PL Thomas EdD
@plthomasedd.bsky.social
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 ..
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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
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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...
2022: On Fear and Anxiety
Apparently if you are of a certain age—at 60, I am at the end of the Boomer generation—you were convinced by pop culture that one of the great (and even reasonable) fears of being a human was findi…
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2022: On Fear and Anxiety radicalscholarship.com/2022/01/03/2...
Big Lies of Education: Grade Retention
Update [November 2025] Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings, Jiee Zhong [access PDF HERE] See also: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (Forthcoming) The Big Lie of grade retention i…
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NEW retention research
NEW retention data from Mississippi
Big Lies of Education: Grade Retention radicalscholarship.com/2024/12/22/b...
NEW retention research
NEW retention data from Mississippi
Big Lies of Education: Grade Retention radicalscholarship.com/2024/12/22/b...
Research Highlights “Science of Reading” Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse
[Header Photo by Jansen Yang on Unsplash] I am currently reading two engaging and often challenging novels—Roberto Bolano’s huge 2666 and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Bagdad. As an a…
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Research Highlights "Science of Reading" Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/r...
The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is
[Header Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash] In 1961, scholar Jacques Barzun declared “we who run businesses, carry on professions, work for the government, or engage in teaching itself ar…
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The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/t...
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers
[Header Photo by Yohann LIBOT on Unsplash] The metaphors for education reform are far too easy, and thus, becoming themselves cliches—deja vous all over again, beating a dead horse, and for me, the…
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The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/11/t...
Poem: be careful (DMZ)
[Header Photo by Антон Дмитриев on Unsplash] There is only dance music in times of war “100 Horses,” Geese be careful what you allow Themto call WarCasualtiesCollateral DamageThe Enemysomeone shoul…
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Poem: be careful (DMZ) radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/19/p...
Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It
[Header Photo by American Jael on Unsplash] This fall was the start to year 42 for me as an education, the first 18 as a high school English teacher and the rest as a college professor. I have been…
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Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/22/m...
Opinion | Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is
[Header Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash] In 1961, scholar Jacques Barzun declared “we who run businesses, carry on professions, work for the government, or engage in teaching itself ar…
radicalscholarship.com
The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/t...
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers
[Header Photo by Yohann LIBOT on Unsplash] The metaphors for education reform are far too easy, and thus, becoming themselves cliches—deja vous all over again, beating a dead horse, and for me, the…
radicalscholarship.com
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/11/t...
Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It
[Header Photo by American Jael on Unsplash] This fall was the start to year 42 for me as an education, the first 18 as a high school English teacher and the rest as a college professor. I have been…
radicalscholarship.com
Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/22/m...
The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is
[Header Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash] In 1961, scholar Jacques Barzun declared “we who run businesses, carry on professions, work for the government, or engage in teaching itself ar…
radicalscholarship.com
The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/t...
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers
[Header Photo by Yohann LIBOT on Unsplash] The metaphors for education reform are far too easy, and thus, becoming themselves cliches—deja vous all over again, beating a dead horse, and for me, the…
radicalscholarship.com
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/11/t...
Poem: be careful (DMZ)
[Header Photo by Антон Дмитриев on Unsplash] There is only dance music in times of war “100 Horses,” Geese be careful what you allow Themto call WarCasualtiesCollateral DamageThe Enemysomeone shoul…
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Poem: be careful (DMZ) radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/19/p...
The “Objectively Reasonable” Shooting of #TamirRice: A Reader
“In Self Defense,” A.B. Frost, Harper’s Weekly (October 28, 1876) (1934) W.E.B. Du Bois, “A Negro Nation Within a Nation” The colored people of America are coming to f…
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The "Objectively Reasonable" Shooting of #TamirRice: A Reader radicalscholarship.com/2015/12/31/t...
Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It
[Header Photo by American Jael on Unsplash] This fall was the start to year 42 for me as an education, the first 18 as a high school English teacher and the rest as a college professor. I have been…
radicalscholarship.com
Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/22/m...
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Research Highlights “Science of Reading” Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse
[Header Photo by Jansen Yang on Unsplash] I am currently reading two engaging and often challenging novels—Roberto Bolano’s huge 2666 and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Bagdad. As an a…
radicalscholarship.com
Research Highlights "Science of Reading" Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/r...
The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is
[Header Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash] In 1961, scholar Jacques Barzun declared “we who run businesses, carry on professions, work for the government, or engage in teaching itself ar…
radicalscholarship.com
The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/t...
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers
[Header Photo by Yohann LIBOT on Unsplash] The metaphors for education reform are far too easy, and thus, becoming themselves cliches—deja vous all over again, beating a dead horse, and for me, the…
radicalscholarship.com
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/11/t...
Poem: be careful (DMZ)
[Header Photo by Антон Дмитриев on Unsplash] There is only dance music in times of war “100 Horses,” Geese be careful what you allow Themto call WarCasualtiesCollateral DamageThe Enemysomeone shoul…
radicalscholarship.com
Poem: be careful (DMZ) radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/19/p...
Poem: be careful (DMZ)
[Header Photo by Антон Дмитриев on Unsplash] There is only dance music in times of war “100 Horses,” Geese be careful what you allow Themto call WarCasualtiesCollateral DamageThe Enemysomeone shoul…
radicalscholarship.com
Poem: be careful (DMZ) radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/19/p...
Research Highlights “Science of Reading” Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse
[Header Photo by Jansen Yang on Unsplash] I am currently reading two engaging and often challenging novels—Roberto Bolano’s huge 2666 and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Bagdad. As an a…
radicalscholarship.com
Research Highlights "Science of Reading" Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/r...
The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is
[Header Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash] In 1961, scholar Jacques Barzun declared “we who run businesses, carry on professions, work for the government, or engage in teaching itself ar…
radicalscholarship.com
The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/t...
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers
[Header Photo by Yohann LIBOT on Unsplash] The metaphors for education reform are far too easy, and thus, becoming themselves cliches—deja vous all over again, beating a dead horse, and for me, the…
radicalscholarship.com
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/11/t...
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers
[Header Photo by Yohann LIBOT on Unsplash] The metaphors for education reform are far too easy, and thus, becoming themselves cliches—deja vous all over again, beating a dead horse, and for me, the…
radicalscholarship.com
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/11/t...
Poem: be careful (DMZ)
[Header Photo by Антон Дмитриев on Unsplash] There is only dance music in times of war “100 Horses,” Geese be careful what you allow Themto call WarCasualtiesCollateral DamageThe Enemysomeone shoul…
radicalscholarship.com
Poem: be careful (DMZ) radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/19/p...
Poem: be careful (DMZ)
[Header Photo by Антон Дмитриев on Unsplash] There is only dance music in times of war “100 Horses,” Geese be careful what you allow Themto call WarCasualtiesCollateral DamageThe Enemysomeone shoul…
radicalscholarship.com
Poem: be careful (DMZ) radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/19/p...
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The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Research Highlights “Science of Reading” Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse
[Header Photo by Jansen Yang on Unsplash] I am currently reading two engaging and often challenging novels—Roberto Bolano’s huge 2666 and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Bagdad. As an a…
radicalscholarship.com
Research Highlights "Science of Reading" Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/r...