by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
Federal Vouchers, Treasury Regulations, and State Flexibility nepc.colorado.edu/sites/defaul...
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by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
by P. L. Thomas
We are rewatching Stranger Things in prep for final season. First 2 episodes are excellent and very sweet, glad to be reminded
by P. L. Thomas
USA 2025: "Cheap Streamers in the Rain" radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/18/u...
USA 2025: “Cheap Streamers in the Rain”
[Header Photo by Casper Johansson on Unsplash] That idea—humankind’s inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—coupled with a system for protecting human rights —was an…
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by P. L. Thomas
A Message from the Nonviolent Left radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/23/a...
A Message from the Nonviolent Left
[Header Photo by George Pagan III on Unsplash] I am writing this as someone who is solidly on the Left, and not in the misleading way often expressed in the US where the Left really doesn’t e…
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by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
Poem: semantic fever dream (tarot cards) radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/03/p...
Poem: semantic fever dream (tarot cards)
[Header Photo by Viva Luna Studios on Unsplash] “The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left.” 2666, Roberto Belano i didn’…
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by P. L. Thomas
by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
USA 2025: "Cheap Streamers in the Rain" radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/18/u...
USA 2025: “Cheap Streamers in the Rain”
[Header Photo by Casper Johansson on Unsplash] That idea—humankind’s inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—coupled with a system for protecting human rights —was an…
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by P. L. Thomas
A Message from the Nonviolent Left radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/23/a...
A Message from the Nonviolent Left
[Header Photo by George Pagan III on Unsplash] I am writing this as someone who is solidly on the Left, and not in the misleading way often expressed in the US where the Left really doesn’t e…
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by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
Poem: semantic fever dream (tarot cards) radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/03/p...
Poem: semantic fever dream (tarot cards)
[Header Photo by Viva Luna Studios on Unsplash] “The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left.” 2666, Roberto Belano i didn’…
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by P. L. Thomas
Just What Is "Good Writing"? radicalscholarship.com/2024/05/18/j...
Just What Is “Good Writing”?
[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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by P. L. Thomas
A Message from the Nonviolent Left radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/23/a...
A Message from the Nonviolent Left
[Header Photo by George Pagan III on Unsplash] I am writing this as someone who is solidly on the Left, and not in the misleading way often expressed in the US where the Left really doesn’t e…
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by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
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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by P. L. Thomas
Poem: semantic fever dream (tarot cards) radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/03/p...
Poem: semantic fever dream (tarot cards)
[Header Photo by Viva Luna Studios on Unsplash] “The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left.” 2666, Roberto Belano i didn’…
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