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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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"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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8 Aug

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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