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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:
Be curious rather than angry when a parent, student, or staff member does or says something you don’t like. See Leading With Inquiry, Not Judgment and “Be Curious, Not Judgmental”
As he observes to a fellow dog, “There’s no other place but here.”
As much good work as I’ve done teaching multiple generations of students in Clarksdale, Mississippi, I think the next frontier for me, and maybe for all teachers, should be policy.
The most pro-Trump counties suffered nearly 70,000 more COVID deaths than the most pro-Biden counties did.
Data obtained by Chalkbeat from GoGuardian, an education software company that provides institutions tools to block and restrict certain webpages, shows that the rate of sites blocked in its gambling, betting and fantasy sports category has increased nearly 30% since the company started tracking in 2022, from a low of 13.48 blocks per 1,000 students to 17.4 this year. See The Best Resources For Using “Reactance” With Students To Help Them Learn About How Corporations Try To Manipulate Them
Freedom, by their definition, appears to mean that we are all more exposed to more disease and premature death.
California’s new budget clarifies which college degrees teacher candidates can use to meet credential requirements, creates a statewide system to review teacher transcripts and increases the cost to renew a teaching credential to help pay for it. Teacher candidates pursuing a single-subject credential must have a degree in a subject related to their credential.
What would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?”
These papers find that even students who don’t excel in high school often stand to gain from attending college.
Dennis Ross, a veteran of Middle East diplomacy who served presidents of both parties, said that “the Iranians seem to understand us better than we understand them.”
And so far, what we have around here is a bunch of gelatinous blobs.
Teacher Required To Provide Own Salary
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— The Onion (@theonion.com) July 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM
veteran teachers ARE open to new ideas. we just aren’t hearing many of them
— andrea (@teachbk) July 30, 2026
Everyone waiting to see who will answer the question: “can someone take meeting notes?”
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 31, 2026
The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers
— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) August 1, 2026 at 6:35 AM
I Taught My Student the Most Important Lesson From The Odyssey. Then He Lived It. slate.com/life/2026/08…
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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) August 2, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Teachers don’t want kids to have water bottles but they also don’t want to let the kids out of the room to go drink water.
I prefer they stay in the room and also be hydrated
— andrea (@teachbk) August 3, 2026