Graduate Summer I 2017

Course Information and support for EDRD 640 (Critical Issues) and EDRD 750 (Scholarly Reading and Writing), Dr. P. L. Thomas

General Information

  • Conventional Language
  • Debunking Ruby Payne
  • Education Department
  • Graduate Studies
  • Graduate Studies Catalogue
  • Palmetto Educators Network
  • Purdue OWL
  • Radical Scholarship

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Sarcasm, Scarlett Johannson and why machines should never grade student writing

Sarcasm, Scarlett Johannson and why machines should never grade student writing, Maja Wilson

From Failing to Killing Writing: Computer-Based Grading
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

A Linguist On the Story of Gendered Pronouns

A Linguist On the Story of Gendered Pronouns
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This Is the Absolute Worst Way to Teach Your Kids to Read

This Is the Absolute Worst Way to Teach Your Kids to Read
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Advice to Students and Authors: Submitting Your Work

Advice to Students and Authors: Submitting Your Work
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Books in the Home Strongly Linked to Academic Achievement - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society

Books in the Home Strongly Linked to Academic Achievement - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society
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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Massachusetts is the 'smartest state' while Mississippi has the lowest IQ: Maps reveal intelligence levels across the US based on tweets

Massachusetts is the 'smartest state' while Mississippi has the lowest IQ: Maps reveal intelligence levels across the US based on tweets
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Monday, June 9, 2014

The Problem Isn't Just Common Core, but the Entire Reform Agenda

As a model for your public commentary:

Paul Thomas: The Problem Isn't Just Common Core, but the Entire Reform Agenda
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EDU 750

  • EDRD 750: Assignments
  • EDRD 750: Required Texts
  • EDRD 750: Tentative Schedule
  • SYLLABUS: EDRD 750

EDRD 750: Resources and Links

  • Bridging Differences
  • Debunking Ruby Payne
  • Inside School Research (Ed Week Blog, Viadero)
  • Journal of Educational Controversy
  • Living in Dialogue
  • Molnar (2001)
  • NCTE Journals
  • NEPC
  • P. L. Thomas Commentaries
  • Palmetto Educators Network
  • SC English Teacher
  • School Finance 101 (Bruce Baker)
  • SCIRA's Reading Matters
  • Shanker Blog
  • Studies Suggest Economic Inequity Is Built Into, and Worsened by, School Systems
  • Teacher in a Strange Land
  • The Answer Sheet (Washington Post)
  • Write for Educational Leadership
  • Yettick (2009)

EDRD 640

  • EDRD 640 FINAL Grade Sheet
  • EDRD 640: Assignments
  • EDRD 640: Book Critique
  • EDRD 640: Literature Review
  • EDRD 640: Tentative Schedule
  • EDRD 640: Topic Schedule
  • Furman University Education Department Conceptual Framework (2013)
  • SYLLABUS: EDRD 640

EDU 640 Topics

  • Topic 1: Historical Perspective
  • Topic 2: Politics: Reading First and NCLB
  • Topic 3: Balanced Literacy
  • Topic 4: Early Literacy
  • Topic 5: Response to Literature
  • Topic 6: Writing Instruction, Spelling, Grammar
  • Topic 7: Assessment
  • Topic 8: Adolescent Literacy
  • Topic 9: Content Area Literacy
  • Topic 10: Bilingual education and English as a Second Language
  • Topic 11: Multiliteracies
  • Topic 12: Poverty and Deficit Thinking

EDRD 640: Resources and Links

  • "A House of My Own," Sandra Cisneros
  • A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways to Support Teachers in Meeting Students’ Needs
  • Common Core State [sic] Standards
  • Dudley-Marling (2007)
  • IRA’s Summary of the NRP Report
  • JEC: The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty (Winter 2009)
  • Krashen (2006)
  • Krashen Web Site
  • NRP Five Components of Reading Instruction
  • National Reading Panel
  • On Reading, Learning to Read and Effective Reading Instruction: An Overview of What We Know and How We Know It
  • Reading First
  • Reading First Audit
  • Thomas (2009)
  • Yatvin (2002)

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