What Are Tests Really Measuring?: When Achievement Isn’t Achievement
High-stakes standardized testing must be the most resilient phenomenon ever to exist on the planet. Joining high-stakes standardized testing in that (dis)honor would be the persistent but misleading claim that test scores are primarily achievement (and a growing future candidate for this honor is the claim that test scores by students, labeled “achievement,” are also credible metrics for “teacher
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Pedagogies of Kindness and Respect: On the Lives and Education of Children
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Pedagogies of Kindness and Respect: On the Lives and Education of Children Edited by P. L. Thomas, Paul C. Carr, Julie Gorlewski, and Brad Porfilio Peter Lang USA Rethinking Childhood Series, Gaile Cannella, series editor Call and Submission Requirements Submit a proposal of about 300 words by February 28, 2014, to paul.thomas@furman.edu. Chapter initial drafts due July 15, 201
Thomas: Charter schools not a smart investment for S.C.
Charter schools not a smart investment for S.C. See full data tables and analysis HERE.
12-11-13 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): Schools Matter: Seeking Equity: Not “If,” But “How” and “Why”Schools Matter: Seeking Equity: Not “If,” But “How” and “Why”: Fiction offers avenues to Truth, often hard Truths, that remain closed or less often traveled otherwise. While many people associate Middle...by P.