THE BECOMING RADICAL
EMPATHYEDUCATES!
the becoming radical
A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness
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How We Raise Our Children: On “Because” and “In Spite Of”
While I am disheartened by the cultural tolerance of all sorts of violence that remains in the U.S.—and then particularly in my home region, the South—I am deeply puzzled by a distinction between the public discussions surrounding the NFL’s twin scandals so far this season related to domestic violence and child abuse. In the domestic violence public discourse, one refrain is prominent: “No man sho
SEP 18
Market Ethics No Ethics at All
In the wake of this country’s premier professional sports league fumbling several cases of domestic violence by its players, one high-profile player has become the focus of equally disturbing cases of child abuse. While the league and teams struggled with concerns about due process—deactivating, reactivating, and then deactivating again the player in the child abuse scandal—women and children brui
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Spare the Rod, Respect the Child: Abuse Is Not Discipline
As a teenager and then a young adult, I witnessed in two different contexts a powerful and publicly praised adult who was not what he appeared. Particularly when I was a young adult, early in my career, I was able to fully recognize that this person was the embodiment of hypocrisy and was certainly not suited for his role dealing with teens in multiple roles of authority. While I raised my concern
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Stephen King: On Teaching
My life as a reader and film goer overlapped significantly with Stephen King’s rise to fame as a horror writer, and then while I was teaching in the summer institute for a regional National Writing Project (Spartanburg Writing Project), we assigned King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I have recently reconnected with King through his Doctor Sleep (see my review) and Mr. Mercedes. But thanks t
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Buying the Academy, Good-Bye Scholarship
Higher education is facing difficult economic circumstances. While many are confronting how universities can remain both relevant and financially stable, few are admitting that a huge problem is not a lack of money, but the lure of money—billionaires buying university departments with powerful strings attached. In my books on school choice and poverty, I have addressed the powerful and misguided r
Setting Aside “My Knife Is Bigger than Your Knife”
When I waded into what I knew would be a controversial response to September 11, standing on the shoulders of an equally controversial piece by Michael Stipe, I received some expected responses that ranged from knee-jerk misreadings to very depressing fatalism about human nature and just what the most powerful nation in human history could accomplish. One question deserves at least a brief respons
Is Justice Near for New Orleans Teachers Wrongly Fired After Katrina?
A teacher appreciation week banner from August 2005 remained in the library at George Washington Carver High School when it was photographed 14 months later. (The Times-Picayune archive) By Sue Sturgis August 27, 2014 3:18 PM Email this story | PDF version | Originally Published at Facing […]
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When All the Angels Are White
Illustration by Tara Jacoby By David J. Leonard | Originally Published at Gawker. September 13, 2014 I am an angel in this nation. And I suspect the New York Times or Fox News would remember me as an angel if I am murdered in the middle of […]
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Higher Student Expectations?
Photograph; New Orleans Students. NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune archive) Introductory Reflection by Raynard Sanders, Ed.D., Host of The New Orleans Imperative The term “High Standards” is a part of the education reformer$ in Louisiana daily script. For the past nine years they have been quick to point […]