Wednesday, November 27, 2013

11-27-13 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):




RECOMMENDED: Writing Instruction that Works, Applebee and Langer
RECOMMENDED: Writing Instruction that Works, Applebee and Langer.

On Broken Door Handles and Butter Knives | Christopher Lehman
On Broken Door Handles and Butter Knives | Christopher Lehman


Education Reform as Collaboration, Not Competition
At This Week in Poverty, Greg Kaufmann offers Anti-Poverty Leaders Discuss the Need for a Shared Agenda. Taking a similar pose, Diane Ravitch offers her reasoned “dissent” to my post, Secretary Duncan and the Politics of White Outrage, explaining at the end: My advice to Paul Thomas, whose sense of outrage I share, is to embrace coalition politics. When the white moms and dads realize they are in
Education Reform as Collaboration, Not Competition | the becoming radical
Education Reform as Collaboration, Not Competition | the becoming radical
empathyeducates – Orwellian Educational Change Under Obama
empathyeducates – Orwellian Educational Change Under Obama
empathyeducates – Misreading “Grit”: On Treating Children Better than Salmon or Sea Turtles
empathyeducates – Misreading “Grit”: On Treating Children Better than Salmon or Sea Turtles

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Misreading “Grit”: On Treating Children Better than Salmon or Sea TurtlesRob McEntarffer (@rmcenta) Tweeted a question to me about my blog post, The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievement, asking: “can Grit research (Duckworth, etc) be used as a humanizing/em