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Video: “Most Spoken Languages in the world 1900 – 2025”Study Found That Requiring Later Start Times For High School & Middle School Seems To Have Worked
Breaking the Early Bell: Lessons from the First Statewide Mandate on School Start Times is a new study on California’s law requiring later start times for high school and middle schools. But it did more than get young people to sleep later: Average mental health effects are imprecisely estimated, but boys show significant reductions in sadness, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation, and Hispanic students, who experienced the largest sleep-timing shifts, show parallel reductions in difficulty concentrating; together these patterns are consistent with a dose-response relationship between sleep improvement and mental well-being. Math and English scores in grade 8 improved by approximately 0.08–0.10 standard deviations, with the largest gains among Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students. A within-state analysis using teachers’ commute arrival times as a proxy for pre-policy school start times corroborates these findings, and shows academic gains accumulating over 2023–2025 alongside a suggestive decline in high school dropout rates. The absence of effects on chronic absenteeism rules out an attendance-driven mechanism, pointing instead to the direct cognitive benefits of aligning school schedules with adolescents’ biological rhythms. I’m adding this info to The Best Resources For Helping Teens Learn About The Importance Of Sleep.      Hannah Arendt Was Born On This Day In 1906 – Here Are Resources About Her Life & How I Use Them In Class
Writer Hannah Arendt was born on this day in 1906.
Here are previous posts I’ve written about her: Quote Of The Day: Hannah Arendt & The Origin Of Evil Video: “Hannah Arendt” — The Movie (& The Importance Of Reflection) Two Minutes Of Silence For Sergeant Anton Schmidt PBS Is Airing A Documentary About Hannah Arendt Next Week – Here Are Resources About Her Work
 Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
Ten 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 be interested in all my Best lists on teaching ELLs. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In addition, look for our latest book on teaching ELLs, The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox 2.0. Here are this week’s choices: ELL Tips for Math Teachers is from Colorin Colorado. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Teaching Common Core Math To English Language Learners.  VocabScrabble might too difficult for ELLs. ELL students can watch these two videos and then talk/write about what they saw:   Gallery Walk with Language Ladders is from Helping Multilingual Learners Thrive. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Planning “Learning Stations” – Please Add More. Six Ways to Use Film Titles is from Six Things. ‘They’re Our Kids’: How Teaching English Learners Is Changing is from Ed Week. Behind the Scenes of Using Virtual Reality in Language Classrooms: My Journey as a Research Assistant is from FLT Magazine.  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):
 I’m adding videos about the French student protests to The Best Resources Sharing The History Of Teens Organizing For Justice:  N.Y.C. Leaders Want Integrated Schools. Advocates Want a Plan. is from The NY Times. 
 What happened when Boston students were bused to suburban schools? is from Chalkbeat.
I’m adding this post to The Best Resources For Learning Why School Vouchers Are A Bad Idea:
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