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Thursday, January 23, 2014

1-23-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD

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








Masquerading (1931)
Masquerading (1931).
Differentiated Teaching of Literature (1931)
Differentiated Teaching of Literature (1931).
To Keep the Peace (1943)
To Keep the Peace (1943).



On Public Schools and Common Core: Graff’s Critique of Ravitch

Are U.S. public schools failing, and if so, will implementing Common Core and next-generation tests as part of school accountability correct those failures? At Valerie Strauss’s The Answer Sheet, Gerald Graff, an English professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has challenged Diane Ravitch’s stance on the both public schools and Common Core, which he characterizes as follows: “Public ed


1-22-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
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