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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 […]

  September 16th is Mexico’s Independence Day. You might be interested in: The Best Resources For Learning About Mexico’s Independence Day The Best Sites For Learning About Mexico, Central & South America

  I’ve just mailed out the September issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter. It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here. Of course, you can also join the tens of thousands of others who subscribe to this blog daily: 7 WAYS YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE TO MY DAILY BLOG POSTS FOR […]

  The PISA results are out today, along with lots of doom-and-gloom headlines about their results. Be skeptical about those news stories, for multiple reasons, not least of which is the fact U.S. scores are being reported with a literal asterisk because OECD, the test’s sponsor, says the U.S. sent incomplete results. There are many, […]

  Today is Ruby Bridges birthday. She is famous for integrating a Louisiana all-white school in 1960. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About Ruby Bridges.

  Blog de Cristina has an excellent post describing how to get transcripts from any video (it would also work for NPR or any other audio), along with sharing ideas on how to use them with students. Check out How to Get the Transcript from an Audio or Video in Seconds and 6 Ideas to […]

  Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here): Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Changes Lives. Some States Gut It Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/b… [image or embed] — Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 5:55 AM A [&…

  Steve Hilton would be an awful Governor of California and, fortunately, he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the election. But he did propose a good idea to help reimburse teachers for money they spend on students. You can read more about his idea at Ed Source’s article, Who should fill […]

  Ten years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in all my Best lists on teaching ELLs. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best […]

  Vocaspeak provides over eighty free pronunciation lessons for English Language Learners. No sign-up is required. Each lesson focuses on one-or-two sounds. You can hear it first, and then record. It will assess you on your accuracy. I’m adding it to The Most Useful Free Or VERY Low Cost AI Tools For Supporting English Language […]

  You’ll want to check out this study, Cultural Relevance at Scale: The Effects of an Ethnic Studies Expansion on Academic Outcomes, that’s NOT behind a paywall. You’ll also want to read Jen Jennings’ comment on it here: If any other intervention produced outcomes of this size – GPA improvements of .24SD & reductions in […]

  I’m adding these two new resources to The Best Resources For Helping Teach About The 250th Anniversary Of The American Revolution: “In Pursuit” has been a series of fairly boring lengthy essays, primarily about U.S. Presidents and their wives.  However, iCivics has managed to take the small kernels of usefulness from some of them […]

  September is Suicide Prevention Month. You might be interested in The Best Resources Helping Educators Learn About Suicide & Warning Signs.

(Editor’s note: Today’s post is the first of a few excerpts from our new book, The Better Teacher’s Toolbox, that I’ll be publishing here over the next two months. You can order the book here, and access more free resources from it here).     PEER TUTORING AND MENTORING Students teaching their classmates or younger […]

  Federal legislation requires schools in the United States to offer lessons related to the U.S. Constitution on U.S. Constitution Day — September 17th of each year. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About The Constitution Of The United States.

  Google just announced that you can use its AI Gemin tool to create music. This is different from its Flow Music tool, which I wrote about when they were calling it something else (see Google Just Created A New AI Tool That Is Perfect For Teachers Of ELL Newcomers). I, like many others, have […]

  Here’s today’s announcement from Google: Google Translate’s live translate brings natural, near-real time audio translations to 70+ languages. Today, we’re introducing two updates to make translations even more seamless. First, because more than a third of live translation sessions now last longer than five minutes, Android users can now keep live translations running in …

  Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You can also see all my “Best” lists on instructional strategies here. Here are this week’s picks: Our last sketchnote – and a massive thanks to the incredible Jen […]

  The anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took place on 9/11 is coming-up. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Help Teach About 9/11.

  The anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took place on 9/11 is coming-up. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Help Teach About 9/11.