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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:

Traffic to top websites has fallen by 11+% in the past five years…Data shows that AI chatbot referral traffic to top media and news websites is roughly 96% lower than traditional Google search. (see Does AI-Assisted Search Mean That No One Will Ever Read The Online Content That I & Others Create Ever Again?).

Ryan Coogler’s revival of The X-Files is happening, and it’s happening before the writer-director’s next Black Panther movie.

We may think we finish with books, but they don’t finish with us.

Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families on Friday said that investigators have found child care facilities at the center of recent fraud allegations were operating as they should.

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam?

The biggest disappointment of 2025 may well have been not what Trump did but how so many let it happen.

Barzilay’s analysis of more than 10,500 children across 21 U.S. sites found that those who received phones at age 12, compared with age 13, had a more than 60 percent higher risk of poor sleep and a more than 40 percent higher risk of obesity.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

Western Hemisphere is like

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 10:01 AM

Wash post editorial pages are truly useless

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 10:17 AM

That’s right, no immigrants or their children had anything to do with any of these advances https://t.co/0IoCgSDFMl

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) December 28, 2025