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Though I’ve never been a big fan of Khan Academy (see The Best Posts About The Khan Academy), I do know many teachers and students have found it helpful and, for that, I applaud Sal Kahn.

There are a number of things, though, that I don’t applaud him for, including his pronouncements about Artificial Intelligence (see AI Can Be Helpful To Teachers But, Despite What Sal Khan Says, It Will Not Be “the biggest Positive Transformation That Education Has Ever Seen” and Videos: “60 Minutes” Does An Infomercial For Sal Kahn & AI).

His op ed in today’s NY Times, The 1 Percent Solution to the Looming A.I. Job Crisis, though, appears to be his worst contribution to the AI public discussion.

I’m going to summarize it here in my own words and, I kid you not, I am very confident that it is an accurate description:

AI is going to result in the loss of many jobs.  Because of that, AI companies should donate one percent of their profits to a nonprofit organization to coordinate online job training to retrain those displaced workers so they can get new jobs.  This will take care of the problem.

He doesn’t say who that nonprofit should be, and who should be providing the online job training, but I think you and I can make a pretty good guess about who he has in mind.

On so many levels, this op ed continues Kahn’s commitment to magical thinking about everything and anything related to AI.

Here’s my idea: How about we regulate and tax the hell out of tech companies and, I don’t know, provide most of those funds to existing community colleges, universities, and nonprofit job training agencies with track records, along with increasing unemployment benefits to laid-off workers?

     

As regular readers know, I’ve been posting my concerns about the Trump’s administration’s impact on ELL student enrollment.

At Carol Salva’s invitation, I’ll be moderating a discussion on this topic sponsored by the National Association of English Learner Program Administrators (NAELPA) on January 13th.

Here’s how they describe it:

What should program leaders do as the number of immigrant students decreases? Award-winning educator, Larry Ferlazzo, will interview a panel who will offer insight on programming and funding. Participants will leave with practical resources they can use immediately to respond to this current trend.

You can register here.

     

Larry Ferlazzo’s 10 Education Predictions for 2026 is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns.

“Gazing into his crystal ball, Larry Ferlazzo divines what’s ahead for education next year.”

     

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How to Teach With No Resources is a great post from The Barefoot TEFL Teacher.

It’s so good, in fact, that if I was still teaching high school I’d print it out and have it handy on my desk.

It’s filled with simple, and effective, instructional ideas that require … no resources and next-to-no prep.

I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR ZERO-PREP ELL LESSONS.

     

There have been a variety of “ed in review” posts over the past couple of weeks.

Here are my choices for the best:

The Best and Worst Education News of 2025 is my own Ed Week post.

12 Charts That Defined Education in 2025 is from The 74.

The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2025 is from Edutopia.

The most popular TED Talks of 2025 — and what’s next for 2026 is from TED.

In a year that shook the foundations of education research, these 10 stories resonated in 2025 is from The Hechinger Report.

Jealousy List: A Shout-Out to 19 Education Stories We Admired in 2025 is from The 74.

Your year in teaching, wrapped is from The OER Project.

The 10 Most Commented-On Writing Prompts of 2025 is from The NY Times Learning Network.

The Opinions EdWeek Readers Care About: The Year’s 10 Most-Read is from Ed Week.

The Education Wisdom Our Readers Keep Revisiting: Top 10 is from Ed Week.  Six of these are posts from my Ed Week blog!