Chris Goering of the University of Arkansas is a partner with Jason Endacott in writing a blog called EduSanity. I was happy to discover there are warriors for educational sanity at the U. Of A.
Inspired by Peter Smagorinsky of the University of Georgia, they have launched a series called “Awesome Teachers of Arkansas.” This post features teacher Heather Thompson, who teaches high school English and the arts in Bentonville.
What a lovely way to celebrate teachers!
Peter Smagorinsky began writing about the “Great Teachers of Georgia” in 2012. Here is one of his posts, featuring Bynikini Frazier, a first-grade teacher in the Savannah-Chatham Public Schools.
Great teachers deserve to be recognized and honored.
Are there awesome teachers in your state? Tell the world.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Bentonville is probably the most gentrified school system in Arkansas. After watching what my wife endured while teaching art there, I am immediately skeptical that this is another Walton-funded fluff piece. Please note the severe contrast between “Bentonville” and “Little Rock”.
There are two big piles of money in Arkansas, one based on slavery and sharecropping rots from the bottom, the other from exploitative rent-seeking retail gets burned off the top. Neither of them contributes to the well-being of the state, they just suck us dry.
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I find “awesome” and “great” inappropriate and somewhat offensive. How about using “successful teachers” or “genuine professionals” —- terms with greater professional integrity without they clichéd and juvenile “awesome” and the difficult and improvable “great.”
Sid S. Glassner
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