The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "tougher Standards"
- ISBN-10
- 0618083456
- ISBN-13
- 9780618083459
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Alfie Kohn
Description
Arguing against the "tougher standards" rhetoric that marks the current education debate, the author of No Contest and Punished by Rewards writes that such tactics squeeze the pleasure out of learning. Reprint.
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