Teflon, Fatalism, and Accountability
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. February 6, 2014 One legacy of Ronald Reagan’s presidency is his being tagged the Teflon president, as Patricia Schroeder explained: As a young congresswoman, I got the idea of calling President Reagan the “Teflon president” […]
Down With Textbooks
Amy Conn-Gutierrez/AP Photo By David Cutler | The Atlantic. January 31, 2014 When it comes to teaching history, nothing destroys student interest faster and more completely than a heavy reliance on textbooks. During my first three years of teaching high-school history I would see students’ eyes glaze […]
Trayvon’s Birth Date Marked With Possible ‘Stand Your Ground’ Case
Photograph; Sybrina Fulton’s Birthday Homage Tweet to her son Trayvon Martin Our children are dying by our own hand and we sanction their slaughter. Some may say standardized-tests do our young in. But what of the killings? What of the guns and the “ground” on which we […]
empathyeducates – Common Core: The Standard That Dares Not Speak Its Name
empathyeducates – Common Core: The Standard That Dares Not Speak Its Name: Common Core: The Standard That Dares Not Speak Its NameHouse K-12 Subcommittee Chairwoman Janet Adkins proposed deleting Common Core from Florida Statutes so all the state’s education standards will be under one name. File photo by John IarussiBy James Call| Originally Published at The Current. January 31, 2014It’s not as O