Today would have been Malcolm X's one-hundred-and-first birthday. You might be interested in The “Best” Resources For Learning & Teaching About Malcolm X.
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  1. Malcolm X Was Born On This Day 101 Years Ago – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
  2. Lots Of “Objects” For Study From The American Revolution
  3. “Storybuilder” Is An Easy Tool For Creating “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories
  4. This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom
  5. This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues
  6. More Recent Articles

Malcolm X Was Born On This Day 101 Years Ago – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

 

Today would have been Malcolm X’s one-hundred-and-first birthday.

You might be interested in The “Best” Resources For Learning & Teaching About Malcolm X.

     

Lots Of “Objects” For Study From The American Revolution

 

In Pursuit of Life, Liberty & Happiness is a new exhibition from the Smithsonian that features 250 Objects; 250 Stories from the American Revolution.

And, if those aren’t enough for you, The Associated Press has their own collection of Revolutionary Objects.

I’m adding them to:

The Best Resources For Helping Teach About The 250th Anniversary Of The American Revolution

The Best Resources For Using “Object Lessons” In History

     

“Storybuilder” Is An Easy Tool For Creating “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories

 

Many students enjoy Choose Your Own Adventure stories, and I’m always on the look-out for easy ways for them to create their own.

Storybuilder is a free tool for creating them, and it seems pretty easy to me.

I’m adding it to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories.

     

This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom

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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 CLASSROOM:

I agree with second two points. In terms of student cheating, I think most teachers will eventually modify all their assignments to make it much less of a problem.

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM

PageMaster lets you create your own “choose-your-own-adventure” story.  I’m adding it to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories.

Pixley is a text-to-animation tool.  You can make three animated videos for free – I made this one.

Open-Source AI Presentation Generator is a free AI-presentation creator – I’ve seen worse.

WordFlippin is an AI tool for learning vocabulary.

IQPrompt uses AI to create data visualizations.

Amazon launches an AI-powered Kindle Translate service for e-book authors is from TechCrunch. I’m adding it to USEFUL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO PLAN TO WRITE NOVELS SOMEDAY.

Advancing meaningful learning in the age of AI is from Oregon State and shares an interesting version of Bloom’s Taxonomy. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom.

Explain Like I’m 5 uses AI to do just that.

I have no idea how useful or useless this will be: Google AI Educator Series

     

This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues

 

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):

Hungry children, canceled benefits: Arizona’s food stamp cuts are a warning for America www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 11, 2026 at 11:13 AM

Cursive Club, Where Students Learn With a Flourish www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 11, 2026 at 6:01 AM

Bezos Family Gives $100 Million for Preschool Education in New York www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/n…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 11, 2026 at 6:52 PM

Inside LAUSD’s alleged $22-million money-laundering scheme, ‘the largest’ in district history www.latimes.com/california/s…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 12, 2026 at 7:35 AM

Pediatrics group issues new guidance on recess for the first time in 13 years
apnews.com/article/rece…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 11, 2026 at 8:09 PM

School District Refuses to Sign Federal Agreement, Change Trans Student Rules www.edweek.org/leadership/s…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 12, 2026 at 9:14 AM

🔥MUST-WATCH: “You’re all cowards. I do not forgive you. Thank you for teaching me no one will stand up for me besides myself.”

The 🦸🏻‍♀️student Keith Ervin called “hot” shows the WASHINGTON COUNTY school board 🐔 what real leadership looks like.

emails: www.wcde.org/page/school-…

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) May 12, 2026 at 6:54 AM

California schools could get billions more in Newsom’s May budget revision is from Ed Source.

Democrats Challenge Plan to Dismantle Office for English Learners is from Ed Week.

N.Y.U. Students Object to Speaker Who Calls Their Generation ‘Coddled’ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 13, 2026 at 10:23 AM

Really interesting what article says about Compton———Your School District Is Probably Scoring Worse Than 10 Years Ago www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u… gift link

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 13, 2026 at 3:09 AM

Kids’ test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains www.npr.org/2026/05/13/n…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 13, 2026 at 3:33 AM

Writing the Trump Years Into History www.newyorker.com/news/america…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 12, 2026 at 9:53 AM

The company that operates online learning system Canvas says it has struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack.

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— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) May 13, 2026 at 10:40 AM

This is a helpful piece from @edsource.org highlighting details of what two districts are doing ——Amid national ‘reading recession,’ some California districts’ reading and math scores are on the rise edsource.org/2026/califor…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 13, 2026 at 12:05 PM

 

University of Chicago Waives Tuition for Families Making Under $250,000 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/u…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 14, 2026 at 9:19 AM

Look Up Your School District’s Test Scores www.nytimes.com/interactive/…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 14, 2026 at 6:01 AM

Bonamici to McMahon: “You’re the Secretary of Education, and you’re claiming that teaching is not a professional degree. Do you consider educators unprofessional?”

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 14, 2026 at 8:37 AM

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) May 14, 2026 at 9:13 AM

I’m adding these two posts to The Best Resources For Learning About The Role Of Private Foundations In Education Policy:

‘It’s incredible how much money is being lit on fire in pursuit of dumb ideas’ is a good description of Gates Foundation education funding over the past twenty years

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 14, 2026 at 11:33 AM

Yes, and it also sounds like they’re not actually offering much ch money – it sounds like they’re primarily offering use of their AI model

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 14, 2026 at 11:19 AM

Linda McMahon defends dismantling the Education Department, shifting its work is from NPR.

I’m adding this post to RESOURCES ON CHALLENGES NATIVE AMERICANS FACE IN SCHOOLS:

Native kids with disabilities were held in wooden boxes. Sweeping reforms are coming www.npr.org/2026/05/14/n…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM

 

This was an interesting exchange at House Ed this morning. Asked if states can set rules for scholarship groups under the federal tax credit, Linda McMahon said yes.

That’s not how conservative education advocates have envisioned the program working.

www.chalkbeat.org/2026/05/14/s…

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— Erica Meltzer (@ericameltzer.bsky.social) May 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM

Khanmigo is “is about as close to a best-case scenario for A.I. in education” is not the endorsement the author thinks it is ——OpenAI and Khan Academy Made a Chatbot. What Can We Learn? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/b… gift link

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) May 16, 2026 at 5:11 AM

Colleges got more rural students to apply. The challenge is getting them to attend is from NPR.

U.S. school districts worry it could get even more expensive to prepare a meal under new federal dietary guidelines, as they also contend with cuts to programs that helped them buy local food.

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— NPR (@npr.org) May 16, 2026 at 11:37 AM

Maybe School Should be a Game is by Michael Pershan. I’m adding it to The Best Resources Showing Why We Need To Be “Data-Informed” & Not “Data-Driven”

     

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