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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:
The LAUSD policies aren’t an attempt to hurt schools with higher numbers of white students, but rather to raise up those schools that have larger numbers of students who historically have lacked opportunities — to meet the outcomes those wealthy-neighborhood schools already have.
Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.
Educators cannot solve immigration policy, but they can and do push back against its harm: by showing up for students, telling the truth, and ensuring that belonging is not conditional.
So many people started with the Large Language Model as the solution and worked backwards to define a problem.
It [AI] can be incredibly helpful for neurodivergent kids.
A Spanish teacher, an immigrant herself, has been trying to set up a system whereby local families with citizenship make a four-week commitment to be the primary point of contact for one of a hundred and fifty families who are sheltering at home. See The “Best” Lesson Ideas For Teaching About The Protests & Killings In Minneapolis
Nearly 75% of teens said that no matter the policy, their school still lets them keep their phones with them. See The Best Posts On Student Cellphone Use In Class — Please Contribute More
“It seems that these curriculums are designed to build knowledge and they don’t develop meaning, and so then why read about the Civil War or about insects?”
“It’s sort of strange to be comparing [Alpha’s] students to students from a wide variety of very challenging circumstances, rather than comparing their students to other students in elite private schools,” Reich said.
They found that the introduction of Communities In Schools led to higher test scores, lower truancy rates, and fewer suspensions in Texas schools.
One of the key strategies of the civil rights movement was, through nonviolent protests, provoke the racist police so public could see violent reaction on tv, and the Trump administration people obviously know nothing about history & how it’s repeating itself.
“You should be kind, helpful and caring like normal police, not dangerous, scary and stealing people.”
She realized her students couldn’t always discern whether what AI generated was valuable or not, and they still needed to build foundational skills, like how to write a thesis and construct an argument.
Classroom management language comprises 24% of teacher talk…
I think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account Libs of TikTok, has spent the days following Alex Pretti’s killing doxxing ordinary working people — teachers, nurses, school board members — for speaking out against federal immigration officials or expressing sympathy for Pretti.
Our research shows that clearly stating that you want to learn about your counterpart’s perspective significantly improves how that person evaluates both you and your arguments.
Liam’s case, Biery wrote, originated in “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.”
If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from.
“Mobilizing is about getting people to do a thing, and organizing is about getting people to become the kind of people who do what needs to be done.” When I was a community organizer, we understand that the most important work was organizing. See The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change.
This would be hilarious if only the reality was not a tragedy for kids
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 23, 2026 at 8:29 AM
ICE agent: “We’re gonna come back for your whole family, okay?”
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 24, 2026 at 7:09 AM
“If we don’t risk our safety now and here, they will just keep killing us,” Thissen said.
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 3:37 PM
The national rate of pediatric firearm deaths increased by 54% from 2004 to 2023, with most U.S. kids now living in states where firearm injury is the leading cause of death.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) January 28, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Finally got around to a bit of research I’d been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn’t masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus…
— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) January 29, 2026 at 10:05 AM
www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u…
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) February 1, 2026 at 4:53 AM
See The Best Sites To Learn About Anne Frank.
Whatever I think about Joel Klein overselling outcomes, this email is rattling my reality. Epstein & Klein met 8x in 2013. What did Faith Kates (cofounder modeling/trafficking agency) mean by “Joel Klein is never going to say he knew what was happening and will quit, and Rupert will take the fall?”
— Jen Jennings (@jenjennings.bsky.social) January 31, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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