The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"

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Not only am I a teacher, but I am a product of the kind of public school for which Alfie Kohn advocates. We definitely and desperately need this voice in the debate over education. I fully approve of his regime. I was not a terrifically motivated kid, academically speaking, before entering Kindergarten, but during my elementary education grew to become a highly self-motivated and intense learner. I not only had projects and assignments at school (which included research papers and even some traditional math work), but was constantly engaged in projects at home (teaching myself French, extremely engrossed in geography, reading articles of interest from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, and designing board games with highly complex probabilities.) Many of my classmates had similar experiences. My school was a public school in an unremarkable, middle-class suburb. Kohn's argument results in the kind of education I got up to 6th grade. We took the standardized tests, and did as well or better than neighboring schools on average. What's all the fear about?Read this book. If you are a parent or educator, you REALLY need to read this book.

Alfie Kohn has forever changed my views on teaching. I used this book in my graduate studies and plan on keeping it in my collection. Kohn has utilized a lot of research. There are multiple pages dedicated to his research in the back of the book that takes up quite a bunch of pages. It's not dry reading though the research to back up Kohn's commentary is immense. This is a book that will stay in my collection and will be reread during summers.