What do College Professors Want from Incoming High School Graduates?
The focus of this post was prompted by a thread on the NCTE Connected Community: What do College Comp instructors want from incoming High School Graduates? But the essence of this question has been at the core of my work as a teacher for 31 years—18 years as a high school English teachers, two years as lead instructor for the summer institute of the Spartanburg Writing Project, and my current posi
4-24-14 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): Common Core Movement Never about Teaching and Learning, Always about TestingAs 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 t
