“High Expectations” and the Criminalization of America’s Students Nancy Bailey October 29, 2015 By now most of us have seen the video of the resource officer using brute force to yank a female student out of her desk. Appalling, most agree. But this country has been criminalizing students, if not...
Community Schools or a Bunch of Bologna? Nancy Bailey July 21, 2015 With the re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or No Child Left Behind into the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA), there is a lot of talk about community schools. For many, the term...
Senator Bernie Sanders and K-12 Education: We’re Listening! Nancy Bailey July 7, 2015 1 Comment Bernie fever is sweeping the Internet. I like Sen. Sanders. He says a lot of things that make me want to jump up and shout YES! You Go Bernie! But I, like many others, am still listening for the specifics when...
US DOE Continues to Force Test Failure on ELL Students and Children with Special Needs Nancy Bailey July 1, 2015 According to information given to me by Deborah Abramson Brooks, the U.S. Dept. of Education is insisting that the New York Board of Education continue to force all students with disabilities, except for those...
16 Points about Education I Wish Presidential Candidates would Address Specifically Nancy Bailey June 8, 2015 Do you listen keenly for what politicians say about education and public schools and wind up being disappointed? There is currently, and has been for the last several elections, an absence of discussion about...
Laura Ingalls Wilder Meets Common Core Nancy Bailey February 8, 2015 When I was a child, in 3rd grade, I fell in love with Little House in the Big Woods. I distinctly remember locating it in the little classroom library. I am not sure if I read it before or after Caddie...