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P. L. Thomas, Professor, Furman University. Teacher/Writer/Poet. Social media is not my classroom. Posts represent me only and no organization linktr.ee/plthomas Literacy (reading and composition) and education policy, comic book scholarship
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For @msnbc.com, I wrote about Emilia Perez and the Oscars. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

One look at public school systems, including New York’s, revealed that the educational inequities for their children didn’t look much different from down South.

URGENT deadline today @ncte.org Proposed: NCTE Resolution Statement on Teacher Autonomy radicalscholarship.com/2024/10/18/p...

Misreading the Outlier Distraction: Illiteracy Edition Redux radicalscholarship.com/2025/03/03/m... @cnn.com

Misreading the Outlier Distraction: Illiteracy Edition Redux Arthur Young graduated from high school with honors. However, as an adult, he was illiterate. Literacy expert Helen Lowe featured Young and concluded: Arthur could not read, even at a primer level. He could not drive a car, because he…

Why we are in this mess. Christians do not understand being a Christian People living in a democracy do not understand democracy Capitalists do not understand capitalism

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In Charleston, teaching Black history was always hard. Now it’s even harder. www.postandcourier.com/education-la...

Reading Deserves a New Story, Different Reform radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/11/r...

School Rankings Reflect "Social Capital Family Income Variables," Not Education Quality radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/15/s...

Listen at Busted Pencils: Radical Literacy Scholarship, with Paul Thomas radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/16/l...

Manufacturing Crises to Perpetuate Stories for Ideological Agendas radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/18/m...

Recommended: Voices from the Field: The Impact of the Implementation of Science of Reading Instruction and Policy on Emergent Bilingual/English Learner Literacy Programs and Teachers radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/26/r...

English Journal Series: We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis radicalscholarship.com/2024/04/22/e...

Changes Our University Is Making to Pre-Comply with Possible Future Regulations www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...

Parental Rights as Bullying [UPDATED] radicalscholarship.com/2022/11/21/p...

Whose Rights Matter?: On Censorship, Parents, and Children radicalscholarship.com/2022/10/15/w...

Reading Crisis 1961: "[N]o Further 'Research' into Methods of Reading Is Necessary" radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/15/r...

Reading Deserves a New Story, Different Reform radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/11/r...

School Rankings Reflect "Social Capital Family Income Variables," Not Education Quality radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/15/s...

Listen at Busted Pencils: Radical Literacy Scholarship, with Paul Thomas radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/16/l...

Manufacturing Crises to Perpetuate Stories for Ideological Agendas radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/18/m...

Recommended: Voices from the Field: The Impact of the Implementation of Science of Reading Instruction and Policy on Emergent Bilingual/English Learner Literacy Programs and Teachers radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/26/r...

English Journal Series: We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis radicalscholarship.com/2024/04/22/e...

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"Severance" is ultimately about people who sacrifice their identity to work in corporate America. And if you haven't watched Tramell Tillman's performance as Mr. Milchick this season, you're missing out on one of the best performances on television.

“If a scholar studying these historical phenomena cannot be hired at CUNY, if a job advertisement mentioning these historical phenomena cannot be posted at CUNY, it’s safe to say that it probably won’t be long before any course examining these phenomena cannot be taught at CUNY.”

18-year-old Jude on laws banning gender-affirming care: "On the more extreme end, for a lot of kids it's the possibility of severe mental-health struggles and suicidal ideation - but I also think on a smaller scale, kids, because they cannot be themselves, would rather choose to not be anyone."

Again, this is the most ahistorical take imaginable. The media does a disservice by declaring the roll back of rights a new thing. Anybody heard of Reconstruction? How about 2022, when states started snatching back abortion rights post Dobbs? This is horrible, but it is not a first.

#SOUTHCAROLINA ! Join me at the State House a week from today (March 7) at Noon to #StandUpForScience ! Felon47 & his thugs are dismantling our country's scientific resources & we need to let him know we will NOT STAND FOR IT! Grab your sign & get loud on Friday to stand up for Science!

Commentary: Social science research in SC is under attack www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...

Dear March—Come in—(1320) poets.org/poem/dear-ma...

School Rankings Reflect "Social Capital Family Income Variables," Not Education Quality radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/15/s...

Listen at Busted Pencils: Radical Literacy Scholarship, with Paul Thomas radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/16/l...

Manufacturing Crises to Perpetuate Stories for Ideological Agendas radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/18/m...

Recommended: Voices from the Field: The Impact of the Implementation of Science of Reading Instruction and Policy on Emergent Bilingual/English Learner Literacy Programs and Teachers radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/26/r...

Poem: then spring radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/28/p...

NEW article completing series! English Journal Series: We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis radicalscholarship.com/2024/04/22/e...

Folk asking for a Republican to do the right thing Anyone who is a Republican was always inherently incapable of doing the right thing Rs are proving that now GWBush clearly knows what to do. And. Nothing. This is who they are. Who they have always been

Harrison Butker radicalscholarship.com/2024/05/20/h...

Poem: then spring radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/28/p...

Poem: then spring we almostgive up then springarrives just in time seducing uslike children a geese-covered lawngreen painting over the brown we look up into the bright blue skyexpecting balloons like a rainbow fooled againwe humans hoping winter fadingthen spring —P.L. Thomas

Capitalism Is Your Daddy: "what sort of person to die as" radicalscholarship.com/2021/01/04/c...

The system is fixed You can punish the Owners without punishing the Workers

NEW at English Journal @ncte.org Complete 4-article series on SOR English Journal Series: We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis radicalscholarship.com/2024/04/22/e...

Reading Deserves a New Story, Different Reform radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/11/r...

School Rankings Reflect "Social Capital Family Income Variables," Not Education Quality radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/15/s...

Listen at Busted Pencils: Radical Literacy Scholarship, with Paul Thomas radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/16/l...

Manufacturing Crises to Perpetuate Stories for Ideological Agendas radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/18/m...