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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:
A former Assistant U.S. Attorney described the ground plan in Minnesota: “They were, like, ‘Occupy Minneapolis like it was Falluja.’ ”
If we have to wait for person after person to experience the brutality of this administration before we wake up, then we’ll inflict an immense amount of pain on our country. But if, instead, we could place ourselves in the shoes of the immigrant in chains, then we can see the injustice more plainly.
As we watch our neighbors being detained and deported, we see that we are not losing the “worst of the worst,” but people who embody some of the best American ideals: hard work, selfless contribution, and a desire to build a better future for their families and communities.
Kids today use phones mainly to communicate with their friends about the incomprehensible stuff they find interesting. They gossip, fight, explore, flirt, nerd out, bully each other, and forge friendships—just like they would in person, if their parents would ever let them hang out unsupervised.
“You have the full authority to enforce your laws,” he said, “but, please, you don’t have to chain the people. You don’t have to destroy human beings.”
“Move fast and break things,” Mark Zuckerberg famously said, decreeing a motto not just for Facebook but for the tech sector writ large. But it’s our children, people now worry, who these technologies seem to be breaking.
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Bel was desperate, and his death is a kind of murder, but what the U.S. is doing to itself is simply suicide.
“People hate what they don’t understand,” Olie said. “But if they would just hang out with someone who is trans or go to a drag show, they would see the healing joy, and in about 10 minutes their preconceived notions will not be there.”
One of the important findings from research has been that genes don’t play a large role in whether we’re on a journey to the brain cliff or when we might reach it. That means the environment and how we live matter hugely and that’s what the cognitive super-agers I interviewed illustrated.
The study concludes that integrating group-based tasks into the ESL classroom creates a supportive environment that enhances motivation and oral communication competence.
“Kids don’t do their best for robots; kids do their best for people.”
I feel better already
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 4, 2026
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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) September 8, 2026 at 5:33 AM