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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:

“It isn’t essential that they need to have three years of instruction about phonics in 128 sessions,” [Mark Seidenberg] offered by way of an example in an interview with Education Week. “There’s opportunity costs, and if you do it too much, it’s going to take away from other things that kids need to learn.”

There’s a strong positive relationship between income and gifted identification, which is reversed when looking at special education.

More than a third of boys (36%) participated in gambling activity in the past 12 months, according to the report, which draws from a nationally representative sample of 1,017 boys ages 11 to 17 in the United States surveyed in July 2025. See The Best Resources For Using “Reactance” With Students To Help Them Learn About How Corporations Try To Manipulate Them.

This recent push for “AI” is yet another grandiose and grotesque experiment on children – one that no one asked for and few want.

Looking at the averages for Dimension 2 surveys, they tell us that only around four in ten students feel their teacher knows when something is upsetting them. This statistic is from the UK, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s similar in the U.S.  See THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING HOW TO PROMOTE A SENSE OF “BELONGING” AT SCHOOL

In fact, private schooling is the most expensive placebo in America.

“The movement — that’s the hero.”

Most states maintained or slightly increased school funding levels from 2022 to 2023, but more than 10 reduced the percentage of money allocated to high-poverty districts — reversing a decade-long trend, according to an Education Law Center analysis of the most recent data available. 

They found that the number of teens getting insufficient sleep, defined as seven hours or less a night, rose from 69% in 2007 to 78% in 2023, the most recent year for which data was available. See The Best Resources For Helping Teens Learn About The Importance Of Sleep

If you’re a teenager in crisis, you don’t need to seek out dark material; the algorithms study what you linger on and serve you more content like it.

Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways

“Power hates being mocked more than it hates being challenged,” he said.

I’m sorry, I suspect that just about anyone with reasonable knowledge of current events and history could have predicted this. Perhaps they should have consulted with some social studies teachers?

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) March 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM

“Democracy does not protect itself”

— a random 11th grader today who happens to be a prophet and something I am thinking of tattooing on my forehead

— Shannon Carey (@scmaestra.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 4:39 PM

Great. It’s not like life isn’t challenging enough now for ELLs and their families – now Republicans, if they aren’t already, are going to start attacking them all for being “undocumented.”

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 1:18 PM

I just love to read columns from Stanford professors who, according to the web, earn an average of $280,000 yearly, criticize K-12 educators for wanting too much money —–California’s Kitchen Nightmare: Union Demands Rise as Enrollment Falls www.the74million.org/article/cali…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 1:24 PM

In community organizing, we’d say ‘there are no permanent enemies and no permanent allies, only changing self interests” but this would be very , very hard for me to do

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) March 19, 2026 at 4:50 AM

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