Science of Reading: Silver Bullet or Fool's Gold
"If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes truth"
Jan 13 • Paul Thomas
Daredevil 2026
One of the most compelling aspects of superhero comics is the characters are somehow eternally the same and constantly being reborn/rebooted (sometimes…
Jan 9 • Paul Thomas
What Marvel's Black Widow Helps Us Understand about Women in Pop Culture
Over the next 60 years, Marvel’s stewardship of Black Widow reflects the ongoing fate of women in pop culture—being underestimated and hypersexualized.
Jan 8 • Paul Thomas
Grading Covid-Era Students
More on Grade Contracts
Jan 7 • Paul Thomas
Understanding the "Science of Reading"
Another Misleading and Misguided Education Reform Movement
Jan 6 • Paul Thomas
The Accountability Era of Education Reform Failed
Because the Reform Never Matched the Problems
Jan 5 • Paul Thomas
Misery Loves Company
Pluribus as Allegory of Religion
Jan 2 • Paul Thomas

December 2025

My Work in 2025, and Beyond
My published work for 2025, listed below, represents well the range and type of works I do—including analysis of education rhetoric and policy (focusing…
Dec 31, 2025 • Paul Thomas
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