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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 5h

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Project 2025: Ending Public Education for Students with Disabilities - Nancy Bailey's Education Website

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expense of it. ~John Adams, President and Statesman, 1758 The Fourth of July always makes me thi...

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 5h

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Special Education and School Choice: Not Great Choices, If Any - Nancy Bailey's Education Website

Years of school reforms have stripped public schools of disability services, creating problems for parents (See Carl Peterson’s recent Exterminating Special Education). Parents may turn to charter, pa...

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 5h

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The Trump Administration is Ending Special Education! - Nancy Bailey's Education Website

...[B]efore IDEA, before the Department of Education existed. State and local schools did not educate these kids; they barred them from the classrooms. These kids [with disabilities] were institutiona...

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 5h

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Linda McMahon’s Reckless and Scary Disregard for Special Education History - Nancy Bailey's Education Website

Linda McMahon appears unaware of the past progress made in serving students with disabilities in public schools. Nor does she understand the complexities surrounding student needs and the long-time un...

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 5h

Special ed., ensuring children with disabilities are educated in public schools, has faced pushback since its start. Many politicians never wanted to fund it. Now the Trump admin. and Linda McMahon will end it. Pick a post below.

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For the record, many Republican children have disabilities too...

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 15h

Teachers and parents fought for the rights of exceptional students, now illegally wiped away by people who know little about IDEA, its history, or the needs of children. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 4d

Religious bigotry has shaped public education. tultican.com/2025/10/08/p... #EducationMatters

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute

By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian. He was responding to a dispute in the Pro…

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Accelerated Insights @disruptsel.bsky.social · 2d

@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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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 ...

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 2d

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#StrongerTogether #MeidasBoosts #resist 👊🏼

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 3d

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...

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...

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Accelerated Insights @disruptsel.bsky.social · 3d

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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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...

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 3d

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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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...

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 4d

It's nice to simply take a deep breath and enjoy what's around you in October.

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midwest-voter.bsky.social @midwest-voter.bsky.social · 4d

@AbigailSpanberger.bsky.social
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

#LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · 5d

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

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...

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Kris Stern @goldenzgirl.bsky.social · 7d

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?...

JANE GOODALL'S LAST INTERVIEW Recorded on 9/23/25

YouTube video by dreamlion

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Ed Fuller @edfuller.bsky.social · 6d

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

#AcademicSky #EduSky

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

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Alexandra W. Logue @lexalogue.bsky.social · 7d

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

College garden nourishes students beyond the classroom

Flowers, fresh fruits and vegetables are being grown by students and staff at Bluegrass Community Technical College.

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Michele Bogart @urbaninsideout.bsky.social · 7d

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 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.

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Cambridge University Press - Law @cambup-law.cambridge.org · 8d

"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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#HigherEd #AcademicSky #PoliSci 🗺️ 🗃️

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.

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