PREVIEW: New Film Opening 17 June 2014 – “NCTQ Hill”
NCTQ Hill Opening 17 June 2014 Starring Julia Roberts as NCTQ and Hugh Grant as Teacher Watch the PREVIEW!
Peter Smagorinsky: Response to the new NCTQ Teacher Prep Review
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NCTQ: “their remedies are part of the disease”
Accordingly, with admirable, though misdirected intentions, they very seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease. Oscar Wilde (1891), The Soul of Man under Socialism And so: NCTQ releases yet another think tank faux-report that
6-16-14 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): “Click, Clack, Moo”: Why the 1% Always Wins[Originally posted at Daily Kos and Truthout, "Click, Clack, Moo": Why the 1% Always Wins is a powerful companion to George Saunders's Allegory of Scarcity and Slack.] As a high school English teacher for nearly two de