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.
Everything You Need to Remember Before Stranger Things’ Final Season slate.com/culture/2025...
Everything You Need to Remember Before Stranger Things’ Final Season
Nine years, four seasons, and countless characters and storylines later, here’s what to recall.
slate.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Everything You Need to Remember Before Stranger Things’ Final Season slate.com/culture/2025...
How personalized algorithms trick your brain into wrong answers www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
How personalized algorithms trick your brain into wrong answers
Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using algorith...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
How personalized algorithms trick your brain into wrong answers www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
Maybe spend money to support community organizing for the long term and don’t just parachute money and staff in during elections
Democrats spending big to expand coalition in midterms
Democrats spending big to expand coalition in midterms
A new DCCC program will pour eight figures into engaging some demographic groups that swung to the right in 2024.
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Maybe spend money to support community organizing for the long term and don’t just parachute money and staff in during elections
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn www.npr.org/sections/sho...
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn www.npr.org/sections/sho...
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m... gift link
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m... gift link
New owner to open Mississippi barn where Emmett Till was killed as a memorial site apnews.com/article/emme...
New owner to open Mississippi barn where Emmett Till was killed as a memorial site
The new owner of the Mississippi barn where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed is to be opened as a memorial site by 2030.
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
New owner to open Mississippi barn where Emmett Till was killed as a memorial site apnews.com/article/emme...
Research Studies Of The Week larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/25/r...
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…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Research Studies Of The Week larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/25/r...
Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/25/a...
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…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/25/a...
Study Finds That Teachers’ Pay Is Going Backwards larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/25/s...
Study Finds That Teachers’ Pay Is Going Backwards
Ed Source reports at Report: Teacher pay penalty growing about yet another development that is not likely to make the teaching profession look more attractive. You might also be interested i…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Study Finds That Teachers’ Pay Is Going Backwards larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/25/s...
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White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby https://theonion.com/white-house-reclassifies-nursing-as-hobby/
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby https://theonion.com/white-house-reclassifies-nursing-as-hobby/
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This is sick.
"After federal immigration officers in Charlotte saw a man taking photos of them, they chased him nearly 2 miles down a main road and made plans to “smash” into him, video played in court Thursday showed. They broke his window, charged him with a federal felony and accused him of assaulting them."
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This is sick.
Trump administration plan to reduce access to some student loans angers nurses, health care groups apnews.com/article/nurs...
Trump administration plan to reduce access to some student loans angers nurses, health care groups
A coalition of nursing and other health care organizations are pushing back against a Trump administration plan that could limit access to student loans in some cases.
apnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Trump administration plan to reduce access to some student loans angers nurses, health care groups apnews.com/article/nurs...
I just lost a marathon game of Hurry Up Chicken Butt to my toddler granddaughter, and I did not throw the game
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I just lost a marathon game of Hurry Up Chicken Butt to my toddler granddaughter, and I did not throw the game
Viola Fletcher, oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Viola Fletcher, oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111
A century after a White mob destroyed her prosperous Black community in 1921, she became a plaintiff in a symbolic lawsuit seeking reparations.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Viola Fletcher, oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
I wonder if growing wealth inequality since the Great Recession could also be part of the explanation?
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I wonder if growing wealth inequality since the Great Recession could also be part of the explanation?
Perhaps complicated issues may not have simple explanations
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Perhaps complicated issues may not have simple explanations
Yeah, I’m sure Those ‘less requirements’ are going to work out well for students
Linda McMahon: "The states will have less requirements because more money will go in block grants to the states ... I have called for a hard reset of education because we have failed our students."
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Yeah, I’m sure Those ‘less requirements’ are going to work out well for students
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In an all-staff meeting, Ed Secretary Linda McMahon said it was critical to get the "messaging" right: "We are not talking about shutting down the Department of Education. We are talking about returning education to states."
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Trump wants to ‘return education to the states.’ Is that what he’s doing?
Education Secretary Linda McMahon says the Trump administration is “returning education to the states.” But closing the Education Department is not the same thing.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
In an all-staff meeting, Ed Secretary Linda McMahon said it was critical to get the "messaging" right: "We are not talking about shutting down the Department of Education. We are talking about returning education to states."
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
I actually found it a good way for students to see why they shouldn’t outsource their writing to AI.
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I actually found it a good way for students to see why they shouldn’t outsource their writing to AI.
RIP. “You Can Get It If You Really Want” has been, and will be, used in just about every ELL classroom in the world
Jimmy Cliff, a Jamaican music icon who helped expand the popularity of reggae around the world, dies at 81.
Jimmy Cliff, reggae legend and Jamaican icon, dies at 81
"It’s with profound sadness that I share that my husband, Jimmy Cliff, has crossed over due to a seizure followed by pneumonia," his wife, Latifa Chambers, wrote on Instagram.
nbcnews.to
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
RIP. “You Can Get It If You Really Want” has been, and will be, used in just about every ELL classroom in the world
Reposted by Larry Ferlazzo
At ICE, we're respectin' power
Join ICE, I hear they got great hours
There's a sign-on bonus of 50 grand
They're in need of you, needin' to feel like a man
Join ICE, I hear they got great hours
There's a sign-on bonus of 50 grand
They're in need of you, needin' to feel like a man
ICE detained teenaged US citizen during school lunch break, family says
Christian Jimenez, Oregon high school senior, faces possible obstruction charges after traffic stop by immigration agents
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
At ICE, we're respectin' power
Join ICE, I hear they got great hours
There's a sign-on bonus of 50 grand
They're in need of you, needin' to feel like a man
Join ICE, I hear they got great hours
There's a sign-on bonus of 50 grand
They're in need of you, needin' to feel like a man