What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies

Name: What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies
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ISBN: 9780807032671

ISBN-10: 0807032670

ISBN-13: 9780807032671

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alfie Kohn

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Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. 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. 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. His central focus is on the real goals of education-a topic, he argues, that we systematically ignore while lavishing…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 5/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Alfie Kohn was described by "Time" as "the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades & test scores." The author of the influential "No Contest" & "Punished by Rewards," he writes & speaks widely about human behavior, education, & social theory. He lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.



Preface


Introduction: Grappling with Goals



The Purposes of Schooling



What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?



Turning Learning into a Business



The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement



Standards and Testing



Confusing Harder and Better



Beware of the Standards, Not Just the Tests



Standardized Testing and Its Victims



Sacrificing Learning for Higher Scores



Two Cheers for an End to the SAT



Grading and Evaluating



From Degrading to De-Grading



The Dangerous Myth to Grade Inflation



Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!"



Moral, Social, and Psychological Questions



Constant Frustration and Occasional Violence: The Legacy of American High Schools



September 11



A Fresh Look at Abraham Maslow



School Reform and the Study of Education



Almost There, But Not Quite



Education's Rotten Apples



The Folly of Merit Pay



Professors Who Profess


Credits


Index