Free Reading Redux
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka, Letter to Oskar Pollak 1904 Paul Horton at Anthony Cody’s blog has offered a third installment of his defense of reading, recommending: David Mikics, a Professor of English at the University of Houston, has recently written a very good book on this issue, Slow Reading in a Hurried Age (2013). As reading and English teachers grappl
Autonomy Must Precede Accountabilty
Nearly 2.5 years ago, I wrote directly about the essential flaw with the thirty-plus-years accountability movement in K-12 U.S. public education. That essential flaw is that accountability built on standards and high-stakes testing is a corruption of the concept of accountability—which may be better understood as “responsibility.” The corrupted “accountability” imposed on students, teachers, and s
5-17-14 the becoming radical EMPATHYEDUCATES! | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
THE BECOMING RADICALRadical ScholarshipEMPATHYEDUCATES!the becoming radical A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by The Conversation: Racial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned itRacial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned it1 by plthomasedd / 1d hide // saveMAY 15My Speech to the Graduates: Don’t Listen to Graduation Sp