Writing Is a Journey: Thoughts on Writing, College, and the SAT
A writer’s writer often ignored is James Baldwin, who examines his drive to write in the context of race: INTERVIEWER If you felt that it was a white man’s world, what made you think that there was any point in writing? And why is writing a white man’s world? BALDWIN Because they own the business. Well, in retrospect, what it came down to was that I would not allow myself to be defined by other p
James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78
James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78 INTERVIEWER Do you think painters would help a fledgling writer more than another writer might? Did you read a great deal? BALDWIN I read everything. I read my way out of the two libraries in Harlem by the time I was thirteen. One does learn a great deal about writing this way. First of all, you learn how little you know. It is true that the more one learn
American Hustle: Ignoring Poverty in U.S. Needs More than 50-Year Anniversary
It is 2014, and publications such as Education Week are offering 50th-year anniversary looks at the War on Poverty. It is 2014, and race and racism remain words that shall not be spoken, lingering scars on the American character [1] that are routinely concealed beneath a heavy foundation (something in a Caucasian, please) and a bold but not too flashy shade of red lipstick. It is 2014, and almost
3-10-14 the becoming radical EMPATHYEDUCATES! | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
empathyeducates: Teaching Students, Missionary Zeal, and the Cult of PersonalityBy Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published The Becoming Radical. March 9, 2014 As a teacher educator, I now spend much of my spring visiting schools and observing my seniors who are learning to teach in extended field experiences (my university’s version of student teaching). What […]8 by empathy / 9h 3-8-14 the