IFL Recommends for March 2024 

This month’s recommendation includes three diverse topics—a podcast from psychotherapist Stephen Quinlan that seeks to help anxious children, a list of 25 picture book autobiographies for various ages, and a set of Pi Day resources, including the history of Pi and...

IFL Recommends for February 2024

This month’s recommendations include a documentary about Freedom House, America’s first EMT service composed of Black men and women recruited from the Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood; an interview with poet, best-selling author, and NAACP Image Award finalist...

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IFL Recommends December 2023

This month’s recommendation contains an article and a press release about the benefits of being multilingual and a podcast about the importance of listening to teachers’ voices.Laurie Speranzo Mathematics FellowLaurie says, “I am fortunate to be working this year in...

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IFL Recommends November 2023

Hey everyone! We’re back for the 2023-2024 school year. This year we are kicking off with a cluster of IFL Recommends and in two weeks we will publish our first new article of the year.

This month’s recommendations include a “creepy” short story, a crime novel, and an article about an elementary school classroom. We hope you love them!

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IFL Recommends 6/20/23

If you are a visual thinker who enjoys data-driven insights, check out the chartr newsletter. Published several times a week, these five-minute reads look into data in business, tech, entertainment, and society.

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IFL Recommends 5/30/23

This week’s IFL Recommends comes from Laurie Speranzo, a math fellow at the IFL who lives in Boston and was recently singing the praises of the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning, the second-tallest educational building in the world.

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