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AlterNet: Why Are Americans So Inclined to Disrespect Children?
Why Are Americans So Inclined to Disrespect Children?
Skepticism or Cynicism for Obama Education Agenda?
One response to my Relaxing zero tolerance in schools could be Obama’s boldest civil rights reform is worth highlighting: Readers adamant that the Obama education agenda is beyond such hope. Let me note here that I have long since slipped past healthy skepticism and resigned myself to unhealthy cynicism with respect to either major political party and their leaders, including Obama. I have tried b
APR 03
National Poetry Month: “What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?”
National Poetry Month 2014 comes not on “little cat feet,” like Carl Sandberg’s “Fog,” but in the wake of Walter Dean Myers and his son, Christopher, responding to reports of the whitewashing of books for children. Walter Dean Myers explains: But there was something missing. I needed more than the characters in the Bible to identify with, or even the characters in Arthur Miller’s plays or my belov
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James Baldwin: Challenging Authors (Sense, 2014)
James Baldwin: Challenging Authors (Sense, 2014) A. Scott Henderson and P. L. Thomas, editors Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres
On Children and Childhood
children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew “[anyone lived in a pretty how town],” e.e. cummings In one of those early years of becoming and being a teacher, when I was still teaching in the exact room where I had been a student (a school building that would eventually be almost entirely destroyed by a fire set by children), it was the first day of school, and I was call
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Critical Youth Studies Reader (Peter Lang)
Critical Youth Studies Reader Edited by Awad Ibrahim and Shirley R. Steinberg Preface by Paul Willis
April Fool’s Day Survival Guide
Any who trucks with satire takes a great risk among the humans. – Socrates —
MAR 30
CALL for Proposals: Inside Stories: Teach For America Corps Members Speak Up and Speak Out
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER PROPOSALS Inside Stories: Teach For America Corps Members Speak Up and Speak Out Founded in 1989, Teach For America (TFA) has grown into a massive organization with a presence in thirty states and twenty-six countries, financially supported by a host of philanthropic foundations and other organizations with considerable influence. Additionally, TFA constitutes an integral p
Unions? We Don’t Need No Stinking Unions
I have lived and worked always in the state of South Carolina. SC is a high-poverty state (see here and here) with a racially diverse population (ranked 12th highest). And, like many comparable states across the Deep South, SC is a right to work state. Combined, these characteristics of my home state confirm, I think, my claim about the self-defeating South. However, when it comes to the Great Ame
MAR 29
College Athletes Academic Cheating a Harbinger of a Failed System
Margaret Atwood’s narrator, June/Offred, characterizes her situation in the dystopian speculative world of The Handmaid’s Tale: Apart from the details, this could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances. This is what we are now. The circumstances have been reduced; for those of us who still hav
Cuomo Played Pivotal Role in Charter School Push
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo spoke at a rally in support of charter schools on the steps outside the State Capitol in Albany last month. | Credit Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times By Javier C. Hernández and Susanne Craig | Originally Published at The New York […]
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On Children and Childhood
By Paul L. Thonas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. April 2, 2014 children guessed (but only a few)
and down they forgot as up they grew “[anyone lived in a pretty how town],” e.e. cummings In one of those early years of becoming and […]
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The School-to-Prison Pipeline Starts in Preschool
Photograph; (Courtesy of Steven Depolo, CC BY 2.0) By Mychal Denzel Smith | Originally Published at The Nation. March 28, 2014 – 2:46 PM ET The school-to-prison pipeline, to my mind, is the most insidious arm of this country’s prison-industrial complex. Under the guise of protecting our […]
MAR 31
State’s School Funding Goes to Court
Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Published at EmpathyEducates. March 31, 2014 In New Jersey, the Governor spends one million in taxpayer dollars for “full vindication;” yet there is nothing for education. In Kansas, legislators debate whether a teacher can spank, but as far as the […]
5 Reasons America is Unjustly Afraid of Young Black Men
By Leo Davis | Originally Published at Atlanta Black Star. March 24, 2014 Misreported Statistics Used to Reinforce Black Men as Violent One statistic commonly misused by a misleading media is: 49% of murder victims are black men. 93% of those are killed by other blacks. However, […]
MAR 30
Special Report: Taxpayers Fund Creationism in the Classroom
Image; A striking shift in public policy has flown largely under the radar. By Stephanie Simon | Originally Published at Politico. March 24, 2014 05:01 AM EDT Taxpayers in 14 states will bankroll nearly $1 billion this year in tuition for private schools, including hundreds of religious […]
MAR 29
Reclaiming “No Excuses”: A Reader
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. Matrch 28, 2014 With Waiting for excuses for the inexcusable, Leonard Pitts Jr. offers us all a watershed moment—one that involves reclaiming the language and the narratives in order to take direct action against the […]
