Below is a recent blog post he wrote on the challenges of educating kids from impoverished backgrounds. He takes on one of the new reform words: Grit.
Thomas writes:
In the few years since the start of CC implementation, the narrative and policies among reformers have shifted slightly away from the hardline
“ZIP code is not destiny”—likely in response to scholarly and public challenges to CC. Yet they remained mired an ideology that is only marginally different and goes something like this:
“poverty matters, but educators and schools must focus on only what educators and schools can control—measurable school and teacher
