Assistant Professor of Education at Carson Newman University, co-author of The Phenomenological Heart of Teaching and Learning tinyurl.com/y9l4alwq
Joined October 2012
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23 Jul 2023
I read a great book called… UNDERLAND by Robert Macfarlane. Short review here. learninginplace.wordpress.co…
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9 May 2023
In what kind of messed up culture of education do we need RESEARCH to tell us that student-generated questions are a good idea!?
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8 Mar 2023
Anxiety is such a huge issue for so many children. Listen to this for a powerful parent (or teacher)-based approach to helping these kids. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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5 Mar 2023
State's PTA calls for change to 3rd grade retention law - will lawmakers listen?
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3 Mar 2023
“All of the students will have a knowledge far beyond their years…of how to survive in a society that is out to destroy you and…of the extent of evil in this world. Because these young people possess such knowledge, they will be ahead of you in many ways.”
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3 Mar 2023
This was what SNCC told volunteer teachers for the Freedom Schools in 1964. From J. Hale’s The Freedom Schools (2016).
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16 Aug 2018
This by @gbiesta is fundamental to current debates re pedagogy in EYFS: ‘The focus on what works makes it difficult, if not impossible, to ask the questions of what it should work for and who should have a say in determining the latter’ (Biesta, 2007, p. 5)
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19 Nov 2020
Check out “Phenomenology and Educational Theory in Conversation” a new book edited by @cbuniversity Education Professor Patrick Howard and Tone Saevi, Andrew Foran and Gert Biesta. #CBU #facultypublication
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6 Jan 2023
"ESAs, like vouchers, have proven to be a way to use public tax dollars to fund private religious schools. In fact, in states where voucher programs exist, vouchers primarily fund religious schools (particularly Catholic ones)." @TheAndySpears open.substack.com/pub/theedu…
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16 Nov 2022
Listening to Bayo Akomolafe on For the Wild and realizing how messed up mastery learning is from a whole new angle.
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29 Sep 2022
Thank you for your diligent work on this issue and thanks to all the activists who continued to speak up!
29 Sep 2022
BREAKING: Hillsdale-affiliated charter schools withdraw requests to open in Tennessee newschannel5.com/news/newsch…
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14 Jul 2022
The Tennessee Education Association calls on Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to sever ties with Hillsdale College and support legislation to limit the power of the state charter commission, restoring local control in public education. TEAteachers.org/fire-Hillsda…🛑#lies2privatize
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23 Aug 2022
According to the poll, 68 percent of Tennesseans support traditional public schools, compared to 61 percent who have favorable opinions of private schools, 44 percent for magnet schools and only 41 percent for charter schools. #communityschools #edequity #ListenTothePeople
23 Aug 2022
On Channel 5 evening news (Monday), Phil Williams reported on a poll commissioned by SCORE, a pro-charter school group, that shows positive public perception of public schools contrasted with a more negative assessment of charter schools. newschannel5.com/news/newsch…
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15 Jul 2022
Reading Schoolhouse Burning. After reconstruction, Southern states dismantled public education. NC & KY set up parallel tax systems for unequal schools. That’s essentially the same as municipal school district formation.
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15 Jul 2022
The NC & KY schemes were ruled unconstitutional. But municipalities are forming now, and they exacerbate inequity.