Paul Thomas
@plthomasEdD
P. L. Thomas, Professor, Furman University. Teacher/Writer/Poet. Twitter is not my classroom. Tweets represent me only and no organization
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There is no reading crisis in the U.S. Here’s what’s really happening. wapo.st/474j758
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | There is no reading crisis in the U.S. Here’s what’s really happening.
Politicians and journalists are misinterpreting the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
The manipulation of research persists on X 😵💫 Direct/explicit teaching groupies don’t read it, they just post the bits they THINK are supporting them. Classic rebuttal 👏👏 Let’s not forget that no ONE study ‘proves’ anything. Now let me dig deeper into those limitations…
This is what the researchers note “These results SUGGEST that explicit teaching is particularly appropriate to help LOW ACHIEVERS from DISADVANTAGED social backgrounds acquire new, complex, and structured mathematical knowledge.” Not simply “Direct instruction in best method"
When you have to lie and mislead using NAEP, the product you are selling is likely not worth buying
Lots of conservatives seem to really only get something when it impacts them personally. Tough to make generalizations like that but seems to be a through line.
The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/the… via @plthomasEdD
![plthomasEdD's tweet card. [Header Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash] In 1961, scholar Jacques Barzun declared “we who run businesses, carry on professions, work for the government, or engage in teaching itself ar…](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1992243364205391872/dkD8xLfP?format=jpg&name=orig)
The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/11/the… via @plthomasEdD
![plthomasEdD's tweet card. [Header Photo by Yohann LIBOT on Unsplash] The metaphors for education reform are far too easy, and thus, becoming themselves cliches—deja vous all over again, beating a dead horse, and for me, the…](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1990812191445110785/jWibwQik?format=jpg&name=orig)
Poem: be careful (DMZ) radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/19/poe… via @plthomasEdD
![plthomasEdD's tweet card. [Header Photo by Антон Дмитриев on Unsplash] There is only dance music in times of war “100 Horses,” Geese be careful what you allow Themto call WarCasualtiesCollateral DamageThe Enemysomeone shoul…](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1991156503315619840/r7ywHjkl?format=jpg&name=orig)
Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/22/med… via @plthomasEdD
![plthomasEdD's tweet card. [Header Photo by American Jael on Unsplash] This fall was the start to year 42 for me as an education, the first 18 as a high school English teacher and the rest as a college professor. I have been…](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1992277707632283650/R3mTBCxR?format=jpg&name=orig)
This review study identified seven broad instructional approaches with a wide range of specific implementation strategies, rooted in constructivist learning theory, that revealed significant improvements in the various domains of learning bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…
And of course it’s also gender biased. We know that there are many more female academics in sociology, arts, and humanities. And we have some blokes telling them their research is worthless? And science researchers are mostly OK, but women are often dismissed here too?
The idea that some academics are “the good ones” and the other ones are wasting their time studying useless things certainly has a long history and is going on in so many ways in the present
In our latest study we reexamined errors in introductory #psychology textbooks. How are they doing compared to our earlier study on books from the early 2010s? On many topics, better! Though some still contain significant errors. And for some topics like spanking, significant…
Not sure you quite get the argument. He’s *not* saying that teaching vocabulary is racist. He’s talking about the ‘gap’ & ‘deficit’ narratives that have swept in, which fail to recognise & undervalue the language of some groups. The classroom research of Julia Snell 1/
Child Poverty % Denmark 2.4% Finland 3.2% Norway 3.6% Sweden 3.6% The UK 32.1%
The use of IQ Testing as a means to rank and select immigrants based on pseudoscientific manipulation of “intelligence testing” is a long tradition of US eugenics
Fun fact: The average Indian IQ is 82. See Adios, America! amzn.to/4pKMlML
Not understanding something isn’t evidence against it. Not knowing how vaccines work doesn’t mean they’re unsafe. Not understanding genetics doesn’t mean GMOs are dangerous. Ignorance is not a counter-argument.
The "Objectively Reasonable" Shooting of #TamirRice: A Reader radicalscholarship.com/2015/12/31/the… via @plthomasEdD
The right routinely attacks Zohran Mamdani as a “socialist” or “Islamist sympathizer.” But these critiques miss his broader ideology, writes @zriboua.
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