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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

8-12-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University):







VAM Remedy Part of Inequity Disease

But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease. Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism” In Reliability and validity of inferences about teachers based on student test scores (ETS, 2013), Edward H. Haertel draws an important conclusion about value-added methods of evaluating teachers built on standardized tests: “Tests ali


8-11-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Blacked Out: “you must consider what happens to a life which finds no mirror”First the air is blue and then it is bluer and then green and then black I am blacking out “Diving into the Wreck,” Adrienne Rich Recently, I have been trying to navigate my own journey toward c