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From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American democracy. I was a radical....The situation required not just a new president or new laws, but an uprooting of the old order, the introduction of a new kind of society—cooperative, peaceful, egalitarian.-- Howard Zinn (1994), You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, p. 173

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Thursday, February 28, 2013

CFP: “James Baldwin: Challenging Authors” | American Studies Association

CFP: “James Baldwin: Challenging Authors” | American Studies Association
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Mathematica Study Reveals KIPP Cures Cancer! – @ the chalk face

Mathematica Study Reveals KIPP Cures Cancer! – @ the chalk face
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Schools Matter: College Board Koan

Schools Matter: College Board Koan: What is the sound of one test taken? $$$
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Are education reforms hurting the students who need the most help, poor and … | Education News

Are education reforms hurting the students who need the most help, poor and … | Education News
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Are education reforms hurting the students who need the most help, poor and minority kids? | Get Schooled

Are education reforms hurting the students who need the most help, poor and minority kids? | Get Schooled
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Monday, February 25, 2013

Hearing the Hurricane Coming

Hearing the Hurricane Coming
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The Ends Do Not Justify the Mean(ness) – @ the chalk face

The Ends Do Not Justify the Mean(ness) – @ the chalk face
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Does School Reform Perpetuate Inequity? | National Education Policy Center

Does School Reform Perpetuate Inequity? | National Education Policy Center
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One Teacher's Perspective: Staff Swap: A Revealing School Experiment

One Teacher's Perspective: Staff Swap: A Revealing School Experiment
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Does school reform perpetuate inequity?

Does school reform perpetuate inequity?
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Friday, February 22, 2013

What School Boards Should Read This Week

What School Boards Should Read This Week
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Evidence? They Can’t Handle the Evidence | National Education Policy Center

Evidence? They Can’t Handle the Evidence | National Education Policy Center
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The Study of Business and Globalisation@Limkokwing

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This Week in Poverty: How Obama Can Fight Hunger Now | The Nation

This Week in Poverty: How Obama Can Fight Hunger Now | The Nation
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Evidence? They Can’t Handle the Evidence – @ the chalk face

Evidence? They Can’t Handle the Evidence – @ the chalk face
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

One Teacher's Perspective: School Choice, A Free Market Fantasy

One Teacher's Perspective: School Choice, A Free Market Fantasy
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Current Education Reform Perpetuating, Not Curbing, Inequity | the becoming radical

Current Education Reform Perpetuating, Not Curbing, Inequity | the becoming radical
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IN PRESS: De-Testing and De-Grading Schools (Peter Lang) | the becoming radical

IN PRESS: De-Testing and De-Grading Schools (Peter Lang) | the becoming radical
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Monday, February 18, 2013

“No Excuses” and the Culture of Shame: Why Metrics Don’t Matter – @ the chalk face

“No Excuses” and the Culture of Shame: Why Metrics Don’t Matter – @ the chalk face
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The Benevolent Arrogance of Self-Insulated Power in Educational Policy | educarenow

The Benevolent Arrogance of Self-Insulated Power in Educational Policy | educarenow
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Schools Matter: Media's Misguided "Miracle" Meme

Schools Matter: Media's Misguided "Miracle" Meme
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Friday, February 15, 2013

Paul Thomas: Do Not Become a Zombie « Diane Ravitch's blog

Paul Thomas: Do Not Become a Zombie « Diane Ravitch's blog
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More Challenges to Kirp’s “Miracle” Narrative – @ the chalk face

More Challenges to Kirp’s “Miracle” Narrative – @ the chalk face
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Letters to the Editor – The Post and Courier

Letters to the Editor – The Post and Courier
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Monday, February 11, 2013

Lessons from the Zombie Apocalypse | the becoming radical

Lessons from the Zombie Apocalypse | the becoming radical
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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Sorry, Kirp’s Fix Another Flawed Discourse on Ed Reform – @ the chalk face

Sorry, Kirp’s Fix Another Flawed Discourse on Ed Reform – @ the chalk face
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Friday, February 8, 2013

This Week in Poverty: Revealing the Real TANF | The Nation

This Week in Poverty: Revealing the Real TANF | The Nation
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Charter Schools: A Primer | National Education Policy Center

Charter Schools: A Primer | National Education Policy Center
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Educators: “[N]ot the Time. . .to Follow the Line of Least Resistance” | the becoming radical

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Charter Schools: A Primer | the becoming radical

Charter Schools: A Primer | the becoming radical
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“What is the Matter, My Lord?” | National Education Policy Center

“What is the Matter, My Lord?” | National Education Policy Center
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Monday, February 4, 2013

Schools Can't Do It Alone: Why "Doubly Disadvantaged" Kids Continue to Struggle Academically

Schools Can't Do It Alone: Why "Doubly Disadvantaged" Kids Continue to Struggle Academically
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“What Is the Matter, My Lord?” – @ the chalk face
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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Why Schools Can’t Do It Alone « Diane Ravitch's blog

Why Schools Can’t Do It Alone « Diane Ravitch's blog
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Saturday, February 2, 2013

This Week’s “Round-Up” of Useful Posts on Education Policy Issues | National Education Policy Center

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Friday, February 1, 2013

This Week in Poverty: Time to Take On Concentrated Poverty and Education | The Nation

This Week in Poverty: Time to Take On Concentrated Poverty and Education | The Nation
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New Series 3, No. 26 (2012) | Studies in American Humor

New Series 3, No. 26 (2012) | Studies in American Humor
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  • De-Testing and De-Grading Schools (Peter Lang USA)
  • SCCTE's South Carolina English Teacher
  • Speaking Truth to Power (EJ)
  • the cfp list

Eugene V. Debs

"...I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."

Regenerating the Philosophy of Education

Regenerating the Philosophy of Education

Challenging Genres: Comics and Graphic Novels

Challenging Genres: Comics and Graphic Novels

Parental Choice?

Parental Choice?

21st Century Literacy

21st Century Literacy
If We Are Scripted, Are We Literate?

Confronting the Text, Confronting the World

Confronting the Text, Confronting the World
Series @ Peter Lang USA

Scholarly Publications

  • "No damn cat, and no damn cradle”: The Fundamental Flaws in Fundamentalism According to Vonnegut
  • Comics [entry], Boy Culture
  • Competition: A Multidisciplinary Analysis
  • Links and PDFs of publications
  • Of Rocks and Hard Places—The Challenge of Maxine Greene’s “Mystification” in Teacher Education
  • Orwellian Educational Change under Obama: Crisis Discourse, Utopian Expectations, and Accountability Failures
  • Shifting from Deficit to Generative Practices
  • Still Home (Hub City Writers Project)
  • The Cult of Prescription--Or, a Student Ain't no Slobbering Dog
  • The Futility and Failure of Flawed Goals: efficiency education as smoke and mirrors
  • The Payne of Addressing Race and Poverty in Public Education (Souls, available to subscribers only)
  • Universal Public Education—Our (Contradictory) Missions

Followers

Writers as Teachers of Writing

  • Fox Valley Writing Project: Teaching Grammar in Context
  • Apologies to Sandra Cisneros, Maja Wilson

Writing Organizations and Sites of Interest to Writers

  • Hub City Writers Project (Spartanburg, SC)
  • National Writing Project
  • NCTE National Day on Writing
  • Spartanburg Writing Project
  • Upstate Writing Project
  • Writers in the Schools

What Writers Believe. . .

  • 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer
  • Amy Tan, Mother Tongue
  • Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize Speech (1954)
  • George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1945)
  • George Orwell, Why I Write (1947)
  • John Gardner lecture at Chautauqua, NY (1982)
  • Joyce Carol Oates, From "To a Young Writer" (2003)
  • Kurt Vonnegut, On Science Fiction (1965)
  • Steve Martin, Writing Is Easy
  • Tim O'Brien, Brown University (1999)
  • Tim O'Brien, Telling Tails" (The Atlantic)
  • Toni Morrison, Nobel Lecture
  • William Faulkner audio at UVA

NCTE National Gallery of Writing

NCTE National Gallery of Writing
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