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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 · 9h
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 · 12h
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
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 · 15h
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 · 15h
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 · 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
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 · 15h
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 · 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
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.

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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
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Debunking David Brooks on Education
Let's give Jack Ciattarelli a break for a bit and talk about NY Times columnist  David Brooks  (link to gifted article). When Democrats are ...
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
Gibb it a rest! A review of Nick Gibb’s Reforming Lessons yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/educati...
Gibb it a rest! A review of Nick Gibb’s Reforming Lessons
Nick Gibb’s Reforming Lessons aims to defend his ministerial legacy, but instead reads like a desperate attempt to rewrite England’s education failures
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
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The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
UPDATED [Part II]: From Spellings to Duncan [Add King and DeVos]: Incompetence and Deceit radicalscholarship.com/2013/11/08/f...
UPDATED [Part II]: From Spellings to Duncan [Add King and DeVos]: Incompetence and Deceit
UPDATE II: No need for comment except to prompt you to this: Shanker Blog: We Can’t Graph Our Way Out of the Research on Education Spending NOTE: With the appointment of John King to replace …
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 1d
@marcwatkins.bsky.social: "It is deeply upsetting when a student turns to a chatbot to offload their learning, but to see faculty follow suit & do similarly by using AI to grade students to save time is beyond demoralizing to our profession & undermines the very principle of learning": is.gd/Y0wXDu]
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
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Hayley Williams - True Believer (Official Visualizer)
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
Hayley Williams on Fallon
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Hayley Williams on Fallon
If you missed Hayley’s performance on Jimmy Fallon, be sure to watch it.
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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 1d
There Are Eight Different Ways To Subscribe To This Blog – For Free! larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/10/11/t...
There Are Eight Different Ways To Subscribe To This Blog – For Free!
There are many different ways you can subscribe to this blog for free and access the average three posts each day: You can subscribe to my Flipboard. Subscribe by a RSS Reader. One popular R…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
Poem: bloodied 2:31 am radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/24/p...
Poem: bloodied 2:31 am
[Header Photo by Zac Gudakov on Unsplash] “And at once, I knew I was not magnificent” “Halocene,” Bon Iver i wake at 2:31 amfinding dried bloodcrusted on my left earlobei slip stiffly from bedand w…
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 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 · 2d
No, AI Should Not Write Your Outline
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No, AI Should Not Write Your Outline
When folks go casting about for some use for AI in schools, the two items that frequently come up are brainstorming and outlining.
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PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social · 2d
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If You Use AI to Grade Student Writing, Stop or Quit Your Job
Some things you can't be polite about.
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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
A Christian Nation that Honors All Free People radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/25/a...
A Christian Nation that Honors All Free People
[Header Photo by Rob Coates on Unsplash] “No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.” Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire I am not a Christian; I am n…
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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
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 · 3d
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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