The schools our children deserve : moving beyond traditional classrooms and "tougher standards" /
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| Author / Creator: | Kohn, Alfie. |
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| Imprint: | Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999. |
| Description: | vi, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3966847 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Forward ... Into the Past
- Part 1. Tougher Standards Versus Better Education
- 2. Getting Motivation Wrong: The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement
- 3. Getting Teaching and Learning Wrong: Traditional Education and Its Victims
- 4. Getting Evaluation Wrong: The Case Against Standardized Testing
- 5. Getting School Reform Wrong: The Arrogance of Top-Down Coercion
- 6. Getting Improvement Wrong: Confusing Harder with Better
- Part 2. For the Love of Learning
- 7. Starting from Scratch
- 8. Education at Its Best
- 9. Getting the 3 R's Right
- 10. The Way Out
- Appendix A. The Hard Evidence
- Appendix B. What to Look For in a Classroom
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index
