burden to buy your children school supplies.

I get it. Don’t blame the teachers though. They don’t want you to have to buy them and they sure as hell shouldn’t have to buy them all either.

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