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P. L. Thomas, Professor of Education (Furman University, Greenville SC), taught high school English in rural South Carolina before moving to teacher education. He is a former column editor for English Journal (National Council of Teachers of English), current series editor for Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres (Brill), and author of Teaching Writing as Journey, Not Destination: Essays Exploring What ‘Teaching Writing’ Means (IAP, 2019) and How to End the Reading War and Serve the Literacy Needs of All Students: A Primer for Parents, Policy Makers, and People Who Care (IAP, in press). NCTE named Thomas the 2013 George Orwell Award winner. He co-edited the award-winning (Divergent Book Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies Research) volume Critical Media Literacy and Fake News in Post-Truth America (Brill, 2018). Follow his work @plthomasEdD and the becoming radical (https://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/).

At Substack: Kurt Vonnegut: “I will then quit this goddamn nightmare job”

Kurt Vonnegut: “I will then quit this goddamn nightmare job”

On Substack: Available Soon: Investigating Educational Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies

Available Soon: Investigating Educational Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies

At Substack: On the Fidelity Problem—And Why Education Wars Are Not Debates

On the Fidelity Problem—And Why Education Wars Are Not Debates

At Substack: Scripted Curriculum (Direct Instruction): Research Contradicts the Story Being Sold

Scripted Curriculum (Direct Instruction): Research Contradicts the Story Being Sold

At Substack: Recommended: Emily St. John Mandel and “those incredible things we had”

Recommended: Emily St. John Mandel and “those incredible things we had”

At Substack: Poem: i don’t remember (sometimes i forget to tell you things)

Poem: i don’t remember (sometimes i forget to tell you things)

At Substack: Misunderstanding John Dewey: On the Failure of Either/Or Thinking

Misunderstanding John Dewey: On the Failure of Either/Or Thinking