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Like Vultures, They’re Still Planning to End Public Schools and a Professional Teaching Workforce!

April 11, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 16 Comments

There’s a movement underfoot to end the way children learn. Look carefully at who says “we need to reimagine” or “this is the time to reassess” schools. These can be signals from those who’ve led the charge to dismantle public schools for years. Like vultures, they’re scheming how to use this pandemic to put the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Gates and public schools, billionaires and public schools, charter schools, covid-19, disability protections, Education Secretary, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Florida Virtual Schools, Koch plan for schools, Online schooling, SCORE, Virtual Schools, XQ Super Schools

Liking Those We Don’t Like: The Dissonance Involved with Supporting Public Schools

January 9, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Most teachers see the good in everyone. They go into teaching because they care about children, and they take what happens in life personally. They are usually defiantly protective of their turf. Many years ago, I started out disliking the late Benjamin O. Canada, who was superintendent of Atlanta and one of the first school leaders […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Bernie Sanders, Bill & Melinda Gates, Corporations, Corporations and public schools, Golden Globes, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Oprah, President Obama, School Privatization, school reform, Technology and Schools, Tom Hanks, XQ Super Schools

XQ Super Schools—Business Working to End Public High Schools

September 5, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 39 Comments

Laurene Powell Jobs and her XQ school bus are coming to us via television on major networks on September 8th.  She wants to remake high schools. Powell Jobs would have you think that high schools haven’t changed for a hundred years. That’s not true. The American high school can certainly always improve, but the institution […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: High School, Lauren Powell Jobs, Public School Privatization, public schools, Tech take over of public high schools, Technology in Schools, XQ Super Schools

XQ Super Schools vs. Teachers and Great Schools

May 4, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Many teachers are being bombarded by gifts and thank you notes as they are appreciated for what they do. In Grand Rapids, the YMCA, the science museum, universities, and the local school district, with millions of dollars of funding by “XQ: The Super School,” are conspiring to replace teachers and their […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: B.S Detectors, Betsy DeVos, Laurene Powell Jobs, Masters in Education degrees, Museum Schools, public schools, Rethinking High School, Teacher Appreciation, USA Today, XQ Super Schools, YMCA

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ktdaygKatie Day Good@ktdayg·
13 May

Appreciate this list of low-tech, time-honored approaches to teaching social-emotional learning in schools.

In the spirit of @nataliapetrzela’s thoughtful essay today, this is one area where parents + educators on both sides of the pol spectrum could find common ground… https://twitter.com/NancyEBailey1/status/1521106802150199296

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Social-emotional learning is troubling especially due to the sensitive DATA collected on children and how it will be used. It is an issue that should concern all parents and educators. @Screensandkids https://nancyebailey.com/2022/05/02/the-trouble-with-social-emotional-learning-why-be-concerned-heres-why/

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2 May

Social-emotional learning is troubling especially due to the sensitive DATA collected on children and how it will be used. It is an issue that should concern all parents and educators. @Screensandkids https://nancyebailey.com/2022/05/02/the-trouble-with-social-emotional-learning-why-be-concerned-heres-why/

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DASchwartzyDanielle Schwartz@DASchwartzy·
12 May

"Learning Loss" is a marketing scheme invented by ed tech companies, and embraced by the media. They create problems to solve in order to sell products. Oldest trick in the book. https://twitter.com/ELmagazine/status/1524776412233625603

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“If students became more independently driven, or resilient in the face of at-home distractions . . . it wouldn’t necessarily appear in their test scores.” @YongZhaoEd

New research raises questions on capturing a complete view of learning loss. https://bit.ly/3Peuc8A

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SchoolyardNewsSchoolyard News@SchoolyardNews·
11 May

What would happen to Boston schools if the state takes over? Teachers in schools now under state control tell a town hall what it’s like.
#bostonschools #bospoli
https://schoolyardnews.com/life-under-state-receivership-5f80b8c1c37b

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SafeH2o4Schools#GettheLeadOut #ScienceIsReal #TruthMatters@SafeH2o4Schools·
11 May

@hanna_hurley @NancyEBailey1 We're a society that believes the lead issue has been eradicated & the health experts are doing everything possible to protect our children.

It hasn't & they aren't.

Lead poisoning is 100% preventable. https://www.verywellhealth.com/children-lead-blood-levels-5205133

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