Larry Ferlazzo

Larry Ferlazzo

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social

A high school teacher for 23 years to ELL & English-proficient students, community organizer for previous 19 years, author or editor of 13 books on education, Ed Week teacher advice columnist, committed - though mediocre - basketball and Pickleball player.

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Trump Calls for Allied Warships to Secure Strait of Hormuz President Donald J. Trump said Saturday that allied nations could deploy warships alongside the United States to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, signaling a potential multinational naval effort to r...

Almost like it was a mistake to alienate all of our allies with idiotic trade wars, and then launch an actual hot war where we needed their help gcaptain.com/trump-calls-...

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U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week

U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week — theonion.com/u-s-suffers-...

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This man KNOWS the pulse of America!

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Ms. Rachel met over zoom with a 5-year-old boy with autism detained at Dilley whose mother says he hasn’t been able to poop in nine days.

After trying to cheer him up on the call, she’s calling for his release this morning.

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I highly recommend engaging with students about their use of digital tools. To a one, they all preferred using analog tools, and were concerned about what computers and phones were doing to their brains.

One girl said, "We've been guinea pigs."

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Suppose Iran dispatched operatives to Mexico, where, from the Texas border, they fired a missile at an American base and, unintentionally but carelessly, demolished a nearby American school, killing 175 people.

What if they then blew up fuel depots, showering a chemical rain on residents? Then struck homes, schools and clinics, as Iran’s leader warned that “death, fire and fury” would so pulverize America that it could never be rebuilt?

In that case, President Trump — and all of us — would howl at outrageous attacks on innocent civilians. And we’d be right.

Does Trump Risk Turning America Into a Rogue State? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/o...

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Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL Eight years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also b…

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/03/14/a...

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A Look Back: Guest Post From Lorin W. Anderson, Co-Author Of The Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy For the next several months, each week I’ll be republishing posts from the past that I think readers might still find useful.  This post first appeared in 2017. Editor’s Note: Lorin W. Anders…

A Look Back: Guest Post From Lorin W. Anderson, Co-Author Of The Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/03/14/a...

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World Poetry Day Is On March 21st – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources The United Nations has declared March 21st to be World Poetry Day. You might be interested in The Best World Poetry Day Resources – Help Me Find More.

World Poetry Day Is On March 21st – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/03/14/w...

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About one-third of Americans — roughly 82 million people — say they have had to make financial sacrifices to cover health care costs. This isn’t just about cutting back on a morning latte or a Netflix subscription; it’s about families skipping meals to afford medication or stretching out their prescriptions to make their medicine last longer.
Not surprisingly, the burden falls most heavily on those without insurance, with 62 percent of Americans making financial trade-offs. Even among the insured, nearly 30 percent reported making similar sacrifices.
More than half of adults living in households earning less than $24,000 report making cuts to pay for health care or medicine. Even in households earning $240,000 or more, about 1.6 million Americans are now forced to make financial trade-offs to cover their medical bills. While the impact is most severe for low-income households, these rising costs are climbing high enough to affect families at nearly every income level.

The enduring truth of Tupac’s ‘money for wars, but can’t feed the poor’ www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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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

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'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.

'This place broke something in us': Kids languish in ICE detention long past 20-day limit www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Wow

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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...

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

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Where have we heard this before?

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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...

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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...

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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...

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“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...

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Immigrants have created an enormous fiscal surplus for the US government … The $14.5 trillion in savings from immigrants is the equivalent of 33 percent of the total inflation-adjusted combined deficits from 1994 to 2023 without immigrants.”
That fellow having brunch at the diner will still get his waffles. But he will miss Jose, and millions like him, in more ways that he can easily imagine.

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

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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.

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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...

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

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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."

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

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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?"

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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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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

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

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