Photograph; Angel Nevins, center, and her friend and classmate Jade Smith, left, wait for their signal to ring their hand bells as children from the Anderson Grove Head Start program in Caledonia, Mississippi, ring their hand bells to accompany several patriotic songs, Tuesday, February 26, 2013, at [...]
By Peter Gray | Originally Published at Independent Voices. January 2, 2014 Because students spend nearly all of their time studying, they have little opportunity to be creative or discover their own passions I’m a research bio-psychologist with a PhD, so I’ve done lots of school. [...]
There are teachers, who never were. And lessons yet to be. There are those we refuse to see and perhaps, the memory of these lingers. In 2013, there was one – the person, the personification, and her position. Antoinette Tuff was the mentor who never was and [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 22, 2013 In our popular discourse, we are prone to say we are caught between a rock and a hard place, a veiled allusion to Homer’s Scylla and Charybdis. For K-12 public school teachers [...]
Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. December 22, 2013 For youth between the ages of 10 and 24, suicide is the third leading cause of death. Approximately 4600 young lives are lost each year. A nationwide survey of youth in grades 9–12 [...]
Way back when, in the stone-age of education, ability grouping and tracking were popular. Some might argue that even when it was out it was in, dependent on where you lived. Nonetheless, it existed and/or exists. When the practice is present the torch of proficiency is the [...]
The lens of ADHD has changed our perceptions of ourselves and our children. By Jessica Grogan, Ph.D. | Originally Published at Encountering America. Psychology Today. December 17, 2013 Since 1990, the number of American children on medication for ADHD has risen precipitously (from 600,000 to 3.5 million) [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 17, 2013 Rep. Andy Patrick, R-Hilton Head Island (SC), has made two flawed claims recently, one about leadership and another about teacher evaluation (“S.C. lawmaker proposes teacher evaluation plan,” Charleston Post and Courier, December [...]
Political Cartoon; "Believe" By Clay Bennett, Washington Post Writers Group By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 14, 2013 Compelling research suggests that the public in the U.S. is unique in its commitment to belief, often at the expense of evidence—leading [...]
