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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
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We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis: Selling a Story of Reading (and Literacy) [Webinar Companion Post] radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/23/w...
Research Highlights "Science of Reading" Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/r...
Research Highlights “Science of Reading” Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse
[Header Photo by Jansen Yang on Unsplash] I am currently reading two engaging and often challenging novels—Roberto Bolano’s huge 2666 and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Bagdad. As an a…
radicalscholarship.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Student Writing as Teaching and Learning, Not Evaluation: And Why the "Research Paper" Mindset Fails Students (Still) radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/19/s...
Student Writing as Teaching and Learning, Not Evaluation: And Why the “Research Paper” Mindset Fails Students (Still)
[Header Photo by Twinkl on Unsplash] I am teaching now into my fifth decade, and most of that career has been dedicated to teaching students to write. But for me teaching and assigning writing is n…
radicalscholarship.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Moving from Performing as a Student to Performing as a Scholar: More on Writing and Citation radicalscholarship.com/2021/04/10/m...
Moving from Performing as a Student to Performing as a Scholar: More on Writing and Citation
The first time I recall being viewed as “good at writing” was in high school when I submitted a parody of my friends and teachers for a short story assignment; this was probably my juni…
radicalscholarship.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Research Highlights "Science of Reading" Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/r...
Research Highlights “Science of Reading” Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse
[Header Photo by Jansen Yang on Unsplash] I am currently reading two engaging and often challenging novels—Roberto Bolano’s huge 2666 and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Bagdad. As an a…
radicalscholarship.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Big Lies of Education: Grade Retention radicalscholarship.com/2024/12/22/b...
Big Lies of Education: Grade Retention
Update [November 2025] Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings, Jiee Zhong [access PDF HERE] See also: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (Forthcoming) The Big Lie of grade retention i…
radicalscholarship.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Research Highlights "Science of Reading" Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/r...
Research Highlights “Science of Reading” Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse
[Header Photo by Jansen Yang on Unsplash] I am currently reading two engaging and often challenging novels—Roberto Bolano’s huge 2666 and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Bagdad. As an a…
radicalscholarship.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM