Sandy Coan does paperwork in her Van Asselt Elementary School classroom. Photo: Dan DeLong/Special To The Post-Intelligencer By Guest Post by Peter Smagorinsky, The University of Georgia c/o Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. June 17, 2014 Response to the new NCTQ [...]
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 [...]
Photograph; Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 1976 (Credit; Alex Webb/Magnum Photos) We can change the brain, through more than education. Nurturing, studies suggest, is a far more powerful medicine. The research replicated reveals that compassion can ameliorate the burdensome conditions that poverty brings, if we consider…. Inequality Begins at [...]
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 [...]
Tenure is Not the ProblemTeacher protections are not why poor schools are failing. Segregation is. By Richard D. Kahlenberg | Originally Published at Slate. June 13, 2014 On Tuesday, a California court struck down state teacher tenure and seniority protections as a violation of the [...]
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. [...]
