What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies Kohn Alfie
What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies Kohn Alfie Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively…
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What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies Kohn Alfie
Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. school.'In this new collection of essays, Kohn takes on some of the most important and controversial topics in education of the last few years. "Time" magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades and] test scores.' And the "Washington Post" says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests a fact of life in every U.S.
His central focus is on the real goals of education-a topic, he argues, that we systematically ignore while lavishing attention on misguided models of learning and counterproductive techniques of motivation.The shift to talking about goals yields radical conclusions and wonderfully pungent essays that only