{"id":597,"date":"2016-02-11T18:22:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/ignoring-poverty-in-the-u-s-professor-paul-thomas-writes-new-book-on-public-education\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:35:25","slug":"ignoring-poverty-in-the-u-s-professor-paul-thomas-writes-new-book-on-public-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/ignoring-poverty-in-the-u-s-professor-paul-thomas-writes-new-book-on-public-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring poverty in America: Professor Thomas writes book on public education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 31, 2012<\/p>\n<p>By Erikah Haavie, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/thomas-book-poverty.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3026 lazyload\" title=\"thomas-book-poverty\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/thomas-book-poverty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"370\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 246px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 246\/370;\" \/><\/a>Furman University education professor Paul Thomas has published his 13th book, <em>Ignoring Poverty in the U.S. \u2014 The Corporate Takeover of Public Education<\/em> (Information Age Publishing).<\/p>\n<p>The book examines how the United States views poverty, people living in poverty, and the weight of poverty on teaching and learning in public schools. Thomas challenges cultural myths about students in poverty, charter schools as viable education reform, and \u201cno excuses\u201d ideologies behind political and public discourse about schools. He confronts many assumptions about poverty, teaching and learning that are rarely examined and argues for education reform based on research and preparing students for democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the Furman faculty in 2002, Thomas taught high school English in rural South Carolina. He earned undergraduate, master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in education from the University of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>He is a column editor for the <em>English Journal<\/em>, a publication of the National Council of Teachers of English, and series editor for <em>Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres<\/em> (Sense Publishers), in which he authored the first volume \u2014 <em>Challenging Genres: Comics and Graphic Novels<\/em>. He has written commentaries for the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <em>Education Week<\/em>, <em>The State<\/em>, and <em>The Greenville News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read Thomas\u2019 blog <a href=\"http:\/\/wrestlingwithwriting.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>. Visit the publisher&#8217;s book site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoagepub.com\/products\/Ignoring-Poverty-in-the-US\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 31, 2012<\/p>\n<p>By Erikah Haavie, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>Furman education professor Paul Thomas has published his 13th book,\u00a0<em>Ignoring Poverty in the U.S. \u2014 The Corporate Takeover of Public Education<\/em>. \u00a0In the book,\u00a0Thomas challenges cultural myths about students in poverty, charter schools as viable education reform, and \u201cno excuses\u201d ideologies behind political and public discourse about schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}