CALL for Chapter Proposals: Adaptation as Investigations: Critically Rethinking Medium, Genre, and Text
Series: Youth Culture and Pedagogy in the 21st Century William Reynolds and Brad Porfilio, editors Lexington Books Proposed volume title: Adaptation as Investigations: Critically Rethinking Medium, Genre, and Text P. L. Thomas, editor [A]s we put into practice an education that critically provokes the learner’s consciousness, we are necessarily working against myths that deform us. As we confront
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As of April 24, 2014, I am tired to the core of writing about the Common Core because I know three things: I’ve said everything I need to say about Common Core: (a) Arguing about the quality of the CC standards is a distraction from the essential flaw in continuing to chase better standards and tests, (b) because accountability based on standards and tests has never and will never address directl
4-23-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Standards May Achieve Equality, But Not EquityMichelle Morrissey makes a case for Common Core in By ‘Common,’ We Mean Equity: When the Common Core State Standards emerged, it was both a shock and a revelation — for the first time, the dominant model said that my students