Sunday, November 10, 2013

11-10-13 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):




The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievement | the becoming radical
The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievement | the becoming radical
Common Core and Testing- Separate or Together. | HTA News & Views
Common Core and Testing- Separate or Together. | HTA News & Views


The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievment
Poverty is a trap children are born into: No child has ever chosen to be poor. Children have never caused the poverty that defines their lives, and their education. Yet, the adults with political, corporate, and educational wealth and power—who demand “no excuses” from schools and teachers serving the new majority of impoverished children in public schools and “grit” from children living in pover




11-9-13 Radical Scholarship
Radical Scholarship:From Spellings to Duncan: Using NAEP as Policy PropagandaWhile Secretary of Education (2005-2009), Margaret Spellings announced that a jump of 7 points in NAEP reading scores from 1999-2005 was proof No Child Left Behind was working. The problem, however, was in the details: During President George W. Bush’s tenure, NCLB was a corner stone of his agenda, and when then-Secretary