Dangerously Irrelevant

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in September 2023… The Moonsteel Crown, Stephen Deas (fantasy) Ever In a Pirate’s Eye, Chloe Garner (fantasy) The Legend of Black Jack, A. R. Witham (f...

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If a certain kind of teaching failed to produce learning the first time, why will it suddenly produce it the second time? In many cases the children, now ashamed and angry as well as bored and co...

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2023/09/lets-double-down-on-math-and-reading.html

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in August 2023… How Children Learn, John Holt (education) Recoding America, Jennifer Pahlka (technology) Divided Allegiance, Elizabeth Moon (fantasy) The...

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fail because they are afraid, bored, and confused. They are afraid, above all else, of failing, of disappointing or displeasing the many anxious adults around them, whose limitless hopes and exp...

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2023/08/students-fail-because-they-are-afraid-bored-or-confused.html

I’m going to start posting some quotes here from John Holt’s How Children Fail, which is a classic education text about student learning (that most educators have never read?)… The bad thin...

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2023/08/why-do-we-assume-the-worst-of-children.html

About ten years ago when I was in Iowa, a middle school principal decided that her students weren’t trying hard enough on the state tests. So she set up a fun end-of-year field trip to the amus...

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2023/08/if-you-want-to-graduate-pass-the-test-or-grovel-to-the-school-board.html

It’s the 17th birthday of Dangerously Irrelevant. That’s a LONG time! And while my blogging has much more uneven in recent years, I’m not not down for the count yet. Thanks for staying with...

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One class that I always thought would be meaningful, impactful, and highly visible to the community would be a Social Impact elective course. This would basically be a student-driven genius hour ...

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You may have missed it but, back in June, the U.S. Department of Education released a report called The State of School Diversity in the United States . Page 6 of the report noted that White stud...

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2023/08/time-to-flip-the-majority-minority-terminology-in-schools.html

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in July 2023… Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills, Gregory Schraw and Daniel Robinson (Eds.) (psychology) The Future of Smart, Ulcca Joshi Hansen ...

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