Education Week

• "Schooling Beyond Measure," September 19, 2012
• "Corridor Wit: Talking Back to Our Teachers," September 28, 2011
• "Poor Teaching for Poor Children...in the Name of Reform," April 27, 2011
• "Turning Children into Data," September 25, 2010
• "Debunking the Case for National Standards," January 14, 2010 (#)
• "The Value of Negative Learning," September 16, 2009 (#)
• "It's Not What We Teach; It's What They Learn," September 10, 2008 (#)
• "Against 'Competitiveness,'" September 19, 2007 (#)
• "The Truth About Homework," September 6, 2006
• "Getting-Hit-on-the-Head Lessons," September 7, 2005 (#)
• "Feel-Bad Education: The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy," September 15, 2004 (#)
• "The Folly of Merit Pay," September 17, 2003 (**)
• "Education's Rotten Apples," September 18, 2002 (**)
• "Beware of the Standards, Not Just the Tests," September 26, 2001 (**)
• "Standardized Testing and Its Victims," September 27, 2000 (**)
• "Confusing Harder with Better," September 15, 1999 (**)
• "Students Don't 'Work' - They Learn," September 3, 1997 (*)
• "Beyond Discipline," November 20, 1996 (*)
• "Newt Gingrich's Reading Plan," April 19, 1995 (*)

Chronicle of Higher Education

• "The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation" November 8, 2002 (**)
• "Two Cheers for an End to the SAT," March 9, 2001 (**)

Young Children

• "Five Reasons to Stop Saying 'Good Job!'", September 2001 (**)
• "Fighting the Tests: Turning Frustration into Action," March 2001

American School Board Journal

• "Change by Decree," January 2013
• "'Well, Duh!': 10 Obvious Truths That We Shouldn't Be Ignoring," April 2011
• "The Goldilocks Paradox" [excerpt from The Homework Myth], February 2007
• "Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools" [excerpt from The Schools Our Children Deserve], October 1999
• "Constant Frustration and Occasional Violence: The Legacy of American High Schools," September 1999 (**)

School Administrator

• "The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement", November 1999 (**)
• "Save Our Schools . . . from Business" (viewpoint), October 1995

Educational Leadership [also see INTERVIEWS, below]

• "The Case Against Grades," November 2011
• "Unconditional Teaching," September 2005 (#)
• "Almost There, But Not Quite," March 2003 (**)
• "What to Look for in a Classroom," September 1996 (*)
• "Grading: The Issue Is Not How but Why," October 1994 (*)
• "Turning Learning into a Business: Concerns About 'Quality Management' at School," September 1993 (*)
• "Group Grade Grubbing versus Cooperative Learning," February 1991

Principal Leadership [NASSP]

• "What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated?", March 2003 (**)

NewsLeader [NASSP]

• "A Promise Unfulfilled: 150 Words on Brown v. Board," May 2004

Principal [NAESP]

• "Rethinking Homework," January-February 2007
• "Unlearning How We Learned" [reprint of Washington Post article], March 2000

Streamlined Seminar [NAESP]

• "The Worst Kind of Cheating", Winter 2002-03

High School Magazine

• "From Degrading to De-Grading," March 1999 (**)

District Administration

• "When '21st-Century Schooling' Just Isn't Good Enough: A Modest Proposal," February 2009 (#)

Educational Horizons

• "Safety from the Inside Out," Fall 2004 (#)
• "How to Rock the Boat," April-May 2013

Independent School [also see INTERVIEWS, below]

• "Whom We Admit, What We Deny," Winter 2012
• "Progressive Education," Spring 2008 (#)
• "Changing the Homework Default," Winter 2007
• "How Not to Get Into College: The Preoccupation with Preparation," Winter 2002-03
• "How to Make the Least of Your College Years," February 1981

Independent Teacher

• ""Well, Duh!": Obvious Truths That We Shouldn't Be Ignoring," [reprint of introduction to Feel-Bad Education], Fall 2011

English Journal

• "How to Create Nonreaders", Fall 2010 (#)
• "The Trouble with Rubrics", March 2006 (#)
• Accelerated Direct Success [a parody advertisement], September 2001

Language Arts

• "Poor Teaching for Poor Kids," January 2002

Schools: Studies in Education

• "The (Progressive) Schools Our Children Deserve," Fall 2005

Rethinking Schools

• "Bad Signs," Spring 2011
  [reprint of Kappa Delta Pi Record article]
• "When '21st-Century Schooling' Just Isn't Good Enough," Spring 2009
  [reprint of District Administration article]
• "The Tougher Standards Fad Hits Home", Fall 2006
• "Requesting Testing," Summer 2002
• "September 11", Winter 2001/02 (**)
• "Forward . . . Into the Past," Fall 1999

Kappa Delta Pi Record

• "Bad Signs," Fall 2010 (#)
• "Professors Who Profess: Making a Difference as Scholar-Activists," Spring 2003 (**)

Reaching Today's Youth

• "The Limits of Teaching Skills," Summer 1997 (*)

Instructor

• "Down With Homework," September 2006

Learning Magazine

• "Discipline Is the Problem -- Not the Solution," October-November 1995

Knowledge Quest

• "Reflections on the School Librarians’ 'Standards for the 21st-Century Learner,'" November-December 2009

Camping Magazine

• "Rethinking Character Education: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Camp and Kids," September/October 2003

School Board News

• "The Trouble with 'Back-to-Basics' and 'Tougher Standards,'" September 14, 1999

NAMTA Journal

• "The Schools Our Children Deserve: Helping Parents Understand the Rationale for Alternative Education," Winter 2007
• "Raising Children Who Care," Spring 2000
• "Beyond Bribes and Threats: How Not to Get Control of the Classroom," Winter 1998

Journal of Teacher Education

• "Burnt at the High Stakes," vol. 51, no. 4, September/October 2000

Journal of Education

• "Resistance to Cooperative Learning: Making Sense of Its Deletion and Dilution," vol. 174 (1992) (*)

Teacher Magazine

• "Joyless Endeavors" [reprint of "Feel-Bad Education" in Education Week], November/December 2004
• "The ABCs of Caring," January/February 1990
• "Human Nature's Brighter Side," June/July 1990

ERIC Digest

• "The Risks of Rewards," December 1994 (PDF)

Cooperative Learning Magazine

• "Rewards in the 'Real World': The Workplace, the Classroom, and the Status Quo," vol. 14, no. 2, (1994)
• "Is Competition Ever Appropriate in a Cooperative Classroom?", vol. 13, no. 3 (1993)
• "The ABCs of Caring," vol. 10, no. 3 (1990)

Cooperative Learning and College Teaching

• "Beyond the Traditional Classroom: From Degrading to De-Grading," Spring 1994

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General Interest Periodicals

New York Times

• "Parental Love with Strings Attached," (Science Times), September 15, 2009 (#)
• "Tests That Cheat Students" (op ed), December 9, 1999
• "In Pursuit of Affluence, at a High Price," (Science Times), February 2, 1999
• "For Best Results, Forget the Bonus," (Business section), October 17, 1993
• "Competition vs. Excellence"(op ed), April 26, 1991

Washington Post [also see INTERVIEWS, below]

• "Spoiled Rotten -- A Timeless Complaint" (commentary), July 18, 2010
• "Advice for Duncan" (contribution to education forum), January 12, 2009
• "First Lesson: Unlearn How We Learned" (commentary), October 10, 1999

USA Today

• "Cash Incentives Won't Make Us Healthier" (op ed), May 21, 2009 (#)
• "Kids May Be Right After All: Homework Stinks" (op ed), September 14, 2006
• "Emphasis on Testing Leads to Sacrifices in Other Areas" (op ed), August 22, 2001(**)
• Opposing View editorials, 2000-08

Boston Globe [partial listing]

• "One-Size-Fits-All Education Doesn't Work," June 10, 2001
• "No to More Standardized Testing," January 26, 2001
• "Poor Teaching for Poor Students: More Reasons to Boycott the MCAS Tests," March 20, 2000
• "Tougher Tests = Lower Standards", September 29, 1999
• "The Trouble with School Uniforms," October 2, 1996 (*)
• "Emphasis Belongs on Learning, Not Grades" (on grade inflation), September 15, 1995 (*)
• "School Choice Myths," April 24, 1993 (*)
• "Value Human Life, Not American Power," March 16, 1991
• "Paris Slide Show," June 19, 1988
• "Attorney Relishes Unpopular Cases," April 13, 1987
• "Struggling Toward Literacy," September 1, 1985

The Nation [partial listing]

• "Beware of School 'Reformers,'" December 29, 2008
• "Atrocious Advice from 'Supernanny,'" May 23, 2005 (#)
• "Altruism Within Egoism" (book review essay), May 29, 1989

The Atlantic Monthly

• "Suffer the Restless Children" (on ADHD), November 1989 (*)
  NOTE: An addendum to this article, originally written for What to Look for in a Classroom...and Other Essays in 1998, is available here.
• "Home Schooling," April 1988

Huffington Post

• "Studies Support Rewards, Homework, and Traditional Teaching. Or Do They?" March 31, 2011
• "'But I Need to Assign Homework! Look at All I Have to Cover!'" March 3, 2011
• "STEM Sell: Are Math & Science Really More Important Than Other Subjects?", February 16, 2011
• "Do Tests Really Help Students Learn? Or Was a New Study Misreported?" January 28, 2011
• "'Politically Correct': The Lazy Bully's Label of Choice," January 18, 2011
• "Remember When We Had High Standards? Neither Do I" December 10, 2010
• "'Ready to Learn' = Easier to Educate," November 18, 2010
• "Operation Discourage Bright People from Wanting to Teach," November 1, 2010
• "How to Sell Conservatism: Lesson 1 -- Pretend You're a Reformer," October 20, 2010
• "What Passes for School Reform: 'Value-Added' Teacher Evaluation & Other Absurdities", September 9, 2010
• "Competitiveness vs. Excellence: The Education Crisis That Isn't", August 9, 2010

American Health

• "Back to Nurture" (against genetic determinism), April 1993

Health

• "The Risks of Rewards," May 1990

Reader's Digest

• "Don't Believe Everything You Hear," July 1992
• "You Know What They Say...," July 1988

Psychology Today [partial listing]

• "Do Religious People Help More? Not So You'd Notice," December 1989
• "After Happily Ever After," January-February 1989
• "Evidence for a Moral Tradition," January-February 1989
• "Beyond Selfishness," October 1988
• "Are Humans Innately Aggressive?", June 1988
• "You Know What They Say...," April 1988
• "Girl Talk, Guy Talk," February 1988
• "Making the Most of Marriage," December 1987
• "It's Hard to Get Left Out of a Pair" (profile of Johnson brothers), October 1987
• "Art for Art's Sake" (profile of Teresa Amabile), September 1987
• "How to Succeed Without Even Vying," September 1986

Boston Magazine

• "Stop!: An Analysis of Boston Driving," September 1985
• "What's Up, Doc?: Real, Live Family Practitioners," December 1984
• "B.F. Skinner: Reinforced by Life," July 1984

New England Monthly

• "Mind Over Matter: Inside the Christian Science Church," March 1988
• "We Interrupt This Tour...," April 1987
• "Risking the Wind," January 1987
• "To Forget Is Human; To Forgive, Tragic," April 1986
• "Dialing for Dollars," July 1985

Boston Phoenix

• "Lottery Lies," April 10, 1984

Women's Sports & Fitness

• "Fun & Fitness Without Competition," July/August 1990

The Georgia Review

• "Existentialism Here and Now," Summer 1984

Tikkun

• "The Real Threat to American Schools," March/April 2001

The Sondheim Review

• "The Case for Sondheim as Existentialist," Spring 2000

Brown Daily Herald

• "Rodents and the Barometry of Tension," April 22, 1976

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Parenting Magazines

Parents Magazine

• "Five Reasons to Stop Saying 'Good Job!,'" [published as "Hooked on Praise"], May 2000
• "The Case Against Gold Stars," October 1993

Parenting Magazine

• "How to Raise an Assertive Child (But Not an Aggressive One)," April 1995

Growing Without Schooling

• "Rethinking Discipline: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn," May-June 1997

Ladies Home Journal

• "The Spoiled Child," May 1991
• "Raising Kids Who Care," December 1989
• "The New Discipline," November 1989

Family Circle

• "The Case Against Homework," October 2012

Working Mother

• "The Case Against Competition," September 1987

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Business Magazines

Harvard Business Review

• "Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work," September-October 1993

Compensation and Benefits Review

• "Challenging Behaviorist Dogma: Myths About Money and Motivation," March-April 1998

Inc. magazine

• "Incentives Can Be Bad for Business," January 1988
• "No Contest," November 1987

(For more business-related publications, please see the Rethinking Management page.)

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Interviews and Profiles

Educational Leadership

• "Why Students Lose When 'Tougher Standards' Win: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn," Sept. 1999
• "Punished by Rewards?: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn," Sept. 1995

Washington Post

• "Education's Different Drummer," January 9, 2001

Hope Magazine

• "Test Ban Entreaty", January/February 2004 [PDF]

Maclean's

• "Interview with Alfie Kohn" [about homework], September 15, 2006

Educational Horizons

• "How to Rock the Boat", April-May 2013

American School Board Journal

• "Battling 'Myths': A Q&A with Author Alfie Kohn" [about homework], February 2007

English Education

• "'Fighting the Toxic Status Quo': Alfie Kohn on Standardized Tests and Teacher Education", January 2002

Los Angeles Times

• "Crusader Argues School Reforms Hinder Learning," Feb. 22, 2000

Independent School

• "In Defense of the Progressive School: An Interview with Alfie Kohn," Fall 1999

Paths of Learning

• "The Compassion Our Children Deserve: An Interview with Alfie Kohn," Winter 2000

Creative Classroom

• "Testing on Trial: Educator Alfie Kohn Speaks Out," January/February 2002

Harvard Education Letter

• "The Case Against Rewards and Praise: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn," March-April 1994

The Constructivist

• "A Conversation with Alfie Kohn," Summer 1997

Growing Without Schooling

• "Rethinking Discipline: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn," May-June 1997
• "The Trouble with Rewards: An Interview with Alfie Kohn," September-October 1994

The Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers

• "Offering Challenges, Creating Cognitive Dissonance," March and July 1997

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Book Chapters & Forewords

• "Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow: Using Accountability to 'Reform' Public Schools to Death," in The Assault on Public Education: Confronting the Politics of Corporate School Reform, edited by William Watkins (Teachers College Press, 2012)
• Foreword to Turning Points: 27 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories, edited by Jerry Mintz and Carlo Ricci (Alternative Education Resource Organization, 2009)
• "The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation," in Grade Inflation: Academic Standards in Higher Education, edited by Lester H. Hunt (SUNY Press, 2008). [For a similar article, see this essay of the same name.]
• "The Trouble with Pure Freedom: A Case for Active Adult Involvement in Progressive Education," in The Directory of Democratic Education, 2nd ed., edited by Dana M. Bennis and Isaac R. Graves (Alternative Education Resource Organization, 2007)
• Foreword to Psychology of Academic Cheating, edited by Eric M. Anderman and Tamera B. Murdock (Academic Press, 2006). [For a similar article, see "Who's Cheating Whom?"]
• Foreword to Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment by Maja Wilson (Heinemann, 2006). [For a similar article, see "The Trouble with Rubrics."]
• "NCLB and the Effort to Privatize Public Education," in Many Children Left Behind, edited by Deborah Meier and George Wood (Beacon Press, 2004). [For a similar article, see "Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow."]
• Foreword to Learning to Trust: Transforming Difficult Elementary Classrooms Through Developmental Discipline by Marilyn Watson (Jossey-Bass, 2003)
• Foreword to What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? by Susan Ohanian (McGraw-Hill, 2002)
• "Early Childhood Education: The Case Against Direct Instruction of Academic Skills," in The Schools Our Children Deserve (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)
• "A Look at Maslow's Basic Propositions," in Perceiving, Behaving, Becoming: Lessons Learned, edited by H. J. Freiberg (ASCD, 1999) (**)
• [autobiographical] Foreword to What to Look for in a Classroom...And Other Essays (Jossey-Bass, 1998)
• "Television and Children: ReViewing the Evidence," in What to Look for in a Classroom... And Other Essays (Jossey-Bass, 1998) (*)
• "The Trouble with Character Education," in The Construction of Children's Character - 96th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II, edited by A. Molnar (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997) [For a similar article, see "How Not to Teach Values."]
• "Cooperation: What It Means and Doesn't Mean," in Cooperation: Beyond the Age of Competition, edited by A. Combs (Gordon & Breach, 1992)

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(*) = included in What to Look for in a Classroom ... and Other Essays

(**) = included in What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? ... and Other Essays

(#) = included in Feel-Bad Education ... and Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling