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I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful.
Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful. And they may, or may not, be directly connected to education. I may also include my own comments or related links.
This regular post will join my other regular ones on teaching ELLs, education policy, Artificial Intelligence, infographics, and Pinterest highlights, not to mention sharing of my regular Education Week posts.
Here are this week’s sentences:
“It is perfectly honest to say, ‘I chose a private school because I want the best for my kid, but it is also true that private schools are bad for society and do more to reproduce inequality than to remedy it.
The great challenge of teaching is not to transmit information—machines do that cheaply now—but to engineer those moments of genuine understanding reliably enough that students come to crave them.
“I was so unsettled that I called almost everyone I knew with ties to A.I. for a sanity check,” he writes. “Unfortunately, almost no one was reassuring.”
AI doesn’t have to hate us to kill us. When humans build a skyscraper, we don’t hate the ants—but the excavator still destroys the anthill.
About 73 percent of U.S. teachers strongly or somewhat support setting a maximum amount of time that students can spend on school-issued devices during the school day…
The country is almost certainly dirtier, poorer, less prosperous, and in some ways less safe than in 2024. But that’s not because of Democrats or immigrants. It’s because of the people currently running the place. They’re really hoping you’ll blame someone else.
The targeted tools, such as Khan Academy’s Khanmigo and Quill, a writing app, produced the most consistent and strongest learning experiences, they found. I’ve been a longtime fan of Quill!
When it comes to the education of Black children in this country, there is nearly always going to be a struggle. It’s just a matter of which one.
Universities love to trumpet teaching, but do little to fund, support, or *incentivize* that work.
We have no reason to believe a sudden shift to a phonics-based curriculum will significantly affect reading outcomes in this country.
A tool created with the sincere goal of enhancing our respect for animals could end up having the opposite effect by turning them into playthings that we can pester and control.
In Hazrat’s view, the greatest changed-the-world punctuation mark of all time is the space.
Probably a safe bet
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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) September 17, 2026 at 6:52 PM
There are few things that annoy more than research papers attacking K-12 teacher tenure written by…professors who have tenure.
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 17, 2026
I will return to this paragraph by C. S. Lewis at least once a week until the day I die pic.twitter.com/22dbiux3ll
— Dylan O’Sullivan (@DylanoA4) September 17, 2026
The number of times I attended a district-required professional development session that made me a better teacher
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 18, 2026
For students’ sake, universities must change approach to math instruction edsource.org?page_id=765907
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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) September 18, 2026 at 9:21 PM
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 18, 2026
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JD Vance Has a Twisted Idea of What It Means to Be American www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o…[image or embed]
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) September 20, 2026 at 11:29 AM
For students’ sake, universities must change approach to math instruction via @edsource pic.twitter.com/ShltcsOtYF
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 19, 2026
I don’t think there’s a statement that better captures the conservative world view
— S (@even_steven8tht) September 21, 2026
@wsj interview w @AdamMGrant repeating for the corporate world the 100+ yr old transferrable skills view of learning, from the beginning of the 20th century, the invention of the internet (you don’t need knowledge, you can just “Google it”) and now w AI. pic.twitter.com/2PEOk0ZfFa
— Todd Truitt (@ToddTruitt76508) September 21, 2026
Someone asked if I was ready for the fall and it took me a second to realize they meant autumn and not the total collapse of society.
— Nux (@mherlihy0816) September 22, 2026