11-10-13 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University):

The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievement | the becoming radical

The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievement | the becoming radical

by P. L. Thomas / 16min 

Common Core and Testing- Separate or Together. | HTA News & Views

Common Core and Testing- Separate or Together. | HTA News & Views

1 by P. L. Thomas / 2h 

The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievment

Poverty is a trap children are born into: No child has ever chosen to be poor. Children have never caused the poverty that defines their lives, and their education. Yet, the adults with political, corporate, and educational wealth and power—who demand “no excuses” from schools and teachers serving the new majority of impoverished children in public schools and “grit” from children living in pover

8 by plthomasedd / 22min 

11-9-13 Radical Scholarship

Radical Scholarship:From Spellings to Duncan: Using NAEP as Policy PropagandaWhile Secretary of Education (2005-2009), Margaret Spellings announced that a jump of 7 points in NAEP reading scores from 1999-2005 was proof No Child Left Behind was working. The problem, however, was in the details: During President George W. Bush’s tenure, NCLB was a corner stone of his agenda, and when then-Secretary

1 by mike simpson / 10h