Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...
Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
Several companies and non-profits are taking these skills that have been fuzzy concepts and working on giving them shape and definition. They’re gathering teachers, developers of tests, business leaders and other experts to break down these skills into smaller skills and then into even smaller subskills and nuances that can serve as steps toward mastery. Communications, for instance, could include negotiating and public speaking as subskills. The resulting outlines of skills and subskills are like a tree branching out from its trunk into smaller and smaller limbs, all with an eye to making them as teachable and testable as math or English.
Creating Communicators and Critical Thinkers: Soon There Will Be A Test For That www.the74million.org/article/crea...
National Shakespeare Day Is On April 23rd – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources For ELLs larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/04/21/n...
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/04/21/t...
Yet Another Study Finds This Program Is Successful For Ninth-Graders – I’m Not Really Sure Why Most Schools Don’t Implement It larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/04/21/y...
Trump steps up a campaign against teaching English to immigrant kids www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The Onion says it has a new deal to take over conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's Infowars media company. If approved, the satirical news website could turn Infowars into a parody of itself. n.pr/4eyN1Cj
This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/04/20/t...
How Did I Not Know That The PBS NewsHour Publishes A “Daily News Lesson” …Daily? larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/04/20/h...
How Professional Wrestling Prepared Linda McMahon for Trump’s Cabinet www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs, with 'Sold' topping the list
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i was just saying to a friend a few days ago that trump's public opinion collapse opens up the field of possibilities in ways that are truly unpredictable. it is one thing for a president to be this popular at the *end* of their turn, but not even two years in?
The American Revolutionary War Began On This Day In 1775 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/04/19/t...
But that’s so easy!
a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure
This guy sure is desperate to keep his job
Schoolmen gonna schoolmen.
What a wonderful surprise! The new season of ‘From’ dropped today! I think it’s been the only true successor to ‘Lost,’ my all-time favorite show
But, as the historian himself makes clear, the war’s causes ran deeper. What made Athens’s surging power so worrisome was its violation of Hellenic norms, in seeking to transform its consensual leadership into a coercive empire. During the Spartans’ debate over whether to go to war, a visiting Athenian delegation justified their own country’s imperial turn: “It was not we who set the example, for it has always been law that the weaker should be subject to the stronger.” The gambit backfired, confirming suspicions of Athens’s imperialist intentions and leading the Spartans and their allies to approve a declaration of war. What made war inevitable, in other words, was not merely the presence of rival great powers, but the fact that one of those powers was abusing the rules of the system that had enabled its rise to greatness in the first place. The temptation to exploit dominance is a recurrent historical impulse — one to which Trump’s America has succumbed. Tired of assuming burdens in the general interest, the United States is now leveraging and abusing its structural dominance for maximal gain, coercing and extracting benefits from even its closest partners. As in Thucydides’ time, this posture promises short-term gains but long-
The Warmongers Have Their Greek History All Wrong www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...
Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
“Podcasting Democracy” Looks Like A Good Curriculum For Teaching The Constitution – It’s From San Francisco’s Public Television Station larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/04/19/p...
I am a critic of 2 much tech in Ed. However, having columnist begin w/private school vignette & focusing much of your critique on Kahoot like games which r super useful formative assessment tools is not way 2 go——You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o... gift link
People are who not teachers may never understand that there are students who etch themselves on our souls.
It’s rare that we can predict who they’ll be, but there’s no mistaking it when it happens. For good or for ill, that’s my kid and their existence impacts how I see my job and the world.
