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Where’s the Biden Administration on School Problems Facing Students, Teachers, and Parents?

May 16, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

The pandemic showed us that public schools are critical. Understandably, Covid-19 has been front and center. But the Biden administration glosses over or is silent on critical school issues. Sometimes these topics are front and center not in a good way in State legislatures or ignored altogether. Frustrated parents will seek alternatives, and there’s a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, class size, Common Core, curriculum, early childhood education, Health Care, K-12 Alignment to the Workforce, public schools, reading, school boards and partnerships, School Buildings, school safety, Social Justice, special education, standardized testing, support staff, teachers, Technology, the arts, vouchers

Guarded Hope and 7 Concerns for Public Education this New Year

January 4, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

We have a new President and a new education secretary and hope for the future of public education. Hope doesn’t come easy because schools face what appear to be insurmountable difficulties due to Covid-19. Also, wealthy individuals and groups who want school privatization are established in the system, mostly in dozens of anti-public school nonprofits, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: assessment, covid-19, School Infrastructure, Social Justice, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Shortage, the arts

How Has School Privatization Contributed to Mental Illness in Students Before and During Covid-19?

December 7, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Mental illness in children existed before Covid-19. How many students are struggling with it during the pandemic? How did school privatization contribute to this phenomenon? Before Covid-19 A 2018 survey conducted by the National Association of Elementary School Principals noted that their top concern is the rising numbers of students with emotional problems and mental health […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anxiety, children and teens, covid-19, depression, in-person school, mental health, Mental Illness, oppositional defiance disorder, public schools, Remote learning, school, School Privatization, special education, the arts

Sights and Sounds of the Season and The Importance of the Arts in Public Schools

December 26, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

This is a good time to think about the arts. The visuals and sounds of the holidays, art, music, and drama, surround us. It’s a reminder that children need access to learning about the arts in public schools. The arts help children learn in academic areas. They keep children interested in school. The arts alone […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: art and music, Art Instruction, art teachers, Public schools and the arts, the arts

It’s Time to Erase Harmful, Recycled Education Policy!

October 4, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Serious education issues in public schools are recycled because the ulterior motive of some is to end public education. Research is repeatedly ignored. Why are school administrators clueless? How is it that legislators repeatedly recreate policy we know is harmful for students? Each heading contains a link to proof. End Retention. Research is clear that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 3rd Grade Retention, Alternative Strategies to Retention, high-stakes testing, Homework/busywork, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, kindergarten, Kindergarten is the New First Grade, libraries and librarians, nonstop online testing, online behavioral data, retention, teacher qualifications, the arts

Gifted and IDEA: Charter Schools Won’t Solve the Gifted Debate

September 1, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

Even though gifted is listed as a special education category, Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) never adequately addressed it. Intellectually advanced students are complex, not always easy to understand. They need and deserve school support. Much debate surrounds gifted education. But charter schools will not be a sufficient answer to concerns. Some gifted students are […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 2e, charter schools, disabilities and giftedness, gifted, gifted and talented, High Tech High, Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the arts, Twice Exceptional Students

A Student’s Mental Health Could Depend on Putting the Arts Back into the Public School Curriculum

September 21, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Safety commissions, school districts, PTAs, and other groups and individuals have discussed school safety. One smart move would be to ensure that every school has a legitimate arts program including visual arts, music, drama, and dance. Students who struggle with mental health problems might benefit from the arts. Every child should have access. Students should […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art, Dance, Drama, mental health, music, privatization, Public School Privatization, Public School Privatization of the Arts, public schools, Public schools and mental health, Public schools and the arts, school safety, the arts

My Blogging Anniversary: How Has School Reform Changed in Five Years?

August 21, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

I recently passed the five-year anniversary of when I started writing my blog. What has changed? In this post, I analyze some of the issues I’ve written about over the years. Then, I thank you for your support. Change or lack of change in education can seem dark and foreboding, but there’s a great deal […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 5th year anniversary, charter schoos, class size, Common Core, data, early childhood education, reading, recess, retention, Social Emotional Learning, special education, standardized testing, Technology, the arts, vouchers

Worries about Tech and the Chan/Zuckerberg $30 Million Support of “Reach Every Reader”

March 8, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Reading is essential for learning, yet students across the U.S. are completing elementary school with inadequate reading abilities. So begins the announcement in The Harvard Gazette telling us about the new $30 million grant Chan/Zuckerberg will hand over to Harvard’s School of Education and MIT’s Integrative Learning Initiative (MITili). Learning to read, all of us […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: $30 Million Grant to Harvard and MITili, Brick-and-Mortar Schools, class size, Dr. Priscilla Chan, early reading, free reading, Harvard School of Education, Librarians, Mark Zuckerberg, MITili, phonics, phonics vs. whole language, public school teachers, public schools, reading, recess, school libraries, School Privatization, special education, Technology, the arts, whole language

High School College: High School Hell!

November 18, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Freshmen are told on one hand not to worry about college, then given an early version of a college entrance exam three weeks into their first year of high school. ~Chicago Tribune Nov.13, 2017 Like kindergartners pushed to be first graders, high school is the new college. Teens are more anxious than ever. Depression and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: A Nation at Risk, Adolescence, Adolescents, Advanced Placement (AP), Anxiety, Every Child Succeeds Act, Extracurricular, Grit, High Schoo, homework, mindset, No Child Left Behind, Stress, Teenagers, the arts, The media

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The State of School Recess in America is Still Terrible! - - Is this lack contributing to the deteriorating mental health of students? https://go.shr.lc/3yeH1Jz via @shareaholic

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The Real Reading Debate and How We Fail to Teach Reading https://radicalscholarship.com/2020/02/19/the-real-reading-debate-and-how-we-fail-to-teach-reading/ via @plthomasEdD

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I'm so happy Nancy Bailey reposted her 2014 piece that still rings true: Setting Children Up to Hate Reading

"Why are young children being made to learn at a faster rate?...
Great question!
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Who Will Protect My Right NOT to Pay for Your Child’s Religious Education? https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2020/01/24/who-will-protect-my-right-not-to-pay-for-your-childs-religious-education/ @BadassTeachersA @DianeRavitch #tbats #scotus #SupremeCourt #SeparationOfChurchAndState #ChurchAndState #FreedomFromReligion #education #teachers #schools #students #indoctrinate

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