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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 Pompous, Demoralizing Letter for Teachers, Students, and Parents

August 21, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

One of the old education reformers is Chester E. Finn, Jr. of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. He referred to himself as aging–not me. But he is old, and my point with this is that the push to destroy public schools, as we know them, started a long time ago. Finn just wrote a letter […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism, Chester E. Finn, education reform, gifted and talented, Jr. Priscella Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Online Schools, special education, Twice Exceptional Students

The Black Hole of Gifted Education and the What Ifs We All Live With

September 5, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 14 Comments

In 2008, I lost my only brother, six years my junior, to pancreatic cancer. A day doesn’t go by that I don’t remember his warm smile and how he could make me laugh. While out and about, I sometimes spot the back of a head and a body built like his, when he was healthy […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alzheimer's Disease, Gifted Education, Global Competition, Global Cooperation, John Andraka, Overpopulation, Pancreatic Cancer, TALENT Act (H.R. 2960), Twice Exceptional Students

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EricCeresaEric Ceresa@EricCeresa·
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@clay_mcch @NancyEBailey1 This is an excellent argument for raising teachers' pay, not any sort of argument against a $15 min wage. And raising the min wage DOES raise wages for workers near the minimum. We just don't usually think about the fact that teachers fit that definition.

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tulticanThomas Ultican@tultican·
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Charter Schools Are Killing Saint Louis Public. The City Is Nailing The Coffin Shut. by Lexi Perez Lane https://link.medium.com/8taMmwG44cb

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clay_mcchClay McChristian@clay_mcch·
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So Biden’s $15 minimum wage comes out to $31,200 a year for a 40 hour work week. The starting salary for a beginning teacher in Texas is $33,660. So a person working a minimum wage job will be making almost the same as a teacher with a college degree. Does this make any sense? 🤷‍♂️

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chicagospedpacChicago SpedPac@chicagospedpac·
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.@ChiPubSchools can you tell us how many specIal educators were forced to resign this week due to your policy of not accommodating remote instruction? Break it down by SpEd teachers, SECAs and clinicians

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susanohaSusan Ohanian@susanoha·
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The authors consider the ways in which educational responses to COVID19 exemplify opportunistic disaster
capitalism.
Disaster Capitalism, Rampant EdTech
Opportunism, and the Advancement of
Online Learning in the Era of COVID19
https://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/issue/current

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