By Paul L. Thomas | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 4, 2013, 2013 Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, I taught English in the rural South Carolina high school I attended as a student. Many of those years, I taught Advanced Placement courses as part of [...]
Spending is an interesting subject. More often than not talk of the topic causes great strife. Marriages end over money. Friendships fracture too. Political parties part ways when the dollars are debated. At the same time, Conservatives, Liberals, and Independents agree; Education is our nation's priority. We [...]
By Paul L. Tomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 3, 2013 What do zero-tolerance policies, “no excuses” practices, and grade retention have in common? They all negatively and disproportionately impact children from poverty, minority children, English language learners, and boys; and nearly as [...]
By Paul L. Thomas | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 3, 2013, 2013 We have two recent commentaries that detail how schools and teachers fail students in the teaching of writing—one comes from a college student and the other, from a former teacher. While both [...]
Testimony At Education City Council Hearing From CTS Member By Jeff Nichols | Originally Published at Change The stakes. November 27, 2013 Testimony In Support Of City Council Resolution 1394-2012 Jeff Nichols, Change the Stakes November 25, 2013 Thank you Councilman Jackson for this opportunity to [...]
By Paul L. Thomas | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. November 26, 2013 Rob McEntarffer (@rmcenta) Tweeted a question to me about my blog post, The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievement, asking: “can Grit research (Duckworth, etc) be used as a humanizing/empowering tool, rather [...]
Did you see or hear about the Taos chase? What do you know? Could it be that we know less than we think we do? Might we consider this…On November 20, 2013, President Obama, awarded the Medal of Freedom [Video] to sixteen [16] individuals. Most news reports [...]
By Gina Crosley-Corcoran, CD(DONA), MPH(c) | Originally Published at The Feminist Breeder. November 20, 2013 | Photograph; ("This was a much nicer camper setup than the one we had.") Years ago, some feminist on the internet told me I was "Privileged." THE FUCK!?!?" I said. I came [...]
By Paul Buchheit | Originally Published at Salon | This article originally appeared on AlterNet November 19, 2013 Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast called the public school system a “socialist regime.” Michelle Rhee cautions us against commending students for their ‘participation’ in sports and other activities. Privatizers [...]
