Author and lecturer Alfie Kohn is known for being controversial in his critiques of education in the United States. That's exactly why officials at Creative Learning Academy, in partnership with the ...

Educator Kohn (Punished by Rewards) presents 19 essays (previously published in such newspapers and journals as the New York Times and Education Week) in this spirited and incisive probe of education ...

“So how should we reward teachers? We shouldn’t. They’re not pets. Rather, teachers should be paid well, freed from misguided mandates, treated with respect, and provided with the support they need to ...

Are today’s young people spoiled, over-praised, mollycoddled? Do we punish our kids less and less while praising them more and more? Do they therefore grow up to be spineless, soft and ill-prepared ...

Most books about parenting offer tips for handling kids when they act up: how to get them to go to bed without a fuss; how to cure their picky eating habits; how to stop them from talking back. But ...

Alfie Kohn is the author of eleven books, including The Schools Our Children Deserve, The Case Against Standardized Testing and What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? School reform could take on new ...

School is making your children hate learning. Homework is killing their creativity. They forget everything they learned for the big test once they turn it in. Such is the mantra of Alfie Kohn. In town ...

Alfie Kohn has been writing and speaking about education, human behavior and parenting for more than two decades, writing 14 books and hundreds of articles for newspapers, magazines and journals. His ...

Alfie Kohn has been at the forefront of the resistance to test-based reforms for more than a decade. As we approach the Save Our Schools March this Saturday, I asked him to share some thoughts about ...

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of fourteen books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as ...