In every child's life there is a parent and for most school age children, a Principal. Being either is significant. While styles may be different there is a need to be consistent. A child is more likely to stumble and fall if the ground beneath [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 14, 2014 At mid-nineteenth century, public schools were under attack by the Catholic church; Bishop John Hughes “described the public schools as a ‘dragon…devouring the hope of the country as well as religion’” (Jacoby, [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 26, 2013 “I am an invisible man,” announces the unnamed narrator of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, adding: I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me….When they approach me they see only [...]
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 [...]
Photograph By James April 3, 2013 | The JR Experiment Original Author| Re-Publish at The Becoming Radical. December 22, 2013 Just days ago, I completed my twenty-eighth year as a teacher [1]—eighteen as a high school teacher of English followed by ten years as a professor of [...]
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 [...]
[Image via YouTube] By Decca Aitkenhead | The Raw Story Originally Published at The Guardian. December 6, 2013 Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to ‘keep churning out papers’ Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the [...]
By David Sirota | Originally Published at Salon. November 7, 2013 The right loves to demonize unions, but economic factors are much more important to success in the classroom Google the phrase “education crisis” and you’ll be hit with a glut of articles, blog posts and think [...]
Graphic; Report on A New-Majority Low-Income Students By David Sirota | Originally Published at In These Times In These Times. November 8, 2013 Google the phrase “education crisis” and you'll be hit with a glut of articles, blog posts and think tank reports claiming the entire American [...]
