Articles
Arranged by Periodical
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(*) = included in What to Look for in a Classroom … and Other Essays
(**) = included in What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? … and Other Essays
(#) = included in Feel-Bad Education … and Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling
(##) = included in Schooling Beyond Measure… and Other Unorthodox Essays About Education
Spotlight Articles
- Less and Less Curious
- EDUCATION WEEK
- October 2, 2024
- Cooperative Games: Discovering How Much Fun Competition ISN'T
- Foreword to Cooperative Games
- 2022
- The Case Against Classroom Management . . . a Quarter-Century Later
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 22, 2021
- Is Learning "Lost" When Kids Are Out of School?
- BOSTON GLOBE
- September 6, 2020
- Autism and Behaviorism
- January 21, 2020
- It's Time to Rethink Education Policy
- October 15, 2019
- Can Everyone Be Excellent?
- NEW YORK TIMES
- June 16, 2019
- Rewards Are Still Bad News 25 Years Later
- NEW YORK TIMES
- October 28, 2018
- Who's Asking?
- EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- September 2015
- The Case Against Grades (##)
- EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- November 2011
- Poor Teaching for Poor Children … in the Name of Reform (##)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- April 27, 2011
- How to Create Nonreaders (#)
- ENGLISH JOURNAL
- Fall 2010 -- vol. 100, no. 1
- Progressive Education (#)
- INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
- Spring 2008
- Rethinking Homework
- PRINCIPAL
- January/February 2007
- Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!" (**)
- YOUNG CHILDREN
- September 2001
Educational Periodicals
Phi Delta Kappan
- Why Self-Discipline Is Overrated (#)
- PHI DELTA KAPPAN
- November 2008
- Who’s Cheating Whom? (#)
- PHI DELTA KAPPAN
- October 2007
- Abusing Research: The Study of Homework and Other Examples
- PHI DELTA KAPPAN
- September 2006
- Challenging Students . . . And How to Have More of Them (#)
- PHI DELTA KAPPAN
- November 2004
- Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow
- PHI DELTA KAPPAN
- April 2004
- The 500-Pound Gorilla (**)
- PHI DELTA KAPPAN
- October 2002
- Fighting the Tests: A Practical Guide to Rescuing Our Schools
- PHI DELTA KAPPAN
- January 2001
- Only for My Kid: How Privileged Parents Undermine School Reform (*)
- PHI DELTA KAPPAN
- April 1998
- How Not to Teach Values: A Critical Look at Character Education (*)
- PHI DELTA KAPPAN
- February 1997
- The Truth About Self-Esteem (*)
- PHI DELTA KAPPAN
- December 1994
- Choices for Children: Why and How to Let Students Decide (*)
- PHI DELTA KAPPAN
- September 1993
- Caring Kids: The Role of the Schools (*)
- PHI DELTA KAPPAN
- March 1991
Education Week
- Less and Less Curious
- EDUCATION WEEK
- October 2, 2024
- The Sneaky Conservativism of Ed Tech
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 27, 2023
- Why Feedback Often Doesn't Help
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 21, 2022
- The Case Against Classroom Management . . . a Quarter-Century Later
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 22, 2021
- The Pandemic Pivot
- EDUCATION WEEK
- August 19, 2020
- The Crucial Steps Are the Ones We May Have Skipped
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 3, 2019
- It's Not About Behavior
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 5, 2018
- Cooperative Conflict: Neither Concurrence Nor Debate
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 13, 2017
- On Punishment for Bullying -- and Punishment AS Bullying
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 07, 2016
- Do This and You'll Get That: A Bad Way to Defend Good Programs
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 30, 2015
- What Waiting for a Second Marshmallow Doesn't Prove (##)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 10, 2014
- Encouraging Courage (##)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 18, 2013
- Schooling Beyond Measure (##)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 19, 2012
- Corridor Wit: Talking Back to Our Teachers
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 28, 2011
- Poor Teaching for Poor Children … in the Name of Reform (##)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- April 27, 2011
- Debunking the Case for National Standards (#)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- January 14, 2010
- Turning Children into Data (##)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- August 25, 2010
- The Value of Negative Learning (#)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 16, 2009
- It's Not What We Teach; It's What They Learn (#)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 10, 2008
- Against "Competitiveness" (#)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 19, 2007
- The Truth About Homework
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 6, 2006
- Getting Hit on the Head Lessons (#)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 7, 2005
- Feel-Bad Education: The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy (#)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 15, 2004
- The Folly of Merit Pay (**)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 17, 2003
- Education's Rotten Apples (**)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 18, 2002
- Beware of the Standards, Not Just the Tests (**)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 26, 2001
- Standardized Testing and Its Victims (**)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 27, 2000
- Confusing Harder With Better (**)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 15, 1999
- Students Don't "Work"--They Learn (*)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- September 3, 1997
- Beyond Discipline (*)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- November 20, 1996
- Newt Gingrich’s Reading Plan (*)
- EDUCATION WEEK
- April 19, 1995
Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation (**)
- CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
- November 8, 2002
- Two Cheers for an End to the SAT (**)
- THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
- March 9, 2001
Young Children
- Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!" (**)
- YOUNG CHILDREN
- September 2001
- Fighting the Tests: Turning Frustration into Action
- YOUNG CHILDREN
- March 2001
American School Board Journal
- Change by Decree (##)
- AMERICAN SCHOOL BOARD JOURNAL
- January 2013
- “Well, Duh!” -- 10 Obvious Truths That We Shouldn’t Be Ignoring
- AMERICAN SCHOOL BOARD JOURNAL
- April 2011
- Constant Frustration and Occasional Violence: The Legacy of American High Schools (**)
- AMERICAN SCHOOL BOARD JOURNAL September 1999
- The Goldilocks Paradox [excerpt from The Homework Myth]
- AMERICAN SCHOOL BOARD JOURNAL
- February 2007
- Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools [excerpt from The Schools Our Children Deserve]
- AMERICAN SCHOOL BOARD JOURNAL
- October 1999
School Administrator
- The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement (**)
- SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR November 1999
- Save Our Schools . . . from Business (viewpoint)
- SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR
- October 1995
Educational Leadership [also see INTERVIEWS, below]
- Who's Asking?
- EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- September 2015
- The Case Against Grades (##)
- EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- November 2011
- Unconditional Teaching (#)
- EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- September 2005
- Almost There, But Not Quite (**)
- EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- March 2003
- What to Look for in a Classroom (*)
- EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- September 1996
- Grading: The Issue Is Not How but Why (*)
- EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- OCTOBER 1994
- Turning Learning Into A Business: Concerns About 'Quality Management' at School (*)
- EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- September 1993
- Group Grade Grubbing versus Cooperative LEARNING
- EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- March 1991
Principal Leadership [NASSP]
- What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated? (**)
- PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
- March 2003
- [updated September 2015]
NewsLeader [NASSP]
- A Promise Unfulfilled: 150 Words on Brown v. Board
- NASSP NewsLeader
- May 2004
Principal [NAESP]
- Rethinking Homework
- PRINCIPAL
- January/February 2007
- Unlearning How We Learn [reprint]
- PRINCIPAL
- March 2000
Streamlined Seminar [NAESP]
- The Worst Kind of Cheating
- STREAMLINED SEMINAR (a publication of the National Association of Elementary School Principals)
- Winter 2002-03 -- Vol. 21, No. 2
High School Magazine
- From Degrading to De-Grading
- HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE
- March 1999
District Administration
- When “21st-Century Schooling” Just Isn’t Good Enough: A Modest Proposal (#)
- DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION
- February 2009
Educational Horizons
- Safety from the Inside Out (#)
- EDUCATIONAL HORIZONS
- Fall 2004
Independent School [also see INTERVIEWS, below]
- Grit: A Skeptical Look at the Latest Educational Fad (##)
- INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
- Fall 2014
- Whom We Admit, What We Deny
- INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
- Winter 2012
- Progressive Education (#)
- INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
- Spring 2008
- Changing the Homework Default
- INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
- Winter 2007
- How Not to Get Into College: The Preoccupation with Preparation
- INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
- Winter 2002-03
- How to Make the Least of Your College Years
- INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
- February 1981
Independent Teacher
- Well, Duh: Obvious Truths We Shouldn’t Be Ignoring [reprint]
- INDEPENDENT TEACHER
- Fall 2011
English Journal
- How to Create Nonreaders (#)
- ENGLISH JOURNAL
- Fall 2010 -- vol. 100, no. 1
- The Trouble with Rubrics (#)
- ENGLISH JOURNAL
- March 2006 -- vol. 95, no. 4
- Accelerated Direct Success
- [a parody advertisement]
- September 2001
Language Arts
- Poor Teaching for Poor Kids
- LANGUAGE ARTS
- January 2002
Schools: Studies in Education
- The (Progressive) Schools Our Children Deserve
- SCHOOLS: Studies in Education
- Fall 2005
Rethinking Schools
- Requesting Testing
- RETHINKING SCHOOLS
- Summer 2002
- September 11 (**)
- RETHINKING SCHOOLS
- Winter 2001-02
- Bad Signs [reprint of Kappa Delta Pi Record article]
- RETHINKING SCHOOLS
- Spring 2011
- When ’21st-Century Schooling’ Just Isn’t Good Enough [reprint of District Administration article]
- RETHINKING SCHOOLS
- Spring 2009
- The Tougher Standards Fad Hits Home
- RETHINKING SCHOOLS
- Fall 2006
- Forward . . . Into the Past
- RETHINKING SCHOOLS
- Fall 1999
Kappa Delta Pi Record
- Bad Signs (#)
- KAPPA DELTA PI RECORD
- Fall 2010
- Professors Who Profess (**)
- KAPPA DELTA PI RECORD
- Spring 2003
Reaching Today’s Youth
- The Limits of Teaching Skills (*)
- REACHING TODAY’S YOUTH
- Summer 1997
Instructor
- Down With Homework
- INSTRUCTOR
- September 2006
Learning Magazine
- Discipline Is The Problem -- Not The Solution
- LEARNING MAGAZINE
- October-November 1995
Knowledge Quest
- Reflections on the School Librarians’ “Standards for the 21st-Century Learner”
- KNOWLEDGE QUEST
- November/December 2009
Camping Magazine
- Rethinking Character Education: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Camp and Kids
- CAMPING MAGAZINE
- September/October 2003
School Board News
- The Trouble With "Back-to-Basics" and "Tougher Standards"
- SCHOOL BOARD NEWS
- September 14, 1999
NAMTA Journal
- The Schools Our Children Deserve: Helping Parents Understand the Rationale for Alternative Education
- NAMTA JOURNAL
- Winter 2007
- Raising Children Who Care
- NAMTA JOURNAL
- Spring 2000
- Beyond Bribes and Threats: How Not to Get Control of the Classroom
- NAMTA JOURNAL
- Winter 1998
Journal of Teacher Education
- Burnt at the High Stakes
- JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION
- vol. 51, no. 4September/October 2000
Journal of Education
- Resistance to Cooperative Learning: Making Sense of Its Deletion and Dilution (*)
- JOURNAL OF EDUCATION
- 1992 – vol. 174, no. 2, pages 38-56
Teacher Magazine
- Joyless Endeavors [reprint of “Feel-Bad Education” in Education Week]
- TEACHER MAGAZINE
- November/December 2004
- The ABCs of Caring
- TEACHER MAGAZINE
- January/February 1990
- Human Nature’s Brighter Side
- TEACHER MAGAZINE
- June/July 1990
ERIC Digest
- The Risks of Rewards
- ERIC Digest
- December 1994
Cooperative Learning Magazine
- Is Competition Ever Appropriate in a Cooperative Classroom?
- COOPERATIVE LEARNING MAGAZINE
- 1993 – vol. 13, no. 3
- Rewards in the ‘Real World’: The Workplace, the Classroom, and the Status Quo
- COOPERATIVE LEARNING MAGAZINE vol. 14, no. 2
- 1994
- The ABCs of Caring,
- COOPERATIVE LEARNING MAGAZINE vol. 10, no. 3
- 1990
Cooperative Learning and College Teaching
- Beyond the Traditional Classroom: From Degrading to De-Grading
- COOPERATIVE LEARNING AND COLLEGE TEACHING
- Spring 1994
General Interest Periodicals
New York Times
- Can Everyone Be Excellent?
- NEW YORK TIMES
- June 16, 2019
- Rewards Are Still Bad News 25 Years Later
- NEW YORK TIMES
- October 28, 2018
- Trophy Fury: What's Behind Claims that Kids Are Coddled and Overcelebrated?
- NEW YORK TIMES
- May 4, 2014
- Parental Love with Strings Attached (#)
- NEW YORK TIMES
- September 15, 2009
- Tests That Cheat Students
- NEW YORK TIMES
- December 9, 1999
- In Pursuit of Affluence, at a High Price
- NEW YORK TIMES
- February 2, 1999
- For Best Results, Forget the Bonus
- NEW YORK TIMES
- October 17, 1993
- Competition vs. Excellence
- NEW YORK TIMES
- April 26, 1991
Washington Post [also see INTERVIEWS, below]
- Civics Education -- The Safe Kind and the Subversive Kind
- WASHINGTON POST
- December 23, 2018
- The Downside of "Grit" (Commentary)
- WASHINGTON POST
- April 6, 2014
- Spoiled Rotten -- A Timeless Complaint (commentary)
- WASHINGTON POST
- July 18, 2010
- First Lesson: Unlearn How We Learned (commentary)
- WASHINGTON POST
- October 10, 1999
- Advice for Duncan (contribution to education forum)
- WASHINGTON POST
- January 12, 2009
USA Today
- Cash Incentives Won't Make Us Healthier (#)
- USA TODAY
- May 21, 2009
- Kids May Be Right After All: Homework Stinks
- USA TODAY
- September 14, 2006
- Emphasis on Testing Leads to Sacrifices in Other Areas (**)
- USA Today
- August 21, 2001
- Opposing View (editorials)
- USA TODAY
- 2000-08
Boston Globe [partial listing]
- Is Learning "Lost" When Kids Are Out of School?
- BOSTON GLOBE
- September 6, 2020
- Men Are Still Paying for Women on Dates?
- BOSTON GLOBE
- April 17, 2016
- Clicking for Love
- BOSTON GLOBE
- January 10, 2016
- One-Size-Fits-All Education Doesn’t Work
- BOSTON GLOBE
- June 10, 2001
- Poor Teaching for Poor Students: More Reasons to Boycott the MCAS Tests
- BOSTON GLOBE
- March 20, 2000
- Tougher Tests = Lower Standards
- BOSTON GLOBE
- September 29, 1999
- The Trouble with School Uniforms (*)
- BOSTON GLOBE
- October 2, 1996
- School Choice Myths (*)
- BOSTON GLOBE
- April 24, 1993
- Value Human Life, Not American Power
- BOSTON GLOBE
- March 16, 1991
- Paris Slide Show
- BOSTON GLOBE
- June 19, 1988
- Attorney Relishes Unpopular Cases
- BOSTON GLOBE
- April 13, 1987
- Struggling Toward Literacy
- BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE
- September 1, 1985
- No to More Standardized Testing
- BOSTON GLOBE
- January 26, 2001
- Emphasis Belongs on Learning, Not Grades (on grade inflation)
- BOSTON GLOBE
- September 15, 1995 (*)
The Nation [partial listing]
- Beware of School “Reformers”
- THE NATION
- December 29, 2008
- Atrocious Advice from "Supernanny" (#)
- THE NATION
- May 23, 2005
- Altruism Within Egoism (Book Review)
- THE NATION
- May 29, 1989
The Atlantic Monthly
- Suffer the Restless Children (on ADHD), November 1989 (*) NOTE: An addendum to this article, originally written for What to Look for in a Classroom…and Other Essays in 1998, is available here.
- Home Schooling
- THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY
- April 1988
Salon
- Raising an UnTrump
- SALON
- August 27, 2017
- Trumped
- SALON
- March 28, 2016
- "Helicopter Parenting" Hysteria
- SALON
- September 4, 2015
- The "Mindset" Mindset
- SALON
- August 16, 2015
American Health
- Back to Nurture
- AMERICAN HEALTH
- April 1993
Health
- The Risks of Rewards
- ERIC Digest
- December 1994
Greater Good
- A Different View
- GREATER GOOD
- Spring-Summer 2005
Reader’s Digest
- Don’t Believe Everything You Hear
- READER’s DIGEST
- July 1992
- You Know What They Say…
- READER’S DIGEST
- July 1988
Psychology Today [partial listing]
- Do Religious People Help More? Not So You'd Notice
- PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
- December 1989
- Beyond Selfishness
- PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
- October 1988
- Are Humans Innately Aggressive?
- PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
- June 1988
- After Happily Ever After
- PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
- January-February 1989
- Evidence for a Moral Tradition
- PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
- January-February 1989
- You Know What They Say…
- PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
- April 1988
- Girl Talk, Guy Talk
- PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
- February 1988
- Making the Most of Marriage
- PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
- December 1987
- It’s Hard to Get Left Out of a Pair (profile of Johnson brothers)
- PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
- October 1987
- Art for Art’s Sake (profile of Teresa Amabile)
- PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
- September 1987
- How to Succeed Without Even Vying
- PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
- September 1986
Los Angeles Times
- Getting a Grip on Schizophrenia
- LOS ANGELES TIMES
- June 25, 1990
Publishers Weekly
- Why I Write
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
- March 7, 2014
Boston Magazine
- Stop!: An Analysis of Boston Driving
- BOSTON MAGAZINE
- September 1985
- What’s Up, Doc?
- BOSTON MAGAZINE
- December 1984
- B. F. Skinner: Reinforced by Life
- BOSTON MAGAZINE
- July 1984
New England Monthly
- Mind Over Matter: Inside the Christian Science Church
- NEW ENGLAND MONTHLY
- March 1988
- We Interrupt This Tour…
- NEW ENGLAND MONTHLY
- April 1987
- Risking the Wind
- NEW ENGLAND MONTHLY
- January 1987
- To Forget Is Human; To Forgive, Tragic
- NEW ENGLAND MONTHLY
- April 1986
- Dialing for Dollars
- NEW ENGLAND MONTHLY
- July 1985
Boston Phoenix
- Lottery Lies
- BOSTON PHOENIX
- April 10, 1984
- Rich Man, Poor Man
- BOSTON PHOENIX
- January 17, 1984
- Growth Potential
- BOSTON PHOENIX
- September 20, 1983
- Existential Quizzes
- BOSTON PHOENIX
- July 19, 1983
Women’s Sports & Fitness
- Fun & Fitness Without Competition
- WOMEN’S SPORTS & FITNESS
- July/August 1990
The Georgia Review
- Existentialism Here and Now
- THE GEORGIA REVIEW
- Summer 1984
Tikkun
- The Real Threat to American Schools
- TIKKUN
- March/April 2001
The Sondheim Review
- The Case for Sondheim as Existentialist
- THE SONDHEIM REVIEW
- Spring 2000
Brown Daily Herald
- Rodents and the Barometry of Tension
- Brown Daily Herald
- April 22, 1976
Parenting Magazines
Parents Magazine
- Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!" (**)
- YOUNG CHILDREN
- September 2001
- The Case Against Gold Stars
- PARENTS MAGAZINE
- October 1993
Parenting Magazine
- How to Raise an Assertive Child (But Not an Aggressive One)
- PARENTING MAGAZINE
- April 1995
Growing Without Schooling
- Rethinking Discipline: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn
- GROWING WITHOUT SCHOOLING
- May-June 1997
Ladies Home Journal
- The Spoiled Child
- LADIES HOME JOURNAL
- May 1991
- Raising Kids Who Care
- LADIES HOME JOURNAL
- December 1989
- The New Discipline
- LADIES HOME JOURNAL
- November 1989
Family Circle
- The Case Against Homework
- FAMILY CIRCLE
- October 2012
Working Mother
- The Case Against Competition
- WORKING MOTHER
- September 1987
Business Magazines
Harvard Business Review
- Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work
- HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
- September-October 1993
Compensation and Benefits Review
- Challenging Behaviorist Dogma
- COMPENSATION & BENEFITS REVIEW
- March/April 1998
Inc. magazine
- No Contest
- INC. Magazine
- November 1987
- Incentives Can Be Bad for Business
- INC. MAGAZINE
- January 1988
- (For more business-related publications, please see the Rethinking Management page.)
Interviews and Profiles
TES [Times Educational Supplement]
- Tes Talks to…Alfie Kohn
- TES
- November 24, 2017
Educational Leadership
- Why Students Lose When Tougher Standards Win: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn
- EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- September 1999
- Punished by Rewards?: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn
- EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- September 1995
Washington Post
- Education's Different Drummer
- WASHINGTON POST
- January 9, 2001
Hope Magazine
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- Test Ban Entreaty
- HOPE MAGAZINE
- January/February 2004 [PDF]
Maclean’s
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- Interview with Alfie Kohn [about homework]
- MACLEAN’S
- September 15, 2006
- Interview with Alfie Kohn [about homework]
American School Board Journal
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- Battling ‘Myths’: A Q&A with Author Alfie Kohn [about homework]
- AMERICAN SCHOOL BOARD JOURNAL
- February 2007
- Battling ‘Myths’: A Q&A with Author Alfie Kohn [about homework]
English Education
- Fighting the Toxic Status Quo
- ENGLISH EDUCATION
- January 2002
Los Angeles Times
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- Crusader Argues School Reforms Hinder Learning
- LOS ANGELES TIMES
- Feb. 22, 2000
- Crusader Argues School Reforms Hinder Learning
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Independent School
- In Defense of the Progressive School
- INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
- Fall 1999 Vol. 59, No. 1
Paths of Learning
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- The Compassion Our Children Deserve: An Interview with Alfie Kohn
- PATHS OF LEARNING
- Winter 2000
- The Compassion Our Children Deserve: An Interview with Alfie Kohn
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Creative Classroom
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- Testing on Trial: Educator Alfie Kohn Speaks Out
- CREATIVE CLASSROOM
- January/February 2002
- Testing on Trial: Educator Alfie Kohn Speaks Out
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Harvard Education Letter
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- The Case Against Rewards and Praise: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn
- HARVARD EDUCATIONAL LETTER
- March-April 1994
- The Case Against Rewards and Praise: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn
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The Constructivist
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- A Conversation with Alfie Kohn
- THE CONSTRUCTIVIST
- Summer 1997
- A Conversation with Alfie Kohn
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Growing Without Schooling
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- Rethinking Discipline: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn
- GROWING WITHOUT SCHOOLING
- May-June 1997
- The Trouble with Rewards: An Interview with Alfie Kohn
- GROWING WITHOUT SCHOOLING
- September-October 1994
- Rethinking Discipline: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn
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The Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers
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- Offering Challenges, Creating Cognitive Dissonance
- THE ACTIVE LEARNER: A FOXFIRE JOURNAL FOR TEACHERS
- March and July 1997
- Offering Challenges, Creating Cognitive Dissonance
Book Chapters & Forewords
- “Cooperative Games: Discovering How Much Fun Competition Isn’t“ – Foreword to Cooperative Games in Education by Suzanne Lyons (Teachers College Press, 2022)
- Foreword to Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan D. Blum (West Virginia Press, 2020)
- “Trumped: Making Sense of the Narcissist-in-Chief,” in The Psychology of Political Behavior in a Time of Change, edited by Jan D. Sinnott and Joan S. Rabin (Springer, 2020). [Adapted from “Trumped” and ““Narcissist-in-Chief”.]
- “To Change What We Do, Consider What We Believe” – Foreword to The Teacher You Want to Be, edited by Matt Glover and Ellin Oliver Keene (Heinemann, 2015)
- Introduction to More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, edited by Jesse Hagopian (Haymarket Books, 2014)
- “The Attack on Self-Esteem,” in The Myth of the Spoiled Child (Da Capo Books, 2014)
- “The Roots of Grades-and-Tests” – Introduction to De-Testing + De-Grading Schools, edited by Joe Bower and P.L. Thomas (Peter Lang, 2013)
- “Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow: Using Accountability to ‘Reform’ Public Schools to Death,” in The Assault on Public Education: Confronting the Politics of Corporate School Reform, edited by William Watkins (Teachers College Press, 2012)
- Foreword to Turning Points: 27 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories, edited by Jerry Mintz and Carlo Ricci (Alternative Education Resource Organization, 2009)
- “The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation,” in Grade Inflation: Academic Standards in Higher Education, edited by Lester H. Hunt (SUNY Press, 2008). [For a similar article, see this essay of the same name.]
- “The Trouble with Pure Freedom: A Case for Active Adult Involvement in Progressive Education,” in The Directory of Democratic Education, 2nd ed., edited by Dana M. Bennis and Isaac R. Graves (Alternative Education Resource Organization, 2007)
- Foreword to Psychology of Academic Cheating, edited by Eric M. Anderman and Tamera B. Murdock (Academic Press, 2006). [For a similar article, see “Who’s Cheating Whom?”]
- Foreword to Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment by Maja Wilson (Heinemann, 2006). [For a similar article, see “The Trouble with Rubrics.”]
- “Punitive Damages,” in Unconditional Parenting (Atria, 2005)
- “NCLB and the Effort to Privatize Public Education,” in Many Children Left Behind, edited by Deborah Meier and George Wood (Beacon Press, 2004). [For a similar article, see “Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow.”]
- Foreword to Learning to Trust: Transforming Difficult Elementary Classrooms Through Developmental Discipline by Marilyn Watson (Jossey-Bass, 2003) [and a new Foreword to the second edition, published by Oxford University Press in 2018]
- Foreword to What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? by Susan Ohanian (McGraw-Hill, 2002)
- “Early Childhood Education: The Case Against Direct Instruction of Academic Skills,” in The Schools Our Children Deserve (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)
- “A Look at Maslow’s Basic Propositions,” in Perceiving, Behaving, Becoming: Lessons Learned, edited by H. J. Freiberg (ASCD, 1999) (**)
- [autobiographical] Foreword to What to Look for in a Classroom…And Other Essays(Jossey-Bass, 1998)
- “Television and Children: ReViewing the Evidence,” in What to Look for in a Classroom… And Other Essays (Jossey-Bass, 1998) (*)
- “The Trouble with Character Education,” in The Construction of Children’s Character – 96th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II, edited by A. Molnar (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997) [For a similar article, see “How Not to Teach Values.”]
- “Cooperation: What It Means and Doesn’t Mean,” in Cooperation: Beyond the Age of Competition, edited by A. Combs (Gordon & Breach, 1992)
- “The Humanity of Humans,” in The Brighter Side of Human Nature (Basic Books, 1990)