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Charters and Vouchers to Destroy Virginia’s Public Schools Will Involve Questionable Data Collected on Children

December 22, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin is wasting no time setting the wheels in motion to destroy public education in Virginia, considered the fourth-best public school system in the country. If he manages to do this, it will add to America’s already ominous future of free public schooling, school ownership shifted to big business instead of constituents. Most […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aimee Rogstad Guidera, data collection and privacy, Data Quality Campaign (DQC), Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin, Inbloom, public schools, School Privatization, students and data collection in schools, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Virginia, Virginia's new education secretary

Do Students Have to Do Common Core Now to Get into Heaven?

December 17, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

It should be important to everyone, that the other day College Board president and the Common Core creator, David Coleman, met with Catholics—The Cardinal Newman Society which promotes and defends the faith—to allay their worries about Common Core. One Newman member snapped at Coleman and said: We don’t open Catholic schools to get kids into […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Catholic Education, Catholic Schools, Common Core, David Coleman, public schools, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
1 Dec

A reminder that other variables may affect how children do or don't learn to read, and they're often ignored by school reformers. Teachers who work with students will likely recognize them.

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Ohio Department of Education leading quiet policy analysis revolution. via @OhioCapJournal

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Kinderchat Guides to the Classroom is a kindergarten teacher's friend. Clearly written, teachers address problems, but advice is especially useful for understanding child development in the K classroom. #Kinderchat @hechternacht

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It's time to end third-grade retention! There are better solutions, including looping grades 1 and 2.

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Earlier today, I was asked a very simple question, that does not have a simple answer:

“Why are the public schools failing in our state?”

My relatively brief reply (many people seem to tune out when I explain anything in-depth lol) is in this 5-part 🧵:

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