Divyansh100 / Pixabay There are many different ways you can subscribe to this blog for free and access the average three posts each day: You can subscribe to my Flipboard. Subscribe by a RSS Reader. One popular RSS Readers is Feedly (though there are many others). You can read about Feedly in this New York Times…
Charnchai / Pixabay It’s Geography Awareness Week: Each year more than 100,000 Americans actively participate in Geography Awareness Week. Established by presidential proclamation more than 25 years ago, this annual public awareness program encourages citizens young and old to think and learn about the significance of place and how we affect and are affected…
Where a student chooses to go to college will affect their life in countless ways. A lot goes into these decisions. One major consideration: Students often want to know what their life would be like at a given school. To help answer this big question, The Hechinger Report developed a tool that tracks various factors…
It breaks my heart when the costs of college-level textbooks are labeled as “junk fees.” Or, when people complain that today’s textbooks are “overstuffed, chopped-up monstrosities” that are boring and do little to advance student learning. Yet all this angst over textbooks misses these crucial facts: Textbooks provide a carefully curated body of knowledge. Textbooks…
johnhain / Pixabay As if our students’ parents don’t have enough to be worried about when Donald Trump becomes President again, it’s also a safe bet that he will re-implement his “public charge rule” (see The Best Resources For Learning How The Trump Administration’s New Public Charge Rule Will Negatively Affect Our Students &…
Many educators – and others – are leaving Twitter and migrating over to Blue Sky and, to a lesser extent, Threads. You can find me at both (on Threads, I’m “mrferlazzo”), as well as at LinkedIn. Teacher social media is all over the place right now, though it appears that Blue Sky might be…
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Mohamed_hassan / Pixabay 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 to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing…
(I’m republishing my best posts from the first half of the year. You can see the entire list of them here) Mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Here are the best “Best” lists published in the first half of this year: EVEN MORE BEST (& FREE) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SITES FOR THE CLASSROOM – 2023 MY 9…
Fred Ross, Sr. was a legendary organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation and the United Farmworkers Union, and Cesar Chavez’s mentor. Every year for the past eleven years I “give” a book he wrote to readers of this blog as a holiday gift. His late son, Fred Ross, Jr., was also an extraordinary organizer who…