At the Chalk Face: Education Reform as Collaboration, Not Competition | National Education Policy Center
At the Chalk Face: Education Reform as Collaboration, Not Competition | National Education Policy Center
CALL: The Politics of Panem: Critical Perspectives on the Hunger Games
Series: Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres Volume Title: The Politics of Panem: Critical Perspectives on the Hunger Games Editor: Sean P. Connors, University of Arkansas By any measure, Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series is a commercial success. In 2012, the bookselling behemoth Amazon reported that the trilogy outsold the Harry Potter series, no small accomplishme
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Misreading “Grit”: On Treating Children Better than Salmon or Sea Turtles
Rob 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/empowering tool, rather than a weapon against schools/kids?” Rob’s question is both a good one and representative of the numerous challenges I received for rejecting “grit”—some of the push-back has been
11-24-13 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): Safe Spaces for Teachers’ Professional Voices in a Public SphereIt is a bittersweet irony that words are mostly inadequate to express my appreciation to be nominated for and then recognized with the National Council of Teachers of English 2013 George Orwell Award—”establ