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Thomas, P.L. (2012, November 12). Obama won, but did educators lose in the process? AlterNet.

-----. (2012, November 5). The "naive expert" problem in market paradigm and education reform. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, November 4). Two-headed dragon of education policy. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, October 27). The insanity chart of "no excuses" reform. Schools Matter.

-----. (2012, October 27). The MLK imperative in the era of "no excuses." Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, October 22). Armstrong's invisible hand: The strong arm of corporate sponsors. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, October 21). The Polonius chronicles: The invisible hand and the King imperative. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, October 14). Save unsuccessful charter schools (SUCS), now! Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, October 12). Lance Armstrong: All-American bull$#!+. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, October 9). The delusional contradictions of “no excuses” reform and poverty. EduSanity.

-----. (2012, October 8). The great charter charade. Schools Matter.

-----. (2012, October 4). Delusion and negligence: The two-party system in the U.S. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, October 2/3). Missing the forest for the trees. Education Week, 32(6), 22-23, 25.

-----. (2012, October 2). On "reform" and "public" education. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, September 30). Segregated South rises again. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, September 28). What is the SAT good for?: Absolutely nothing. AlterNet.

-----. (2012, September 20). "The difficult thirty percent" redux: The equity gap 2012. The Daily Censored.

-----. (2012, September 20). Chicago teachers' strike raise important issue to SC. The State.

-----. (2012, September 16). Is poverty destiny?: Ideology v. evidence in education reform. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, September 14). Education "reformers" have evidence problem. Schools Matter.

-----. (2012, September 11). Teachers and the death of the American worker. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, September 9). Lost hope: Obama's failing education agenda. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, September 2). On "hostile rhetoric," laziness, and the education debate. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, August 30). "No excuses" and the culture of shame: Why metrics don't matter. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, August 26). Why tenure and unions?: On democracy and equity in the U.S. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, August 23). Educators have no political party. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, August 20). Six degrees of insanity: "Reforming education." AlterNet.

-----. (2012, August 19). State of the unions (and professional organizations): On equity. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, August 14). Belief culture redux: (Social) Darwinism from the right. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, August 9). Blaming the mirror: Lolo Jones and U.S. public education. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, August 3). Whose justice? The Other and the middle-class cocoon. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, August 2). Linking teacher pay to test scores helps no one. The State.


Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2012/08/02/2379015/thomas-linking-teacher-pay-to.html#.UB_GuMhYuzh#storylink=cpy


-----. (2012, August 2). On algebra and lies we tell children (and ourselves). Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, July 27). WARNING: False premise equals false conclusion. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, July 26). Why all the Khan-troversy? Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, July 23). Equity-based reform: Moving beyond accountability. Daily Censored.

-----. (2012, July 22). Political fundamentalism: Misreading the right to bear arms. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, July 15). Time as capital: The rise of the frantic class. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, July 13). No excuses?: Giving power a pass. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, July 10). Are parent trigger laws our new "Superman" - or union kryptonite? AlterNet.

-----. (2012, July 5). Gates's Cannibalistic Culture: Coming to a School Near You! Daily Kos.

-----(2012, June 29). "They ask only opportunity": Hellen Keller and those who will not see. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, June 27). BEWARE: Corporate consumerism culture and the rise of the national curriculum. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, June 25). Poverty and privilege: The consequences of arrogance over humility. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, June 20). Test-based teacher evaluation earns an F, again. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, June 15). Systemic poverty, the psychology of poverty, and misleading binaries. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, June 9). Does tone matter in the education reform debate? Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, June 4). Failing data in education reform. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, June 1). The graphic truth: Disaster capitalism and education reform. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, June 1). NCTQ unmasked. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, May 25). The states: More bully politics of education reform. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, May 23). Win-win, rising tides, and other shell games. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, May 20). Stop investing time, money in charter schools. The Greenville News.

-----. (2012, May 19). The choice agenda exposed. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, May 17). What teachers don’t need (but are getting anyway). The Answer Sheet. Washington Post.

-----. (2012, May 15). Studies suggest economic inequity is built into, and worsened by, school systems. Truthout.

-----. (2012, May 13). I don't need standards to teach, I need students. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, May 11). Janus: God of politics? Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, April 29). Bi-partisan failure: Misreading education "gaps." Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, April 26). Politics and education don't mix. The Atlantic.

----. (2012, April 15). Who controls the table wins. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, April 10). The teaching profession?: Of license, compulsion, and autonomy. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, April 6). Charter schools aren’t the right answer. The State.

-----. (2012, April 5). The bully politics of education reform. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, March 29). Adrienne Rich: Artist of the possible. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, March 25). The tragedy of education transformation: Leadership without expertise. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, March 21). Successful school?: More than data, no miracles. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, March 19). A new politics of human dignity, agency. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, March 16). Charter schools not the answer, especially if we fail to identify the question. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, March 14). The cult of personality v. expertise in the education debate. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, March 6). Separate, unequal...and distracted. Daily Kos. Reposted at truthout.

-----. (2012, February 27). The education games: Reform as double-speak. Daily Kos. Reposted (2012, March 8) at truthout.

-----. (2012, February 22). Education as "politically contested spaces." Daily Kos. Reposted at truthout.

-----. (2012, February 19). Do as I say, not as I do: Why authority fails. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, February 16). Rethinking teacher quality and metrics-mania. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, February 13). Rotten to the (common) core. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, February 11). It's the end of equity as we know it (but we should all feel fine. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, February 10). Professional betrayal on the heals of political betrayal. Schools Matter.

-----. (2012, February 8). Seeking equity: Not "if," but "how" and "why." Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, February 4). Daring to look behind the curtain: The drop-out crisis redux. Daily Kos. Reposted at The Daily Censored. Reposted at truthout.

-----. (2012, January 30). Further confessions of an outlier. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, January 28). 21st century teachers: Easy to hire, easy to fire. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, January 24). "What you say about somebody else, anybody else, reveals you." Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, January 23). Universal public education is dead. truthout.

-----. (2012, January 20). Revisiting (more) lessons from South Carolina. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, January 17). Universal public education is dead: The rise of state schools. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, January 15). Accountability without autonomy is tyranny. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, January 14). Organizations, no, community, yes: MLK Jr. Day 2012. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, January 13). 'Teach for America' overstates its classroom success. Charleston Post and Courier. Expanded and reposted at Schools Matter.

-----. (2012, January 8). The corrosive power of stereotypes in politics and education. The Daily Kos. and The Daily Censored.

-----. (2012, January 8). Don't jump from NCLB frying pan to the fire. The Greenville News.

-----. (2012, January 6). Connecting the dots: The picture is ugly. The Daily Censored.

-----. (2012, January 3). A misguided use of money. Room for Debate. The New York Times.

-----. (2012, January 3). Government "options": A contradiction in terms. Daily Kos.

-----. (2012, January 2). Education and ranking: More lessons from South Carolina. Schools Matter.

-----. (2011, December 30). Unpacking TFA support: Twisted logic and assumptions. Schools Matter.

-----. (2011, December 27). Kurt Vonnegut reborn (well, maybe). Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, December 26). Social context reform: Where to start. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, December 22). Poverty matters!: Part 1 and Part 2. The Daily Censored. Reposted at truthout.

-----. (2011, December 21). Christmas miracle 2011: Poverty matters! Daily Kos. Reposted at The Answer Sheet.

-----. (2011, December 19). Why "evidence-based" education fails. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, December 16). Confessions of an outlier. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, December 14). "I don't believe that": Reforming the debate to reform education. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, December 12). Tebow-mania and America's rose-colored glasses. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, December 11). Misrepresenting Finland: Seeing what we want to see, saying what we want to say. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, December 1). Teacher quality and accountability: A failed debate. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, November 30). "Paddle your own canoe"?: A case for education. Daily Kos. Reposted at Schools Matter.

-----. (2011, December 2). No. At Issue in CQ Researcher. http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/

-----. (2011, November 21). "[N]ot the time...to follow the line of least resistance." Daily Kos. Reposted at Schools Matter and truthout.

-----. (2011, November 15). Diversity and the rise of majority-minority schools. Daily Kos. Reposted at Schools Matter and The Daily Censored. Reposted at truthout.

-----. (2011, November 10). Action v. inaction: The scholar-teacher imperative. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, November 8). Poverty not destiny?: Masking corporate agendas. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, October 30). Le Guin's "The ones who walk away from Omelas”: Allegory of privilege. Daily Kos. Reposted at The Daily Censored (2011, November 3).

-----. (2011, October 26). Don't jump from NCLB to more of the same. The State. Published as Opt out of NCLB to pursue real education reform in The Greenville News (2011, October 30).

-----. (2011, October 23). Testing support for TFA and KIPP: Whose children matter? Daily Kos. Reposted at Schools Matter.

-----. (2011, October 20). Whence come The Leftovers?: Speculative fiction and the human condition. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, October 18). Click, Clack, Moo: Why the 1% always wins. Daily Kos. Reposted at truthout (2011, November 3).

-----. (2011, October 11). Education in the Corporate States of America. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, October 6). Idealism that blinds: Facing social and educational inequity. Daily Kos. Reposted at The Answer Sheet as Are top students being shortchanged? (2011, October 21).

-----. (2011, October 5). Top student crisis!: A call for trickle-down education reform. Daily Kos. Reposted at Schools Matter. Reposted at The Daily Censored.

-----. (2011, October 2). NCLB: Strange bedfellows sprung from opting out. Daily Kos. Reposted at Schools Matter.

-----. (2011, September 26). "We hold these truths to be self-evident. . ."? Daily Kos. Reposted at The Daily Censored.

-----. (2011, September 19). Numbers games: The great SAT and grade-inflation scams. Daily Kos. Reposted at NEPC.

-----. (2011, September 1). Poverty and testing in education: “The present scientifico-legal complex" pts. 1 and 2. truthout.

-----. (2011, September 1). Navigating education claims: A primer. Daily Kos. Reposted at The Answer Sheet (2011, September 13), NEPC (2011, September 2), and Larry Cuban's blog (2011, September 18).

-----. (2011, August 31). Michael Vick's America: Redemption of the pawns. The Daily Censored. Also posted at Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, August 28). Don’t ask schools to fix society’s problems. The State. Also as Shift educational reform strategies in The Greenville News (2011, August 27).

-----. (2011, August 21). Childhood well-being: A mirror of the American character. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, August 14). An honest proposal: End scholastic sport in the U.S. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, August 10). Banning books the American Way. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, August 7). Poverty and testing in education: “The present scientifico-legal complex" pts. 1 and 2. Daily Kos. And at Schools Matter and The Daily Censored.

-----. (2011, August 1). Teachers as radicals: After SOS, what now? Daily Kos. Also at The Daily Censored.

-----. (2011, July 28). Rethinking the wall of separation: Education, government, and corporate America. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, July 27). The power and failure of coercion. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, July 21). Cheating? How about the cheated. Daily Kos. Also posted at Schools Matter.

-----. (2011, July 15). Profiting from poverty?: Inexcusable. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, July 10). Breaking with tradition. Room for Debate. The New York Times.

-----. (2011, July 7). Test-based accountability and international comparisons—Lessons ignored. The Daily Censored. Also posted at Daily Kos and truthout.

-----. (2011, July 1). Smells like. . .another strawman argument. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, June 26). Why the achievement gap matters and will remain. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, June 26). Bitter lessons from chasing better tests. Schools Matter.

-----. (2011, June 22). Strawman argument is all they have. Schools Matter.

-----. (2011, June 10). Public discourse about public discourse: Talking education reform. Daily Kos. Cross-posted at Schools Matter.

-----. (2011, June 7). Poverty and education: Questions raised, questions ignored. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, June 3). NBA finals and "No Excuses" charters. Daily Kos. Reposted at The Answer Sheet: NBA finals and ‘no excuses’ charter schools

-----. (2011, May 30). Avoiding the poverty issue. Room for Debate. The New York Times.

-----. (2011, May 27). How do teachers matter? Not as change agents but as learning opportunities. The Daily Censored.

-----. (2011, May 26). The billionaire (and his minions) doth protest too much, methinks. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, May 14). Maher’s “Real Time” education debate failure redux: Legend of the Fall, pt. VII. The Daily Censored. And at Daily Kos. Re-posted at The Answer Sheet/ The Washington Post.

-----. (2011, May 9). "The children do notice." Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, May 6). Superman is fantasy, teaching is reality. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, May 1). If there remains any question. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, April 27). Shifting talking points among school choice advocates. Daily Kos.

-----. (2011, April 22). Why advocacy and market forces fail education reform. truthout.

-----. (2011, April 19). Standardized students, silenced teachers: The Un-American education agenda. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2011/04/19/standardized-students-silenced-teachers-the-un-american-education-agenda/

-----. (2011, April 11). Accountability? Start at the top. OpEdNews.com http://www.opednews.com/articles/Accountability-Start-at-t-by-Paul-Thomas-110411-375.html

-----. (2011, April 6). Meritocracy myth v. the advantages of privilege (A tale of hubris). The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2011/04/06/meritocracy-myth-v-the-advantages-of-privilege-a-tale-of-hubris/

-----. (2011, April 5). A case against standards. The Answer Sheet/Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/2011/04/04/AFgXSFgC_blog.html

-----. (2011, March 27). Journalists, media fail education reform debate. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Journalists-Media-Fail-Ed-by-Paul-Thomas-110326-816.html

-----. (2011, March 18). Test scores fail students, teachers, but remain a political prop. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2011/03/18/test-scores-fail-students-teachers-but-remain-a-political-prop/
Reposted at The Answer Sheet/Washington Post: How test scores are used as a political prop

-----. (2011, March 13). "A question of power": Of accountability and teaching by numbers. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Question-of-Power--Of-by-Paul-Thomas-110311-481.html

-----. (2011, March 7). My challenge to the false prophets of education reform. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2011/03/07/my-challenge-to-the-false-prophets-of-education-reform/

-----. (2011, March 1). Ironic lessons in education reform from Bill Gates. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ironic-Lessons-in-Educatio-by-Paul-Thomas-110301-979.html

-----. (2011, February 27). Celebrity "common sense" reform for education--Legend of the fall pt. VI. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2011/02/27/celebrity-common-sense-reform-for-education-legend-of-the-fall-pt-vi/






-----. (2011, February 20). Investing in deform (vs reform) and (corporate) results. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Investing-in-Deform-and-C-by-Paul-Thomas-110220-965.html






-----. (2011, February 20). False claims drive two education reform ideas. The Greenville News. http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20110220/OPINION/302200006/Paul-Thomas-False-claims-drive-two-education-reform-ideas






-----. (2011, February 16). The great accountability and "world-class workforce" scam. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2011/02/16/the-great-accountability-and-world-class-workforce-scam/






-----. (2011, February 8). Lessons in education from South Carolina? The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2011/02/08/lessons-in-education-from-south-carolina/






-----. (2011, February 4). The agenda behind teacher union-bashing. Guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/usdomesticpolicy-schools






-----. (2011, February 3). Smarter ways to spend education dollars. The State. http://www.thestate.com/2011/02/03/1676497/thomas-smarter-ways-to-spend-education.html






-----. (2011, January 26). Belief culture: "We don't need no education." truthout. http://archive.truthout.org/belief-culture-we-dont-need-no-education67154






-----. (2011, January 23). "Top level kids" and accountability—A radical response. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2011/01/23/top-level-kids-and-accountability%E2%80%94a-radical-response/






-----. (2011, January 20). Speaking expert to celebrity in 2011—The education reform debate. OpEdNews. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Speaking-Expert-to-Celebri-by-Paul-Thomas-110120-684.html






-----. (2011, January12). 21st century segregation: Inverting King's dream. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2011/01/12/21st-century-segregation-inverting-kings-dream/ also @ truthout 21st Century Segregation: Inverting King's Dream






-----. (2011, January 10). Supermen or kryptonite?—Legend of the fall, pt. V. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2011/01/10/superman-or-kryptonite%E2%80%94legend-of-the-fall-pt-v/






-----. (2011, January 8). Spend energy on S.C. students, not on more tests. The Greenville News. http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20110108/OPINION/301080011/Paul-Thomas-Spend-energy-on-S-C-students-not-on-more-tests






-----. (2011, January 8). Defending the status quo?--False dichotomies and the education reform debate. OpEdNews. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Defending-the-Status-Quo--by-Paul-Thomas-110107-766.html






-----. (2011, January 3). Calculating the Corporate States of America: Revisiting Vonnegut's Player Piano. OpEdNews. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Calculating-the-Corporate-by-Paul-Thomas-110103-130.html






-----. (2010, December 28). Wrong questions = wrong answers: Legends of the fall, pt. IV. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2010/12/28/wrong-questions-wrong-answers-legend-of-the-fall-pt-iv/






-----. (2010, December 26). Statistics obscuring real education challenge. The State. http://www.thestate.com/2010/12/26/1618366/thomas-statistics-obscuring-real.html






-----. (2010, December 17). Fire teachers, reappoint Rhee: Legend of the fall, pt. III. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2010/12/17/fire-teachers-reappoint-rhee-legend-of-the-fall-pt-iii/






-----. (2010, December 16). Finnish envy. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Finnish-Envy-by-Paul-Thomas-101214-873.html






-----.(2010, December 6). The truth about failure in US schools. Guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/05/schools-education






-----. (2010, December 2). The education celebrity tour: Legend of the fall, pt. II. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2010/12/02/the-education-celebrity-tour-legend-of-the-fall-pt-ii/






-----. (2010, November 28). Our faith in a "culture of poverty" never left. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2010/11/28/our-faith-in-a-culture-of-poverty-never-left/






-----. (2010, November 16). The corporate takeover of American schools. Guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/nov/15/education-schools






-----. (2010, November 14). The teaching profession as a service industry. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2010/11/14/the-teaching-profession-as-a-service-industry/






-----. (2010, November 3). Our debate culture—Someone wins, but never the Truth. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2010/11/03/our-debate-culture%E2%80%94someone-wins-but-never-the-truth/






-----. (2010, October 24). The politicians who cried "crisis." truthout. http://archive.truthout.org/the-politicians-who-cried-crisis64359






-----. (2010, October 23). The (shifting) truth about charter schools. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Shifting-Truth-about-by-Paul-Thomas-101021-188.html






-----. (2010, October 19). Legend of the fall: Snapshots of what's wrong in the education debate. The Daily Censored. http://dailycensored.com/2010/10/19/legend-of-the-fall-snapshots-of-whats-wrong-in-the-education-debate/






-----. (2010, October 16). "Don't ask, don't tell": There's a reason Captain America wears a mask. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Don-t-Ask-Don-t-Tell--T-by-Paul-Thomas-101014-950.html






-----. (2010, October 10). A tale of two films. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Tale-of-Two-Films-by-Paul-Thomas-101010-109.html






-----. (2010, October 6). Stop focusing on SAT. The State. http://www.thestate.com/2010/10/06/1498739/thomas-stop-focusing-on-sat.html






-----. (2010, September 28). The great charter compromise: Masking corporate commitments in educational reform. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Great-Charter-Compromi-by-P-L-Thomas-100927-363.html






-----. (2010, September 21). 2020 vision for No Child Left in Poverty. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/2020-Vision-for-No-Child-L-by-P-L-Thomas-100920-367.html






-----. (2010, September 10). "The truth is always hard to swallow"—And other ironies. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Truth-Is-Always-Hard-by-P-L-Thomas-100910-993.html






-----. (2010, September 6). Political reform must precede educational reform—Words Matter. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Political-Reform-Must-Prec-by-P-L-Thomas-100905-271.html






-----. (2010, August 27). Bitter lessons from chasing better tests. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Bitter-Lessons-from-Chasin-by-P-L-Thomas-100826-630.html






-----. (2010, August 21). Brave words? No, but startling occasion(s). OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Brave-Words--No-But-Star-by-P-L-Thomas-100821-426.html






-----. (2010, August 21). Change the real "status quo" hurting education. The Greenville News. http://livinglearninginpoverty.blogspot.com/2010/08/21-august-2010-op-ed-greenville-news.html






-----. (2010, August 17). Reconsidering education "miracles." OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Reconsidering-Education-M-by-P-L-Thomas-100816-438.html






-----. (2010, August 14). Rugged individualism and our pursuit of education. OpEdNews.com. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rugged-Individualism-and-O-by-Paul-Thomas-100813-901.html






-----. (2010, August 11). Why common standards won't work. Education Week, 29(37), 33-34. http://livinglearninginpoverty.blogspot.com/2010/08/9-august-2010-op-ed-at-edweek.html






-----. (2010, June 19). Test scores aren't the most serious problem. The Greenville News.






-----. (2010, June 17). The paradox of teacher quality. The State.






-----. (2010, April 3). Reject misleading rhetoric about public education. The Greenville News.






-----. (2010, March 16). A smarter way to focus education dollars. The State.






-----. (2010, January 26). Bauer's comments reflect our own misconceptions. The State.






-----. (2009, December 6). New president, same failed education policy. The State.






-----. (2009, November 28). Misleading comparisons used in school debate. The Greenville News.






-----. (2009, September 1). Answering the question before it’s asked. The State.






-----. (2009, August 20). Understand the “research” about school choice. The Greenville News.






-----. (2009, June 18). Scripted education doesn't teach students how to think. The Greenville News.






-----. (2009, April 16). Take the politics out of schools. The State.






-----. (2009, March 1). When competition makes things worse. The State.






-----. (2009, February 7). Schooling must reflect society we envision. The Greenville News.






-----. (2009, January 3). Hypocrisy reigns in fixing blame for health, school ills. The Greenville News.






-----. (2008, December 6). Learn Latin, but not to raise SAT scores. The State. (On-line Saturday Opinion Extra).






-----. (2008, September 26). Realism often lacking in education debate. The Greenville News.






-----. (2008, August 22). Crisis rhetoric, Utopian thinking and school “reform.” The State.






-----. (2008, June 30). Teaching credential hasn't been shown to be cost-effective education investment. The Greenville News.






-----. (2008, June 19). How test mania hinders learning. The State.






-----. (2008, May 16). A nation at risk of distorted school critiques. The State.






-----. (2008, April 19). Don’t blame schools for high school dropout rate. The Greenville News.






-----. (2008, January 29). Demographics play big role in school performance. The Greenville News.






-----. (2007, October 30). Schools can’t be panacea for all our problems. The Greenville News.






-----. (2007, September 28). Schools cant’ repair all of poverty’s ills. The State.






-----. (2007, September 3). U.S. Education Department plays games with statistics. The Greenville News.






-----. (2007, June 22). School consolidation may not fulfill promises. The Greenville News.






-----. (2007, June 13). Rethinking school accountability. The State.






-----. (2007, March 10). AP courses valuable when implemented properly. The Greenville News.






-----. (2007, January 18). Open enrollment a bad idea for S.C.’s public schools. The State.






-----. (2007, January 12). Addressing poverty key to improving public schools. The Greenville News.






-----. (2006, November 29). Students can only learn to write well by writing a lot. The Greenville News.






-----. (2006, September 3). The SAT is A) wildly overemphasized .... The State.






-----. (2006, August 26). Tests were never meant to prove anything conclusively. The Greenville News.






-----. (2006, June 25). S.C. must change way it treats poor students. The State.






-----. (2006, June 14). Public education ultimately is about securing our freedom. The Greenville News.






-----. (2006, February 23). Open enrollment plan assumes teachers are failing. The Greenville News.






-----. (2006, January 9). Computer-based testing just creates more problems. The Greenville News.






-----. (2005, October 5). Pledge of allegiance should come from the heart. The Greenville News.






-----. (2005, July 5). Our addiction to testing is failing our schools. The Greenville News.






-----. (2005, March 3). Consumerism, competition won’t cure our schools. The Greenville News.






-----. (2004, December 9). Parents should oppose back-door voucher plan. The Greenville News.






-----. (2004, September 20). Stop obsessing about SAT and look at what it’s telling us. The Greenville News.






-----. (2004, July 25). Can we afford numbers games that rule our schools? The Greenville News.






-----. (2004, March 28). Choice won’t solve the problems in our public schools. The Greenville News.






-----. (2003, October 21). Politicians should stay out of the business of running schools. The Greenville News.






-----. (2002, November 21) Can Vouchers Improve South Carolina Schools? The Greenville News.