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
Monday, December 10, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Available at DISCOUNT: Numbers Games
Numbers Games (2004, Peter Lang USA)
My first volume for Lang will be available directly through me soon; I will be selling this for $10 (includes shipping, unless unusual circumstances). Contact me by email if interested in copies:
paul.thomas[at]furman.edu
See info at publisher site.
Book synopsis
My first volume for Lang will be available directly through me soon; I will be selling this for $10 (includes shipping, unless unusual circumstances). Contact me by email if interested in copies:
paul.thomas[at]furman.edu
See info at publisher site.
Book synopsis
American schools are often the victims of numbers games because its education is in the hands of politicians, the populace, and pundits. How Americans view numbers, science, and research profoundly impacts the ability of politicians to manipulate our schools from pre-K through graduate education. Even in classrooms, teachers are routinely implementing flawed assessment strategies based on misguided assumptions about numbers and commonly held statistical truths. American educators need to step out from under the restrictive mandates of politicians and their growing mania for measuring students — they need to leave the numbers games behind and take control of their profession.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Sunday, December 2, 2012
My Twitter Allegory: The Day the Pigs Died
(3) "Let's look at what we feed them. Let's make sure we feed them." Those-In-Charge told the pig weigher to shut up and weigh. +
(2) in charge of weighing the pigs. But the pigs kept dying no matter how often or how they weighed them. One day, a pig weigher said +
(1) A Twitter Allegory: All the pigs kept dying. Those-In-Charge kept creating NEW standards for weighing the pigs, holding accountable all+
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