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mjimages / Pixabay Sixty-three years ago today four African-American girls were killed when their church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.

Lots of research has found that outside-of-school factors have huge influences on academic achievement, and that education can’t solve society’s inequities.

Rank In World lets you compare any two countries in the world on a ton of different data points.

The United Nations has declared September 26th to be International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

I’ve begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources or other related “Best” lists.

(Editor’s note: Today’s post is the latest of a few excerpts from our new book, The Better Teacher’s Toolbox, that I’ll be publishing here over the next two months.

ADGC / Pixabay I learned about this poem on NPR this morning, and can’t believe I had never heard of it before.

YvonneScholz / Pixabay I’ve previously heard a little about the PQS Model for providing feedback to student writing, but Eva Buyuksimkesyan has written an exceptionally clear and helpful explanation of how to apply it to ELL learners at her post, How to G…

piviso / Pixabay The United Nations has declared September 27th to be World Tourism Day.

WikiImages / Pixabay On this date in 2013, Voyager I became the first human-made object to leave our solar system.

For the next several months, each week I’ll be republishing posts from the past that I think readers might still find useful.

geralt / Pixabay 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: Voice to Picture won’t actually produce a photo but, i…

I mentioned Anton a year or two ago in passing as a site that ELL teachers might want to check out.

I have questioned the hype for “high-dosage tutoring” for years – because of its cost, the inability to find and train adult tutors, and the challenge of integrating separate tutoring sessions during the school day.

TheDigitalArtist / Pixabay I’m adding these videos to A Beginning List Of The Best Resources For Teaching About Artificial Intelligence:

I’ve shared a fair amount about the dangers of zero-sum thinking (see The Dangers Of “Zero Sum Thinking” In The World, Including In Schools).

Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here.

Mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Ten years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed

geralt / Pixabay I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful.

Clker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay September 16th is Mexico’s Independence Day.

geralt / Pixabay I’ve just mailed out the September issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter.

geralt / Pixabay The PISA results are out today, along with lots of doom-and-gloom headlines about their results.

falco / Pixabay Today is Ruby Bridges birthday.