Larry Ferlazzo

Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With WASHINGTON—Saying critics of the missile strike that killed at least 175 civilians were dodging a fundamental question, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday demanded to know what girls were doing ...

“In all this talk about who was responsible and how this happened, are we just going to ignore the fact that girls were allowed to learn?” said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

'This place broke something in us': Kids languish in ICE detention long past 20-day court limit The Trump administration has detained more than 900 children — including a boy with severe autism — for longer than allowed under a decades-old legal settlement.

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Wow

If dems don’t break up the maga media conglomerates as soon as they can they have no sense of self preservation bsky.app/profile/atru...

Color blind and merit based bsky.app/profile/mger...

Where have we heard this before?

Teacher Action Research ... in Action (Opinion) Educators not only consume research, they take part in the processes in their daily practice.

Teacher action research in ….action is new @edweek.org post www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Research Studies Of The Week I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue…

Research Studies Of The Week larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/03/13/r...

The Best Resources For Using “Reactance” With Students To Help Them Learn About How Corporations Try To Manipulate Them As previous research has shown, preaching to young people about the dangers of gambling, sweets, AI, etc. are not very effective strategies. However, if you show them how corporations are ma…

The Best Resources For Using “Reactance” With Students To Help Them Learn About How Corporations Try To Manipulate Them larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/03/13/t...

“Zep” Is A Video Game-Like Site Similar To Wayground, Blooket & Kahoot Zep is a new-to-me learning game site that has lots of similarities to the usual suspects – Wayground, Blooket and Kahoot. I first heard about when reading a study that found playing i…

“Zep” Is A Video Game-Like Site Similar To Wayground, Blooket & Kahoot larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/03/13/z...

Welcome to the resistance, George Will——America needs immigrants as much as they need liberty’s blessings www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gas is six dollars a gallon. But at least now they’re not tearing down a statue of a Confederate general that I’ve never heard of in a city that I’ve never been to.

St. Patrick’s Day Is On March 17th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources St. Patrick’s Day is on March 17th. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About St. Patrick’s Day (and April Fool’s Day).

St. Patrick’s Day Is On March 17th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/03/12/s...

Tech bros are and continue to be a scourge to the world.

Talarico: "As a former educator, as someone who fought for students & kids in the halls of the Texas Capitol, it makes me sick to my stomach to see our foreign policy take the lives of innocent children in Iran & in the Middle East. It has to end. We need a foreign policy that reflects our values."

You can't make deals if everyone knows you reneg on deals.

Talarico: "There's another war in the Middle East. There's a cost of living crisis. There's a secret pedophile ring & no one has been prosecuted. So the people responsible are trying to distract us with the same old culture wars ... what do the American people care more about -- pronouns or prices?"

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?

This tale of a Chicago school book ban was inspired by true events Librarian Jarrett Dapier's graphic novel tells a fictionalized account of real-life events in 2013 that restricted access to Marjane Satrapi's memoir Persepolis in Chicago Public Schools.

Librarian Jarrett Dapier's graphic novel tells a fictionalized account of real-life events in 2013 that restricted access to Marjane Satrapi's memoir Persepolis in Chicago Public Schools. n.pr/4sGS3jR

“At least I will until I have the opportunity to regift it”

Anyone who has ever studied any military history of the past 150 years learns this as Lesson One.

(This group notably excludes Hegseth, Vance, Rubio, Trump.)

So much for freedom, democracy, soft power, human rights, the media, etc.

We Need To Talk More About Schools As Mediating Institutions larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2024/07/05/a...

Trump only got into Wharton after his family pulled strings and got him an interview with an official who did a "special favor" to the family. A Wharton prof later said he was "the dumbest goddamn student" he ever had.

So, yes, his admission does say a lot about how smart he is.

Imagine what his, and Republican, poll numbers would be now if he had focused targeted deportations only on violent criminals (like he had said he would), hadn't instituted tariffs, and hadn't attacked Iran.

One for the ages

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Trump has tremendous difficulty with principled people (even if as with the Iranian regime, the principles are bad). He assumes everyone is a transactional fraud like him. Works well with rich Americans and poorly with idealists of any stripe

I will use that word to describe what I’m doing after I totally screw it up

In rural America, a teacher pipeline from abroad starts to dry up Rural school districts say the Trump administration’s visa changes are jeopardizing a key source of teachers.

In rural America, a teacher pipeline from abroad starts to dry up

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