Photograph Credit; GuidoVrola; iStock By Jordan Weissmann | Originally Published at Slate. June 12 2014 | The amazing, completely made-up statistic a judge used to strike down teacher tenure in California This week Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu handed the education reform movement a stunning [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Published at The Becoming Radical. June 16, 2014 [Originally posted at Daily Kos and Truthout, "Click, Clack, Moo": Why the 1% Always Wins is a powerful companion to George Saunders's Allegory of Scarcity and Slack.] October 18, 2011 As a high [...]
Americans, for decades now, have aspired to be colorblind, just not completely. Oh we long to see pretty pink crocuses and yellow daffodils flowers bloom in the spring. We want to walk through tall green grasses and bathe in the bright sun. We want to wear colorful [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. June 12, 2014 [Reposting from Truthout as a response to the Vergaras ruling in California to dismantle tenure. See also Adam Bessie's A Tale of Two Vergaras: Of Stardom and the End of Teacher Tenure.] [...]
Photograph; Students walk in the hallway as they enter the lunch line of the cafeteria at Draper Middle School in Rotterdam, N.Y. | Hans Pennink/AP By Ben Casselman | Originally Published at FiveThirtyEight. June 10, 2014 6:52 AM The slow economic recovery is taking a toll on [...]
Julia Macias, at a news conference Tuesday, was one of nine students who claimed tenure laws left bad teachers in place. Credit Monica Almeida/The New York Times Months ago we asked; could it be that at present education policies are designed to serve only a selected population. [...]
By Jennifer Berkshire | Originally Published at EduShyster. June 9, 2014 Do you dream of being part of our nation’s greatest experiment in urban education? I know I do—which is why I was thrilled to be the recipient of a recent Google ad inviting me to Teach, [...]
"What's going on?" (Marvin Gaye) "Like Genocide, So Econocide" (Alice Skirtz) Every once in a while in the sea of intellectual discourse a term surfaces that resonates, that galvanizes the historical moment, that has gravitas. Stokely Carmichael's "Black Power" was one of those terms. [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. June 6, 2014 From the beginning of the call for and debate about Common Core, I have taken a clear stand against the promise of standards-based reform; for example, Why Common Standards Won’t Work: A [...]
