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Alfie Kohn's Books
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Unconditional ParentingMost parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" and then proceed to offer various techniques for...Read More
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Fast Company, May 9, 2012
...come close to preparing students for the challenges of today’s world and workforce. As progressive educational activist Alfie Kohn notes, great teaching isn’t just about content but motivation and empowerment: real learning gives you the mental...
Education News, May 6, 2012
...in every domain, although mastery will be different. We should acknowledge the difference and honor the mastery achieved Alfie Kohn, who argues that our emphasis on homework and our resorting to extrinsic levers of motivation both serve to lessen real...
Teacher Magazine, May 2, 2012
...are being promised to fix everything in the world of education, I remain a skeptic . Scholar and author Alfie Kohn wrote this essay on the subject back in 2010. This week I asked him to share his current thoughts. Question 1. Where do you think the...
Cape Cod Online, April 12, 2012
...Research does not support the belief that there is any academic benefit from homework in elementary school. As Alfie Kohn explains in "The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing," the "widespread assumptions about the benefits of...
Huffington Post, April 10, 2012
...reason kids don't read is that they need to be bribed into doing so with extrinsic awards. Alfie Kohn explores these issues in " A Closer Look at Reading Incentive Programs " and "How to Create Nonreaders." AR gets motivation wrong when it uses...
Education World, April 3, 2012
...yourself each and every day. No Contest: The Case Against Competition One of the most prolific education writers, Alfie Kohn is also one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking. This book makes perhaps the most profound argument Kohn has ever...
North West Arkansas Times, April 2, 2012
...push to achieve Grades, homework and competition undermine an innate desire in children to explore and discover, said Alfie Kohn, an author and lecturer who will speak this week at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Subscribers must LOG-IN to...
Education News, March 2, 2012
...have attended a “good” pre-school? To have a “Star Teacher” instead of a ”quitter/failure?” To be familiar with Alfie Kohn’s writing? To consider that the alternative to flunking a student is teaching him/her? First, Determine the Root...
Lexington Patch, February 29, 2012
...principal. Other events here Lexington Community Education: Pushed Too Hard: Parenting in an Achievement-Crazy Culture: An Evening with Alfie Kohn Tomorrow, Mar 1, 7:00 pm–8:30 pm Post-Secondary Transition Planning: What You Need to Know Tomorrow,...
Lexington Patch, February 29, 2012
...principal. Other events here Lexington Community Education: Pushed Too Hard: Parenting in an Achievement-Crazy Culture: An Evening with Alfie Kohn Tomorrow, Mar 1, 7:00 pm–8:30 pm Post-Secondary Transition Planning: What You Need to Know Tomorrow,...
Care2, February 28, 2012
...increasingly showing that there’s just no benefit to assigning homework to kids at a young age. As Alfie Kohn, author of “The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing” told Korbey, “No research has ever found any benefit. It’s...
Encinitas Patch, February 28, 2012
...Library, 2081 Newcastle Ave, Cardiff By the Sea, CA | Get Directions » FREE Parenting group that discusses Alfie Kohn's principles of parenting that are based on mutual respect and unconditional love. The purpose of the group is to inspire lively...
Lexington Patch, February 28, 2012
...principal. Other events here Lexington Community Education: Pushed Too Hard: Parenting in an Achievement-Crazy Culture: An Evening with Alfie Kohn Thu, Mar 1, 7:00 pm–8:30 pm Post-Secondary Transition Planning: What You Need to Know Thu, Mar 1, 7:30...
Square Mile, February 27, 2012
...people are motivated by rewards, so they don’t feel the need to test it,” says American teacher-turned-writer Alfie Kohn. “It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis.” No one disputes that bonuses help companies attract...
