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Sentences Of The Week | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

Sentences Of The Week | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

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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:

But to keep Gen Z teachers in the long term, a majority of such teachers in the EdWeek survey and other studies say they need more flexible work structures, such as four-day weeks and more planning time during the workday.

One of the things that we do so frequently with kids is say, “Don’t do this,” but then we don’t tell them what we want them to do. 

What is clear when one looks across East and West, North and South, is that the states that have built lasting educational success—whether Massachusetts in the 1990s or Mississippi today—have done so through patient, systemic investment in schools and in the people who work in them. 

Research shows that eating school breakfast is associated with a variety of positive outcomes for students, including improved academic performance and classroom behavior and better health outcomes.

Roughly one in five student interactions with generative artificial intelligence on school technology involved cheating, self-harm, bullying, and other problematic behaviors, according to data collected and analyzed by Securly, a company offering internet filtering and other safety services.

And yet the people who wave their hands and talk about some magical “AI” future insist they’re the realists; and the ones who want to fund schools and not the military, who want to hire teachers not buy tech gadgets, who want to build a future that cares for people not profits – we’re the dreamers; we’re the crazy ones.

Designated e-readers can mitigate some of these problems, but research suggests that the absence of a third dimension—the fact that we do not physically turn pages—makes remembering what we read harder. You might be interested in The Best Resources On Which Is Best – Reading Digitally Or Reading Paper?

Doucleff explains this with science—people who seem to have strong willpower, she writes, are actually just better at constructing environments that remove temptation, and that’s what we should do for our kids and ourselves, with screens and food.

Routine digital exposure in instructional contexts is associated with weaker academic outcomes in a dose-response relationship.

Student engagement measures proved to be key predictors of absence patterns.

Third graders who had to repeat a grade in Texas were far less likely to graduate from high school or earn a good living as young adults, nearly two decades later.

Reliance on AI among faculty is also on the rise, with observers pointing to the dystopian possibility that the college experience may soon be reduced to AI systems grading AI-generated homework – “a conversation between two robots”.

“What tends not to [work] is, without throwing them under the bus again, sort of the approach that LAUSD had which was: let’s get out there quickly, let’s make it splashy, let’s make sure that we scale immediately,” Aguilar said.

Political pressure is prompting more than a third of social studies teachers to axe some topics from their lessons, according to a new survey.

“A war that was meant to prevent Iran from having a bomb could be the war that actually pushed Iran beyond the Rubicon to reach a bomb,” said Danny Citronowicz, an analyst at the Atlantic Council, a think tank, and former head of the Iran branch of Israel’s military intelligence.

He and his colleagues found that “teens who have very little screen time are actually seeing a greater rise in insufficient sleep than teens with heavy screen use,” he says.

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM

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