Larry Ferlazzo
@Larryferlazzo
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A high school teacher for 23 years & a community organizer for 19 years. Author or Editor of 13 books; Education Week teacher advice columnist.
Sacramento, CA
Joined December 2008
Don’t rush into anything——Hakeem Jeffries endorses Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor https://t.co/OszENjJxrK via @nbcnews
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Jeffries' counterpart in Congress and a fellow New York Democrat, has so far declined to endorse anyone in the mayoral race.
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If you are a teacher who reports your student or their parent/guardian to ICE, you are a terrible human being and have no business being an educator. https://t.co/lw9SVLDP1m
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The Case for Whole Books
slate.com
You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.
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A smuggled book changed his life. Now he’s built 500 prison libraries.
washingtonpost.com
Reginald Dwayne Betts was locked up as a teenager for carjacking. Books were his escape, and he went on to be a poet, lawyer and founder of Freedom Reads.
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Senators demand Linda McMahon ask DHS to stop immigration enforcement near schools
nbcnews.com
The letter says that “if society can agree that alcohol, tobacco and drugs should be kept at least 1,000 feet away from our schools,” then “violent DHS tools and tactics also belong on that list.”
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Bestselling author Jodi Picoult pushes back after her musical is canceled by Indiana high school https://t.co/saZPaLzNxm
apnews.com
Jodi Picoult faces bans on both her books and a musical based on her novel “Between the Lines.” The superintendent of Mississinewa High School in Indiana canceled the musical last week, citing...
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This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org
At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSRO…
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This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here): White H…
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When you’ve lost George Will———When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and Army veteran
washingtonpost.com
George Retes is suing the federal government for unconstitutional detention.
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Underfunded Schools Forced To Cut Past Tense From Language Programs
theonion.com
WASHINGTON—Faced with ongoing budget crises, underfunded schools nationwide are increasingly left with no option but to cut the past tense—a grammatical construction traditionally used to relate all...
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Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
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Hospitals aren’t required to tell patients when they’re part of the 340B program. There’s no sign on the door, no disclosure on the bill and no guarantee that the discount ever reaches the person paying. The program was built for transparency, but the incentives took over, and
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Whenever I see these charts, I think they cast an interesting light on the “struggles of men” discourse. Black men, Asian men, and Hispanic men are all graduating at higher rates than ever. White men have pleateaued but aren’t falling back in absolute, only relative, terms.
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Suburban Baltimore County school district's AI-powered gun detection system mistakes a bag of chips in a kid's pocket for a gun, cops pull up with guns pointed, order him to the ground and throw cuffs on him.
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Are you a teacher who needs help with time management or goal setting? Look no further than this interview with award-winning educator Valerie Bolling. #EWOpinion @LarryFerlazzo
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In her new book, educator Valerie Bolling offers tips for helping students set and carry out goals.
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Mom says slain Illinois woman wouldn’t want to be tied to Trump’s immigration blitz
washingtonpost.com
The mother of Katie Abraham, who the Trump administration has made the face of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, said she ‘would not have wanted this.’
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Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law https://t.co/lCNRbM7JKI via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
The San Francisco district attorney said in an interview that she came up with the strategy after seeing federal agents repeatedly roughing up people in Los Angeles and Chicago.
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A Look Back: Getting A Special Wristband Is Not The Best Road To Greater Student Motivation
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org
For the next several months, each day I’ll be republishing a post from the past that I think readers might still find useful. This post first appeared in 2013. An article about a Florida hi…
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Video: “Most Spoken Languages in the world”
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org
inspireus / Pixabay This is an interesting video:
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Study Finds That Students – At Least, Younger Ones – Learn More From Videos Than Reading
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The “simple” view of learning from illustrated texts and videos is a new study (not behind a paywall) finding that fifth-and-sixth-graders learned more from watching science videos than read…
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