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PL Thomas EdD
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P. L. Thomas, Professor, Furman University. Teacher/Writer/Poet. Social media is not my classroom. Posts represent me only and no organization linktr.ee/plthomas Literacy (reading and composition) and education policy, comic book scholarship .. more

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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · Nov 28
We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis: Selling a Story of Reading (and Literacy) [Webinar Companion Post] radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/23/w...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1h
No, AI Should Not Write Your Outline
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No, AI Should Not Write Your Outline
When folks go casting about for some use for AI in schools, the two items that frequently come up are brainstorming and outlining.
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2h
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If You Use AI to Grade Student Writing, Stop or Quit Your Job
Some things you can't be polite about.
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 6h
Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025 hollywood411news.com/2025/10/10/b...
Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025 - Hollywood411 News
Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 9h
A Christian Nation that Honors All Free People radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/25/a...
A Christian Nation that Honors All Free People
[Header Photo by Rob Coates on Unsplash] “No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.” Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire I am not a Christian; I am n…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 9h
Misunderstanding Mississippi's Reading Reform: The Need to Resist Copycat Education Reform radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/27/m...
Misunderstanding Mississippi’s Reading Reform: The Need to Resist Copycat Education Reform
[Header Photo by BABAMURAT USMANOV on Unsplash] Another flurry of over-the-top commentary has resurfaced on social media concerning reading reform in Mississippi; for example: Since 2019, the disco…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 9h
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won't Die radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/07/t...
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won’t Die
[Header Photo by Sasha San on Unsplash] I am teaching for the second time a new course in my department, an introduction to educational philosophy. At about midterm, we have covered the primary edu…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 9h
NEPC: Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/09/n...
NEPC: Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner
Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner Education scholar, leader, wit, gadfly, mentor, father, friend and NEPC Fellow David C. Berliner died September 26th, 2025. He was 87. As an academic who …
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
NEPC: Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/09/n...
NEPC: Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner
Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner Education scholar, leader, wit, gadfly, mentor, father, friend and NEPC Fellow David C. Berliner died September 26th, 2025. He was 87. As an academic who …
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
Disentangling the Effects of Social and Emotional Learning Programs on Student Academic Achievement Across Grades 1–12: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
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Disentangling the Effects of Social and Emotional Learning Programs on Student Academic Achievement Across Grades 1–12: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
Nobel Prize in Literature Is Awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner nepc.colorado.edu/sites/defaul...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
See NC and UK updates:

The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won't Die radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/07/t...
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won’t Die
[Header Photo by Sasha San on Unsplash] I am teaching for the second time a new course in my department, an introduction to educational philosophy. At about midterm, we have covered the primary edu…
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Accelerated Insights @disruptsel.bsky.social · 1d
Whether Fishtank, CKLA or EL, the pedagogical model of content-rich curriculum aligned to the CCSS perpetuates the "word gap" myth as described by @plthomasedd.bsky.social below:

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Big Lies of Education: Word Gap
The story is simple and may sound obvious: Poor children suffer from a significant “word gap” (WG) when compared to middle-class and affluent children. Miller, Sperry, and Sperry explai…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
I am both not surprised and surprised to find out that a Boomer white man is reading enthusiastically Black Like Me in 2025 ... and recommending to others
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 2d
Everyone needs to know that Dolly Parton responded to a climate disaster in her community with a temporary universal basic income for everyone who lost their homes.

Here's a short documentary about it:
The Great Equalizer: What Dolly Parton & a Tennessee Wildfire Can Teach About Universal Basic Income
YouTube video by In The Mesh
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
Chosen for ARS POETICA III exhibition at the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum this fall: my mother had a million faces (3 pictures). See catalogue and vote HERE

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ARS POETICA III: A Juried Exhibition — Blowing Rock Art & History Museum
September 6 - November 13, 2025 | Alexander Community Gallery
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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 2d
More than 8 in 10 elementary and secondary students in the U.S. go to a traditional public school. But Lindsey Burke (who wrote the education section of Project 2025) expects that public schools will see dramatic enrollment declines www.propublica.org/article/educ...
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
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Another recognition for famed drummer Paul Riddle: South Carolina's highest civilian honor
Paul Riddle has earned many recognitions during his career as a musician and educator. On Oct. 7, another one came his way: The Order of the Palmetto
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
Observations of Young Children Writing Undermine Goldenberg and The “science of reading” Contention that “Phonics is the On-Ramp to Reading”
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Observations of Young Children Writing Undermine Goldenberg and The “science of reading” Contention that “Phonics is the On-Ramp to Reading”
Children have the right to share freely with others what they learn, think and feel, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms other peopleArticle 13 of the UN Convention on the...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
Misunderstanding Mississippi's Reading Reform: The Need to Resist Copycat Education Reform radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/27/m...
Misunderstanding Mississippi’s Reading Reform: The Need to Resist Copycat Education Reform
[Header Photo by BABAMURAT USMANOV on Unsplash] Another flurry of over-the-top commentary has resurfaced on social media concerning reading reform in Mississippi; for example: Since 2019, the disco…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won't Die radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/07/t...
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won’t Die
[Header Photo by Sasha San on Unsplash] I am teaching for the second time a new course in my department, an introduction to educational philosophy. At about midterm, we have covered the primary edu…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 3d
Schedule: Fall/ Winter/ Spring 2025-2026 radicalscholarship.com/2025/05/13/s...
Schedule: Fall/ Winter/ Spring 2025-2026
NCTE Annual Conference 2025 – Denver CO Panel: Balanced Learning Approaches: From Texts to Literacy Enriched Classrooms 11/20/2025 – 1:00 – 2:15, Mile High Ballroom 2C Presentation Drea…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 3d
Just What Is "Good Writing"? [Swift Update] radicalscholarship.com/2024/05/18/j...
Just What Is “Good Writing”? [Swift Update]
[Header Photo by hannah grace on Unsplash] I haven’t seen the memo, but it appears that there is a mandate whenever anyone discusses Taylor Swift they must include at least that she is a good…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 3d
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No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 3d
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won't Die radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/07/t...
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won’t Die
[Header Photo by Sasha San on Unsplash] I am teaching for the second time a new course in my department, an introduction to educational philosophy. At about midterm, we have covered the primary edu…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 3d
Federal Vouchers, Treasury Regulations, and State Flexibility nepc.colorado.edu/sites/defaul...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 3d
The Often Ignored Consequences of Being Gifted: On Misunderstanding Being Smart radicalscholarship.com/2018/09/18/t...
The Often Ignored Consequences of Being Gifted: On Misunderstanding Being Smart
Although routinely misunderstood as well, many people do acknowledge that standardized test scores by students are more strongly a marker for socioeconomic conditions of students and their parents …
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 3d
A Christian Nation that Honors All Free People radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/25/a...
A Christian Nation that Honors All Free People
[Header Photo by Rob Coates on Unsplash] “No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.” Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire I am not a Christian; I am n…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 3d
Misunderstanding Mississippi's Reading Reform: The Need to Resist Copycat Education Reform radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/27/m...
Misunderstanding Mississippi’s Reading Reform: The Need to Resist Copycat Education Reform
[Header Photo by BABAMURAT USMANOV on Unsplash] Another flurry of over-the-top commentary has resurfaced on social media concerning reading reform in Mississippi; for example: Since 2019, the disco…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 3d
Recent Publications radicalscholarship.com/speaking-tru...
Recent Publications
Thomas, P.L. (TBD). Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students.  Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools. Thomas, P.L. (2025). Breaking free of the “war,” “cri…
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