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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:
Ninety percent of U.S. four-year colleges and universities will not require applicants for Fall 2027 admissions to submit ACT/SAT scores according to a new tally by FairTest, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing.
She said simple things like putting up “pro-immigrant welcoming posters are a good way to show students that their existence at school is also important and helps instill trust.”
Many of us confuse consuming political news, engaging on social media and participating in group chats with doing the things that we, as individuals, can do to help change our country’s trajectory.
But without evidence that assigning full books produces better academic outcomes than excerpts, the matter largely comes down to experience and preference. See I Think It’s Okay Not To Teach Whole Novels In High School
“The tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We do not see it that way,”
“We have been surprised before in history. We can be surprised again. Indeed, we can do the surprising.” See THE BEST – & MOST INTERESTING – RESOURCES FOR STUDYING HISTORY
Normalize apologizing! Apologizing for things you’ve done/gotten wrong is important both for personal growth and for providing a social baseline for right and wrong. See The Best Resources On The Importance Of Saying “I’m Sorry”
The evidence behind eliminating tracking, creating collaborative planning time and implementing more relevant instruction isn’t speculative; these moves can produce real gains for students and, notably, for teacher retention.
“This is why I don’t surround myself with political consultants,” she said. “I surround myself with organizers.”
California’s mandate requiring later start times for middle and high schools is already yielding results, with students sleeping more, reporting better mental health and scoring higher math and English scores, according to a new study.
Mice seek information even if it does not correlate with receiving a reward—a positive payout such as food and water—and they will, in fact, give up a reward in exchange for information, according to a study published in Nature Neuroscience this July.
I think we’re also in this race where, like, some teachers are using AI to generate their lesson plans and assignments and their quizzes, and then kids are using AI to do them and then teachers are using AI to grade them. So we just have bots talking to bots. And is that what we want education to look like?
it’s not enough to simply know what’s happening in the world outside our classrooms, we should be able to speak to if & how systemic racism, structural inequality, political & religious oppression directly impact our students.
politics aren’t separate from education, ever
— andrea (@teachbk) August 31, 2026
A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o…
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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Native Americans are like hmmmmm…
— Canada Goose (@CanadaGoose911) August 31, 2026
The most consistent theme of conservatism is being completely unable/unwilling to understand how a thing is bad until it happens to you.
— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) September 1, 2026