Nancy E. Bailey

Science of Reading and EL Education: What is It? - Nancy Bailey's Education Website School privatization was born of manufactured crisis, and one of the so-called crises today is reading instruction. Not that reading shouldn't be debated and improved when it's called for, especially ...

@nancyebailey.bsky.social has taken a deep dive into EL in the context of NYC public schools mandating adoption of their curriculum.

It's not the curriculum but the underlying logic of high quality instructional materials (HQIM) that needs to be investigated.

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Special Education: How Has Teacher Preparation Changed? - Nancy Bailey's Education Website Sometimes parents of students with disabilities will complain that teachers don’t know how to teach special education. This generalization is difficult to pin down. What specifically makes parents bel...

How has teacher education changed? Are students, including children with disabilities, getting qualified teachers who understand child development and child psychology and how to approach academic and social instruction? nancyebailey.com/2019/01/18/s...

Problems Surrounding Amplify’s Core Knowledge Language Arts to Teach Reading - Nancy Bailey's Education Website Many teachers and parents raise concerns that instruction is age-inappropriate. Many school districts have signed on to Amplify to teach subjects including language arts and reading. Teachers must tea...

This @nancyebailey.bsky.social post from 2020 weaves together the premises to the argument.

Basically, the skill of aligning curriculum to developmentally inappropriate learning standards replaces the skill of adjusting curriculum to meet the needs of students.

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

They're only thinking about themselves and what they want, not what's best for America's kids and the diversity they bring to the classroom.
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It's nice to simply take a deep breath and enjoy what's around you in October.

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is a skilled public servant who has been a CIA case officer and U.S. Representative for Virginia, CD 7

Her focus as Governor of Virginia is to protect Virginians and get things done

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How PICTURE Books Help TEACH Comprehension and Phonics! - Nancy Bailey's Education Website When he looks at the pictures, he'll get so excited he'll want to draw one of his own. He'll ask for paper and crayons. ~Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond. If You Give A Mouse a Cookie...

PICTURE BOOKS teach many skills effortlessly, and children like them, especially if they get to choose their favorites. nancyebailey.com/2023/09/27/h...

YouTube video by dreamlion JANE GOODALL'S LAST INTERVIEW Recorded on 9/23/25

This is actually her final interview, recorded in September by Wall Street Journal podcast. More once point without the nonsense. May she rest in peace and may her legacy endure: youtu.be/4oshFOK9-sk?...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

a man in a suit and tie says that doesn 't make sense ALT: a man in a suit and tie says that doesn 't make sense

NURSE SHORTAGE: Raise pay, invest in recruiting, invest in colleges of nursing

TEACHER SHORTAGE: Ignore pay, ignore/close/go around colleges of education, hire unqualified ppl to fill positions

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College garden nourishes students beyond the classroom Flowers, fresh fruits and vegetables are being grown by students and staff at Bluegrass Community Technical College.

Many colleges have food pantries to help food insecure students. Bluegrass Community & Technical College takes it a step further, using an on-campus roof to grow food that is then available in the college's food pantry: buff.ly/ZJfcswx #AcademicSky #highered

The New Deal Masterpieces Threatened by Trump’s D.C. Downsizing Your great-grandparents paid Ben Shahn and Philip Guston to create gorgeous public murals. Next year they could be rubble.

If you care about #NewDeal #art, socially conscious art, #BenShahn, or federal #architecture #history, read this story. A flood of complaints, on the record, can’t hurt. #Academicsky
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The Real History of Tenure If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.

"Attacks on academia are fundamentally about remaking the labor practices that define higher education."

Deepa Das Acevedo, author of The War on Tenure (out now), in Time Magazine

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"Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion"

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it...The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher ed."
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A pedestrian walks by a glass facade that says “National Institutes of Health."

NIH Directors Fired Months After Being Put on Administrative Leave https://bit.ly/3VJXZuh

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Letter by U of AZ faculty chair slamming the dirty demand by the WH and urging the university president to reject this. #AcademicSky #ScienceSky 🧪

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Universities MUST say NO to this dictatorial maneuver!

We need students to choose Career and Technical preparation, but worrisome shortages exist in university prepared careers, like physicians, teachers, engineers, attorneys, managers, accountants, and more.

Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda By Thomas Ultican 9/29/2025 September 9th, propaganda rag, ‘The 74’, published a classic example of anti-public education flummery, “COVID Worsened Long Decline in 12th-Graders’ Reading”. That long…

A great explanation of how billionaires & politicians, knowing little about children & how they learn, took over our public school system. Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda tultican.com/2025/09/29/b...

Breaking Up Public Schools Dangerously Divided the Nation! - Nancy Bailey's Education Website No one is born hating another person. People have to learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. ~Nelson Mandela Free public schools for America's children should unite u...

What if Americans had supported a truly great public school system that brought those with differences together? That focused on compassion and understanding instead of separateness? Where would we be today?

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Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda By Thomas Ultican 9/29/2025 September 9th, propaganda rag, ‘The 74’, published a classic example of anti-public education flummery, “COVID Worsened Long Decline in 12th-Graders’ Reading”. That long…

A great explanation of how billionaires & politicians, knowing little about children & how they learn, took over our public school system. Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda tultican.com/2025/09/29/b...

What the National Reading Panel Report Actually Says About Phonics On the cover of the National Reading Panel Report, it says, “An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction”.

What the National Reading Panel Report Actually Says About Phonics
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America 250: The Billionaire War on Public Education A dark-money campaign to defund schools, silence teachers, and replace democracy with indoctrination.

America 250 Civics Education Coalition dismantles #USDemocracy. Backed by billionaires w/conflicts of interest, it aims to replace evidence-based education w/ propaganda, democratic governance with oligarchic control, inclusion w/ indoctrination.
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Rest in Peace David C. Berliner and thank you. The Manufactured Crisis and other books are still as relevant today as ever. He help shaped the ideas of many educators who care deeply about public education. nepc.colorado.edu/author/berli...

ICYMI: Reunion Edition (9/28) It’s my high school graduating class’s 50th reunion this weekend, and a class reunion is always something.

ICYMI: Reunion Edition (9/28) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters

Education unions at all levels: are you concerned about these developments? You should be!

I complain frequently about the state of education research because i think there’s a lot of problems with it. But I still think that like, there should *be* an education department, like that’s a totally valid field of study.

What schools stand to lose in the battle over the next federal education budget Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.

Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the nation's most vulnerable students and disadvantaged school communities.