South Carolina and Common Core: A Next Step?

South Carolina and Common Core: A Next Step?

A Brief Meditation on Choice

A Brief Meditation on Choice 

"Hunting Scapegoats": WWII Literacy Crisis and Current Education Reform

"Hunting Scapegoats": WWII Literacy Crisis and Current Education Reform

True Detective: It's Still a Man's (Hostile) World, pt. 2

True Detective: It's Still a Man's (Hostile) World, pt. 2

Knowledge: Not If, but How (and Who Decides)

Knowledge: Not If, but How (and Who Decides)

Retain to Impede: When Reading Legislation Fails (Again)

Retain to Impede: When Reading Legislation Fails (Again)

Three Poems: For Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin

Three Poems: For Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin

Scholars Speak Out: On Leaders and Teacher Responsibility

Scholars Speak Out: On Leaders and Teacher Responsibility

The Analogy, Hyperbole Problem: "With explanation kind" (Tone, pt. 5)

The Analogy, Hyperbole Problem: "With explanation kind" (Tone, pt. 5)

Professors as Public Intellectuals: A Reader

Professors as Public Intellectuals: A Reader

The Mistrial of Jordan Davis: More Evidence Problems for Denying Racism

The Mistrial of Jordan Davis: More Evidence Problems for Denying Racism

Living and Learning in Perpetual Crisis

Living and Learning in Perpetual Crisis

No Excuses?: Giving Power a Pass

No Excuses?: Giving Power a Pass

Denying Racism Has an Evidence Problem

Denying Racism Has an Evidence Problem

Understanding Privilege (Slack) and Poverty (Scarcity) in a Snow Storm

Understanding Privilege (Slack) and Poverty (Scarcity) in a Snow Storm

Schools Matter: Standards as Political Footballs

Schools Matter: Standards as Political Footballs: In a piece published in a 2001 issue of English Journal , "Standards, Standards Everywhere, and Not a Spot to Think," I opened wi...

"What These Children Are Like": Rejecting Deficit Views of Poverty and Language

"What These Children Are Like": Rejecting Deficit Views of Poverty and Language

Core Questions: How Does Common Core Address Poverty?

Core Questions: How Does Common Core Address Poverty?

Progressivism and Whole Language: A Reader

Progressivism and Whole Language: A Reader

Recalling 1947 in 2014

Recalling 1947 in 2014

"What Is Wrong with Aiming for Basic"?

"What Is Wrong with Aiming for Basic"?

Worst Op-Ed of 2014, Already?

Worst Op-Ed of 2014, Already?

A Bill Gates Reader: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been

A Bill Gates Reader: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been

Teflon, Fatalism, and Accountability

Teflon, Fatalism, and Accountability

From Failing to Killing Writing: Computer-Based Grading

From Failing to Killing Writing: Computer-Based Grading

Testing capitalism: Perpetuating privilege behind the masks of merit and objectivity

Testing capitalism: Perpetuating privilege behind the masks of merit and objectivity

Criticizing KIPP Critics

Criticizing KIPP Critics

New Criticism, Close Reading, and Failing Critical Literacy Again

New Criticism, Close Reading, and Failing Critical Literacy Again 

SC's Low Self-Esteem, Florida Addiction, and Education Policy

SC's Low Self-Esteem, Florida Addiction, and Education Policy 

A Critical Truce in the War between Traditionalists and Progressives

A Critical Truce in the War between Traditionalists and Progressives