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The Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn (1999, Hardcover) 
The Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn (1999, Hardcover)

 
The Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn (1999, Hardcover)

Author: Alfie Kohn
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date: 1999-09-07
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0395940397
ISBN-13: 9780395940396
Product ID: EPID429164
Description: Author Alfie Kohn discusses why standardized testing is a dangerous practice--instead of helping students become active thinkers, the tests make students "walking repositories of knowledge;" they merely memorize and answer questions by r...
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Synopsis
Author Alfie Kohn discusses why standardized testing is a dangerous practice--instead of helping students become active thinkers, the tests make students "walking repositories of knowledge;" they merely memorize and answer questions by rote. He also posits that standardized testing does not prepare students for the real world, nor does it allow children to really "show" what they really know.

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Publication Date:1999-09-07

Size
Length:344 pages
Height:9.8 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:22.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Educators are urged to move beyond traditional classrooms and tougher standards in this tough critique on the heavy-handed, top-down, and test-driven version of school reform.

In this "lively, provocative and well-researched book" (Theodore Sizer), AlÞe Kohn builds a powerful argument against the "back to basics" philosophy of teaching and simplistic demands to "raise the bar." Drawing on stories from real classrooms and extensive research, Kohn shows parents, educators, and others interested in the debate how schools can help students explore ideas rather than filling them with forgettable facts and preparing them for standardized tests.
Here at last is a book that challenges the two dominant forces in American education: an aggressive nostalgia for traditional teaching ("If it was bad enough for me, it's bad enough for my kids") and a heavy-handed push for Tougher Standards.

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