Base Photograph; AP Photo | Wisconsin State Journal/John Hart By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published The Becoming Radical. February 12, 2014 “Work hard. Be nice.” is the tag-line of Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter schools, schools that serve primarily (and often exclusively) high-poverty minority [...]
Photograph; In a frame grab from video obtained by The Associated Press, an inmate attacks fellow inmate Hanni Elabed at the privately-run Idaho Correctional Center just south of Boise, Idaho. Elabed suffered brain damage and persistent short-term memory loss after he was beaten by inmate James Haver [...]
Photograph; Sybrina Fulton's Birthday Homage Tweet to her son Trayvon Martin Our children are dying by our own hand and we sanction their slaughter. Some may say standardized-tests do our young in. But what of the killings? What of the guns and the "ground" on which we [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 30, 2014 The answer to Grant Lichtman’s Does “Grit” Need Deeper Discussion? appears to be an unequivocal yes—based on the exchange in the blog post comments, the Twitter conversations, and comments at my blogs [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 8, 2014 The new Common Core and related tests are likely to continue a three-decade pattern of traditional schooling either integrating the new standards and tests into the existing structure of schools or using [...]
Photograph; A homeless African-American man in Southern California isolated on white. [Copyright: Russell Shively] Cower in the corner. Worry and walk on eggshells. Look behind you. Be alert. There are certain standards that you need to comply with…Do not flirt with possibilities or ever fail. Most every [...]
Photograph; New York Times | Mapping Poverty in America By John Light | Originally Published at Bill Moyers HQ. January 7, 2014 Where can you find concentrated poverty in America? The New York Times put together an interactive map which reveals that almost all American cities have [...]
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 [...]
Words wield as weapons. Attitudes are our stronger armaments. Our beliefs are the bombs that brutalize a nation for generations. Poverty, we say is the greatest petard. Perhaps poverty is but a symptom of the greater scourge – our way of thinking. It is our point of [...]
