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| Preface | ||
| Introduction: Grappling with Goals | ||
| 1 | The Purposes of Schooling | |
| 1 | What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? | 1 |
| 2 | Turning Learning into a Business | 11 |
| 3 | The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement | 28 |
| 2 | Standards and Testing | |
| 4 | Confusing Harder and Better | 41 |
| 5 | Beware of the Standards, Not Just the Tests | 46 |
| 6 | Standardized Testing and Its Victims | 54 |
| 7 | Sacrificing Learning for Higher Scores | 62 |
| 8 | Two Cheers for an End to the SAT | 65 |
| 3 | Grading and Evaluating | |
| 9 | From Degrading to De-Grading | 75 |
| 10 | The Dangerous Myth to Grade Inflation | 93 |
| 11 | Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!" | 106 |
| 4 | Moral, Social, and Psychological Questions | |
| 12 | Constant Frustration and Occasional Violence: The Legacy of American High Schools | 117 |
| 13 | September 11 | 128 |
| 14 | A Fresh Look at Abraham Maslow | 131 |
| 5 | School Reform and the Study of Education | |
| 15 | Almost There, But Not Quite | 151 |
| 16 | Education's Rotten Apples | 159 |
| 17 | The Folly of Merit Pay | 166 |
| 18 | Professors Who Profess | 174 |
| Credits | 185 | |
| Index | 188 |
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NOBODY has influenced my teaching/pedagoy more than Mr. Kohn. In fact, I don't think I'd be nearly as effective a teacher if I hadn't read Kohn's work. He'll thoughtfully, yet relentlessly, critique public educational status quos. I was forced to rethink/revise/consider my ideas and practices about the following topics:
1. The purpose of school.
2. Homework
3. Classroom management
4. Rewards and Punishments..."dangling carrots"
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