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I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful. Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful. And they may, or may not, be directly connected to education. I may also include my own comments or related links. This regular post will join my other regular ones on teaching ELLs, education policy, Artificial Intelligence, infographics, and Pinterest highlights, not to mention sharing of my regular Education Week posts. Here are this week’s sentences: Ninety percent of U.S. four-year colleges and universities will not require applicants for Fall 2027 admissions to submit ACT/SAT scores according to a new tally by FairTest, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing. She said simple things like putting up “pro-immigrant welcoming posters are a good way to show students that their existence at school is also important and helps instill trust.” Many of us confuse consuming political news, engaging on social media and participating in group chats with doing the things that we, as individuals, can do to help change our country’s trajectory. But without evidence that assigning full books produces better academic outcomes than excerpts, the matter largely comes down to experience and preference. See I Think It’s Okay Not To Teach Whole Novels In High School “The tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We do not see it that way,” “We have been surprised before in history. We can be surprised again. Indeed, we can do the surprising.” See THE BEST – & MOST INTERESTING – RESOURCES FOR STUDYING HISTORY Normalize apologizing! Apologizing for things you’ve done/gotten wrong is important both for personal growth and for providing a social baseline for right and wrong. See The Best Resources On The Importance Of Saying “I’m Sorry” The evidence behind eliminating tracking, creating collaborative planning time and implementing more relevant instruction isn’t speculative; these moves can produce real gains for students and, notably, for teacher retention. “This is why I don’t surround myself with political consultants,” she said. “I surround myself with organizers.” California’s mandate requiring later start times for middle and high schools is already yielding results, with students sleeping more, reporting better mental health and scoring higher math and English scores, according to a new study. Mice seek information even if it does not correlate with receiving a reward—a positive payout such as food and water—and they will, in fact, give up a reward in exchange for information, according to a study published in Nature Neuroscience this July. I think we’re also in this race where, like, some teachers are using AI to generate their lesson plans and assignments and their quizzes, and then kids are using AI to do them and then teachers are using AI to grade them. So we just have bots talking to bots. And is that what we want education to look like?
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September 16th is Mexico’s Independence Day. You might be interested in: The Best Resources For Learning About Mexico’s Independence Day The Best Sites For Learning About Mexico, Central & South America  Just Sent-Out Free Monthly Email Newsletter geralt / Pixabay
I’ve just mailed out the September issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter. It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here. Of course, you can also join the tens of thousands of others who subscribe to this blog daily: 7 WAYS YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE TO MY DAILY BLOG POSTS FOR FREE  PISA Results Are Out Today & They Don’t Necessarily Tell Us What The Headlines About It Say They Do geralt / Pixabay
The PISA results are out today, along with lots of doom-and-gloom headlines about their results. Be skeptical about those news stories, for multiple reasons, not least of which is the fact U.S. scores are being reported with a literal asterisk because OECD, the test’s sponsor, says the U.S. sent incomplete results. There are many, many issues with PISA – the role of student motivation around a test that means nothing to their futures, skewed sample sizes, and many others. The best piece to read about this year’s test scores is, without a doubt, Matt Barnum’s U.S. moves up in PISA test score rankings because other countries are doing worse. It’s also worth reading this Ed Week piece, especially the last section. You might also want to read The NY Times piece just because of the ridiculous quote from the OECD saying U.S. scores aren’t great because, unlike in other countries, we don’t get the best people as teachers (I’m not joking – he actually said that!). Here are a few skeptical pieces about PISA from previous years that continue to be relevant to this batch of scores: PISA as a Mirror? Only If You Look (how student motivation skews international comparisons) is From Experience to Meaning. Wales Pisa results: ‘Little will be learned’ by Dylan Wiliam at the BBC. Don’t Read Too Much Into It: What Brexit and U.S. Election Surprises Can Teach Us about PISA by Yong Zhao. ‘Ignore Pisa entirely,’ argues top academic is from tes. Why Americans should not panic about international test results appeared in The Washington Post. What the latest standardized school tests really tell us is from The L.A. Times. Might The PISA Results Finally Stop The Complaining About Physical School Closures?
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 Today Is Ruby Bridges Birthday – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources falco / Pixabay
Today is Ruby Bridges birthday. She is famous for integrating a Louisiana all-white school in 1960. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About Ruby Bridges.  More Recent Articles
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