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I thought readers might, or might not, find this new weekly post useful.

I’m planning on highlighting several sentences, with links to their sources, that I found 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:

There’s a business model built on teacher exhaustion, oversimplification, and selling certainty to people who don’t have time to breathe.

Among 14 other surveys conducted this year, 13 showed Democrats with an edge on education among voters, according to my recent survey of surveys.

One of the shifts in understanding I seek for students is for them to realize that bad sentences are not (primarily) a writing skill issue, but rather a sign of not yet realized thinking.

A strong majority of U.S. public high schools experienced declines in the attendance and learning of students from immigrant families.

Officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.

“Factors outside of school might play a considerable role” in learning declines. Ya’ think?

“When scores are persistently low, states have a responsibility to do more than simply apply pressure on such schools; they must improve conditions in these schools if they want to see outcomes improve,” commented Pedro Noguera, dean of the education school at the University of Southern California.

“The highest income 20% of districts have lost more public school students than the other 80% combined,” they found, “with these lower income districts having largely recovered.”

In monthly meetings, of around 75 minutes duration, teachers report back to their colleagues about what they have done in their classrooms to improve their practice, get the support of their colleagues for persisting with these difficult changes, hear about new ideas for improving practice, and commit themselves to specific improvements in their practice for the coming month.

“This was a state-sponsored attack on teachers because of what they expressed privately to their friends and colleagues and family,” Randi Weingarten, the president of the national American Federal of Teachers, said.

I will always remember five years ago today teaching a distance leaning US History class to English Language Learner Newcomers. We were studying the Civil War and neither they or I could understand how the Confederate flag was being waved in the US Capitol

— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 12:13 PM

James Baldwin – on “loving” one’s country: “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

— Brent Staples (@bstaples.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 6:32 AM

this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) January 5, 2026 at 3:52 PM

This is how middle school boys imagine running a country one day https://t.co/LaWqBx50c3

— mason (@onehandpolitics) January 3, 2026

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) January 7, 2026 at 3:52 PM

These people sound like the White Citizens Councils criticizing civil rights demonstrators

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 7:05 AM