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

March 8, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

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

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

High School College: High School Hell!

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

President Obama’s “Bubble” and Our Fear of Losing America’s Democratic Public Schools

January 16, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

President Obama’s “Bubble” and Our Fear of Losing America’s Democratic Public Schools

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr. We become so secure in our bubbles, that we start only accepting information, whether it’s true or not, that fits our opinions. President Obama’s Farewell Address, January 10, 2017 On Martin Luther King, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Common Core, K-12 Education, Martin Luther King Jr, Preschool and Early Child Education, President Obama, President-elect Trump, public schools, Race to the Top, special education, teachers, Technology, the arts, The Every Student Succeeds Act

The Upcoming, Troubling, PBS “School of the Future”

September 11, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 26 Comments

The Upcoming, Troubling, PBS “School of the Future”

On Wednesday, Sept. 14, 9 pm ET, PBS and NOVA will air a two hour special called “School of the Future.” The advertisement tells us much. They are warning that the future for children demands that students need better preparation to succeed due to globalization. What they probably won’t tell us is that this future […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "School of the Future", Closing the Achievement Gap, Finland, public schools, Technology, the arts

The Manufactured Shortage: Driving Teachers Out of the Classroom

July 24, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 41 Comments

The Manufactured Shortage: Driving Teachers Out of the Classroom

Those in charge of public schools and politicians are hypocrites when it comes to the rhetoric surrounding a teacher shortage! School districts around the country are describing hundreds of classrooms they can’t seem to fill with qualified teachers. This has been a manipulated ploy to get rid of veteran teachers and employ alternative, revolving door […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class size, Common Core, Corporate School Reforms, high-stakes testing, Manufactured Teacher Shortage, poverty, Professional Development, Retaining Teachers, School Administrators, School Conditions, school libraries, School Support Staff, Teach for America, the arts, Veteran Teachers

The Dangers of Eliminating Teacher Preparation

June 25, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

The Dangers of Eliminating Teacher Preparation

Wisconsin is thinking about letting anyone teach. No degree will be required to enter the classroom and work with students. Isn’t it bizarre to encourage young people to go to college but claim their teachers don’t need a college degree? Surely this is quackery. But I thought it would be a good time to do […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: assessment, Bibliotherapy, child development, Child Psychology, Classroom Management, counseling, dyslexia, Educational Theory, ELL Teachers, learning disabilities, Librarians, math, Other Subjects, Special Areas, special education, Speech and Language, Teacher Preparation, Technology, the arts

Hillary Clinton, Zip Codes, and School Equality

April 17, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Hillary Clinton, Zip Codes, and School Equality

The point often made during debates by Sec. Hillary Clinton is that children should not get a poor education based on their zip code. Most of us would agree about poverty and its harmful effects on children in school. But the zip code message was co-opted a long time ago by those who want to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Counseling Services, Detroit, discipline, Hillary Clinton, libraries, Online Instruction, Over-Testing, Poor Schools, poverty, private schools, Punishing Schools, recess, Rich Schools, Rundown School Facilities, School Nurses, Strictness, teachers, the arts, Wealthy Schools, Whole Curriculum, Zip Codes

The Lopsided Curriculum: Where are Science, Social Studies and the Arts?

March 19, 2016 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

The Lopsided Curriculum: Where are Science, Social Studies and the Arts?

Little children are like sponges, soaking up knowledge of the world around them every minute. So when they start formal education, how much science, social studies and the arts do students in elementary school get? Teaching these subjects used to be important. Learning in these areas sent some of us into our future professions. We […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art, Common Core, Drama, high-stakes testing, Lopsided School Curriculum, music, PARCC, SBAC, science, social studies, the arts

What Happens to Artists Who Aren’t Good Readers?

February 10, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

What Happens to Artists Who Aren’t Good Readers?

Imagine children in public schools today, who do not read well, but who are undiscovered, gifted artists. They are continually drilled in reading and get few opportunities to express themselves artistically. In some schools, if a student does not test well in reading they do not get to be in the band, or they are […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: artists, dyslexia, reading, reading difficulties, the arts, the Goertzels's studies

Some Good Education News from 2015

December 31, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Some Good Education News from 2015

Writing about education is interesting, but it can also be depressing. Sometimes it feels like being a hamster on one of those wheels. So as we close out 2015, here is a list of some good news that happened in 2015. If you have something to add, let me know! Happy New Year! These are […]

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