Alfie Kohn challenges the common justification of mainstream schooling practices (tests, standards, competition, grades, homework) as valuable training for the reality of future schooling and workplace environments. You’d better get used to it not only assumes that life is pretty unpleasant, but that we ought not to bother trying to change the things that make it unpleasant. [W]hen an entire generation comes to regard rewards and punishments, or rating and ranking, as the way life works, rather than as practices that happen to define our society at this moment in history, their critical sensibilities are stillborn. Debatable policies are never debated. alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/bguti.htm
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:00:00 +0000
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