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PL Thomas EdD
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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 .. more

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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · Nov 28
We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis: Selling a Story of Reading (and Literacy) [Webinar Companion Post] radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/23/w...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 6h
Fact Checking "The reading wars are ending. Phonics won." (Washington Post Editorial Board) radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/14/f...
Fact Checking “The reading wars are ending. Phonics won.” (Washington Post Editorial Board)
[Header Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash] The Editorial Board at The Washington Post published a bold claim: The reading wars are ending. Phonics won: The “reading wars” that raged in American …
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 7h
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COMMENTARY: California affirms a comprehensive, inclusive approach to literacy at long last
The landmark literacy law has been described as a "Science of Reading" bill, but this shorthand fails to accurately reflect the legislation’s comprehensive scope and intention.
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 14h
[since feeling is first] poets.org/poem/feeling...
[since feeling is first]
since feeling is first / who pays any attention
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 14h
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/153877...
[somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond]
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,  or which i cannot touch because they are too near ...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 14h
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[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)                                          ...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 14h
e. e. cummings – Next to of course god america i genius.com/E-e-cummings...
e. e. cummings – Next to of course god america i
ee cummings, a pacifist, was imprisoned during World War One for his supposed disloyalty to America. He was also accused, falsely, of being a spy. After the war he moved to Paris
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 14h
To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. (@eji_org) calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
Oct. 14, 1834 | Four People Charged for Teaching Black People to Read in Wheeling, West Virginia
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 15h
New: Public spaces, politics, and policy: historical entanglements with irrational momentism (Bloomsbury) radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/03/n...
New: Public spaces, politics, and policy: historical entanglements with irrational momentism (Bloomsbury)
Thomas, P.L. (2025). Breaking free of the “war,” “crisis,” and “miracle” cycles of reading policy and practice. In T.A. Price & M. McNulty (eds.), Public spaces, politics, and policy: historica…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 15h
Schooling the WSJ and the “Mississippi Miracle” backseatlinguist.com/blog/schooli...
Schooling the WSJ and the “Mississippi Miracle”
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 15h
Shanahan Responds to My WSJ Letter

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Shanahan Responds to My WSJ Letter
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 15h
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won't Die radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/07/t...
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won’t Die
[Header Photo by Sasha San on Unsplash] I am teaching for the second time a new course in my department, an introduction to educational philosophy. At about midterm, we have covered the primary edu…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 15h
NEW: Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students (Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools) radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/12/n...
NEW: Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students (Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools)
Thomas, P.L. (2025, Spring). Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students. Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools, (1), 6-23. Abstract: The current reading crisis, t…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 15h
Teacher Education in (Another) Era of the “Bad Teacher” Myth radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/12/t...
Teacher Education in (Another) Era of the “Bad Teacher” Myth
[Header Photo by CDC on Unsplash] Note I entered the classroom as a high school English teacher somewhat ominously in 1984, an academic year when Orwell’s classic was increasingly assigned bu…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 15h
Schedule: Fall/ Winter/ Spring 2025-2026 radicalscholarship.com/2025/05/13/s...
Schedule: Fall/ Winter/ Spring 2025-2026
NCTE Annual Conference 2025 – Denver CO Panel: Balanced Learning Approaches: From Texts to Literacy Enriched Classrooms 11/20/2025 – 1:00 – 2:15, Mile High Ballroom 2C Presentation Drea…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 16h
NEPC Review: Let’s Get Ready! Educating All Americans for Success (National Governors Association, July 2025) nepc.colorado.edu/sites/defaul...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
Recent Publications radicalscholarship.com/speaking-tru...
Recent Publications
Thomas, P.L. (2025, Spring). Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students. Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools (1), 6-23. Thomas, P.L. (2025). Breaking free of th…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won't Die radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/07/t...
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won’t Die
[Header Photo by Sasha San on Unsplash] I am teaching for the second time a new course in my department, an introduction to educational philosophy. At about midterm, we have covered the primary edu…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
NEPC: Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/09/n...
NEPC: Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner
Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner Education scholar, leader, wit, gadfly, mentor, father, friend and NEPC Fellow David C. Berliner died September 26th, 2025. He was 87. As an academic who …
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students (Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools) radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/12/n...
NEW: Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students (Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools)
Thomas, P.L. (2025, Spring). Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students. Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools, (1), 6-23. Abstract: The current reading crisis, t…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
Teacher Education in (Another) Era of the “Bad Teacher” Myth radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/12/t...
Teacher Education in (Another) Era of the “Bad Teacher” Myth
[Header Photo by CDC on Unsplash] Note I entered the classroom as a high school English teacher somewhat ominously in 1984, an academic year when Orwell’s classic was increasingly assigned bu…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
Poem: my mother had a million faces (3 pictures) radicalscholarship.com/2024/10/05/p...
Poem: my mother had a million faces (3 pictures)
Chosen for ARS POETICA III exhibition at the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum this fall: my mother had a million faces (3 pictures). See catalogue HERE Then memories are films about ghosts “Mr…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email
Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
Teacher Education in (Another) Era of the “Bad Teacher” Myth radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/12/t...
Teacher Education in (Another) Era of the “Bad Teacher” Myth
[Header Photo by CDC on Unsplash] Note I entered the classroom as a high school English teacher somewhat ominously in 1984, an academic year when Orwell’s classic was increasingly assigned bu…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025 hollywood411news.com/2025/10/10/b...
Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025 - Hollywood411 News
Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
Misunderstanding Mississippi's Reading Reform: The Need to Resist Copycat Education Reform radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/27/m...
Misunderstanding Mississippi’s Reading Reform: The Need to Resist Copycat Education Reform
[Header Photo by BABAMURAT USMANOV on Unsplash] Another flurry of over-the-top commentary has resurfaced on social media concerning reading reform in Mississippi; for example: Since 2019, the disco…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
Poem: semantic fever dream (tarot cards) radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/03/p...
Poem: semantic fever dream (tarot cards)
[Header Photo by Viva Luna Studios on Unsplash] “The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left.” 2666, Roberto Belano i didn’…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won't Die radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/07/t...
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won’t Die
[Header Photo by Sasha San on Unsplash] I am teaching for the second time a new course in my department, an introduction to educational philosophy. At about midterm, we have covered the primary edu…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
NEPC: Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/09/n...
NEPC: Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner
Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner Education scholar, leader, wit, gadfly, mentor, father, friend and NEPC Fellow David C. Berliner died September 26th, 2025. He was 87. As an academic who …
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
Recent Publications radicalscholarship.com/speaking-tru...
Recent Publications
Thomas, P.L. (2025, Spring). Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students. Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools (1), 6-23. Thomas, P.L. (2025). Breaking free of th…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students (Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools) radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/12/n...
NEW: Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students (Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools)
Thomas, P.L. (2025, Spring). Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students. Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools, (1), 6-23. Abstract: The current reading crisis, t…
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