PL Thomas EdD

Univ of OK now shifting into competing colleges with Liberty and Bob Jones

Watched Nobody 2 last night and realized the Nobody films parallels My Name Is Nobody

Re: Both are a genre and a parody of a genre

Nobody > John Wick

My Name Is Nobody > Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns

Took advantage of a small lull before the end of classes/exam onslaught to prep my spring syllabi/schedules ... very satisfying to have that completed and now appreciating the effort last spring to revise them significantly

The Cinnabon worker will be receiving a full scholarship to the University of OK in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...

Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It [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…

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Science of Reading or Science of Retention?: Why Miracles Fail Reading Reform [Header Photo by Ava Sol on Unsplash] My entire career in education, begun in the fall of 1984, has been during the accountability era of education that is primarily characterized by one reality—pe…

Science of Reading or Science of Retention?: Why Miracles Fail Reading Reform radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/02/s...

Misreading What’s Wrong with College: Social Media Edition [Header Photo by Dom Fou on Unsplash] Social media is all atwitter over two compelling stories about colleges and universities in the US. First, is the politically charged controversy over a studen…

Misreading What's Wrong with College: Social Media Edition radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/04/m...

Myrtle Wilson as MAGA Allegory [Header Photo by Girl with red hat on Unsplash] As a “good student” in high school and through college, I dutifully worked my way through the so-called major writers, mostly American wr…

Myrtle Wilson as MAGA Allegory radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/06/m...

Poem: someone died today [Header Photo by Ron Szalata on Unsplash] someone died todayand made my partner cryi am afraid of dyingbut more afraid of not livingnot living like todayis the only today we havehow do we do this l…

Poem: someone died today radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/06/p...

Poem: someone died today [Header Photo by Ron Szalata on Unsplash] someone died todayand made my partner cryi am afraid of dyingbut more afraid of not livingnot living like todayis the only today we havehow do we do this l…

Poem: someone died today radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/06/p...

Myrtle Wilson as MAGA Allegory [Header Photo by Girl with red hat on Unsplash] As a “good student” in high school and through college, I dutifully worked my way through the so-called major writers, mostly American wr…

Myrtle Wilson as MAGA Allegory radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/06/m...

The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers [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…

The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/11/t...

Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It [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…

Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/22/m...

Science of Reading or Science of Retention?: Why Miracles Fail Reading Reform [Header Photo by Ava Sol on Unsplash] My entire career in education, begun in the fall of 1984, has been during the accountability era of education that is primarily characterized by one reality—pe…

Science of Reading or Science of Retention?: Why Miracles Fail Reading Reform radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/02/s...

Misreading What’s Wrong with College: Social Media Edition [Header Photo by Dom Fou on Unsplash] Social media is all atwitter over two compelling stories about colleges and universities in the US. First, is the politically charged controversy over a studen…

Misreading What's Wrong with College: Social Media Edition radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/04/m...

When I go out casually, I typically carry the two books I am reading. I like to read 2-3 books at a time. I have a girlfriend who carries a book with her also

We are not performing or trolling for hook ups

We are readers (and I use the book reading also to be alone)

What Marvel’s Black Widow Helps Us Understand about Women in Pop Culture [Header (The Champions v.1, 3, George Tuska pencils, Vince Colletta, inks) and all images used under Fair Use unless otherwise identified] Scarlett Johansson and Charlize Theron are two of the most…

Considering either an individual or possibly a panel or roundtable based on this post (connecting to the focus on comic books from #ncte25) radicalscholarship.com/2025/07/27/w...

Anyone interested in joining a panel or roundtable for #NCTE26 @ncte.org

email me paul[dot]thomas[at]furman[dot]edu

Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It [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…

Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/22/m...

Science of Reading or Science of Retention?: Why Miracles Fail Reading Reform [Header Photo by Ava Sol on Unsplash] My entire career in education, begun in the fall of 1984, has been during the accountability era of education that is primarily characterized by one reality—pe…

Science of Reading or Science of Retention?: Why Miracles Fail Reading Reform radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/02/s...

Misreading What’s Wrong with College: Social Media Edition [Header Photo by Dom Fou on Unsplash] Social media is all atwitter over two compelling stories about colleges and universities in the US. First, is the politically charged controversy over a studen…

Misreading What's Wrong with College: Social Media Edition radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/04/m...

Misreading What’s Wrong with College: Social Media Edition [Header Photo by Dom Fou on Unsplash] Social media is all atwitter over two compelling stories about colleges and universities in the US. First, is the politically charged controversy over a studen…

Misreading What's Wrong with College: Social Media Edition radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/04/m...

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…

Research Highlights "Science of Reading" Fails Equity, Teacher Autonomy, and Social Media Discourse radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/r...

The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is [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…

The Reading Crisis that Always Was and Never Is radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/01/t...

Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It [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…

Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/22/m...

Science of Reading or Science of Retention?: Why Miracles Fail Reading Reform [Header Photo by Ava Sol on Unsplash] My entire career in education, begun in the fall of 1984, has been during the accountability era of education that is primarily characterized by one reality—pe…

Science of Reading or Science of Retention?: Why Miracles Fail Reading Reform radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/02/s...

NEPC Review: ESA’s in Arizona: Q3 2025 Report (Common Sense Institute Arizona, October 2025) nepc.colorado.edu/sites/defaul...

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…

New: Public spaces, politics, and policy: historical entanglements with irrational momentism (Bloomsbury) radicalscholarship.com/2025/09/03/n...

The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers [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…

The Zombie Politics of Merit Pay for Teachers radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/11/t...

Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It [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…

Media Manufactured Education Crisis? You Can Count on It radicalscholarship.com/2025/11/22/m...

Science of Reading or Science of Retention?: Why Miracles Fail Reading Reform [Header Photo by Ava Sol on Unsplash] My entire career in education, begun in the fall of 1984, has been during the accountability era of education that is primarily characterized by one reality—pe…

Science of Reading or Science of Retention?: Why Miracles Fail Reading Reform radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/02/s...