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Date:
| Tue May 30 12:18:10 2000
| Name:
| Faye Cook
| E-mail:
| cook_f01@firn.edu
| Organization:
| Springhead Elementary School
| Location:
| Plant City, Florida
| How the site | was found: browsing for more infor. about Kohn
| Comments:
| I am in the midst of reading 'The Schools Our Children Deserve'. Completed 'Punished by Reward' several months ago. Currently I am in a state of disequilabriam, and trying to figure out out to meet the need to teach to our states 'high-stakes testing' and make my classroom a richer, more relevant place for my students. Kohn's material raises many questions for me, but getting a handle on making day to day changes still eludes me. Faye
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Date:
| Mon May 29 23:28:54 2000
| Name:
| Savanna Judd-Mangum
| E-mail:
| sneeches@cruzio.com
| Organization:
| YMCA of the Redwoods
| Location:
| Santa Cruz, California
| How the site | was found: from latest book flap
| Comments:
| How does your message of a democratic child-centered educational process relate to a childcare program? What do people think of the Positive Discipline series of books coauthored by Jane Nelsen?
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Date:
| Mon May 29 23:00:27 2000
| Name:
| Dr.R.D.B.(Ben)Laime
| E-mail:
| BLAIME@aol.com
| Organization:
| The WASHITO Group
| Location:
| Albuquerque, NM. 87109
| How the site | was found: an article in USA Today
| Comments:
| Sent you a note of congratulations and you sent me the name of a woman in New Mexico who is interested in school reform(as am I). She has never responded. Do you have a telephone number. Believe her name was Brown. Some folks are a wee bit uppity, and "experts" bore the hell out of me. You and I are in total,or nearly total agreement. At present my collegue and I are working on getting some changes made. Politicians know some damn little what goes on in schools. The Japanese are laughing at us. They are trying to get rid of their rigid standardized test and here we are getting in the mix. Same with grades. Educators, however, are so slow to accept change. Enough. Cheers, Dr. Ben Laime in ABQ(505-332-4613). I do sub teaching in ABQ public schools. The Terra Nova tests given here are outrageous. Some kids are baulking.
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Date:
| Mon May 29 21:01:31 2000
| Name:
| LEON AVRECH
| E-mail:
| legendleon@aol.com
| Organization:
| Calif. Retired Teachers Assoc.
| Location:
| San Jose, CA
| How the site | was found: Mercury News article
| Comments:
| I totally agree with you regarding standardized tests and teaching to the test. It is nothing more than a political football.Districts are hiring "consultants" full time to pass the tests. What happened to trusting the professionalism of the teacher. As a mentor teacher in US History, the SAT9 did not even test 8th grade knowledge from the state curriculum. Let's get back to real teaching and keep the politicians out of the classroom.
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Date:
| Mon May 29 17:35:32 2000
| Name:
| Alan Thomas
| E-mail:
| AlanDottwo@aol.com
| Organization:
| music teacher-Dade County Public Schools
| Location:
| Miami
| How the site | was found: aol search engine
| Comments:
| I've read Punished By Rewards,
No Contest, and The Schools Our Children
Deserve. I'm a huge fan!
Any chance you'll be speaking in Miami?
(I saw that you'd be in Tampa )
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Date:
| Mon May 29 15:08:59 2000
| Name:
| Matt James
| E-mail:
| azenhog@yahoo.com
| Organization:
| Dolores Huerta Learning Academy
| Location:
| Oakland, CA
| How the site | was found: San Jose Mercury News article
| Comments:
| Thank you for your hard work on an uphill battle! We just finished 10 days of test preperation followed by 15 days of standardized tests (STAR9 and SABE)and another 5 days reviewing all the material that was forgotten during the testing frenzy. Let me do the math for you. That is 30 out of 180 days of education wasted on testing, nearly 20% of the school year! Talk about dumbing down!
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Date:
| Mon May 29 14:26:17 2000
| Name:
| Teri Hollingsworth
| E-mail:
| artandteri@home.com
| Organization:
| ACCESS/OCDE
| Location:
| Orange County California
| How the site | was found: Search Engine
| Comments:
| I support your efforts and would like to help in anyway I can. Standards are creeping into alternative education now as we reach for accreditation. This can only further hurt our already struggling students.
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Date:
| Mon May 29 13:14:03 2000
| Name:
| Pam Bateman
| E-mail:
| pbateman@fiaaz.net
| Organization:
| Civano Community School
| Location:
| Tucson AZ
| How the site | was found: Through Lewis and Clark College
| Comments:
| Love reading the books, and getting support for the things I am doing and the knowing that I have about kids and how they learn. I am interested in any lectures or workshops in the Phoenix or Tucson area. Anything in the works right now?
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Date:
| Mon May 29 10:44:43 2000
| Name:
| Cecilia M. Armas
| E-mail:
| matskoc@yahoo.com
| Organization:
| teacher
| Location:
| Morgan Hill/Gilroy California
| How the site | was found: newspaper
| Comments:
| I was relieved and happy to read a little about your views. I am an experienced and creative teacher. I love teaching. I had to move from LA and I am feeling so lost! These new program are awful!!! I think they want "Stepford Teachers" and I just don't fit in. Every class I taught said I was the best teacher they ever had. I know if you are a teacher you are creative, fun, and interested in children. We do not need a script!!! HELP!
Cecilia
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Date:
| Mon May 29 02:12:12 2000
| Name:
| James Powell, Ph.D.
| E-mail:
| jepowell@jps.net
| Organization:
| Psychologist-self employed
| Location:
| Placerville, CA 95667
| How the site | was found: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU
| Comments:
| i would like to know what is going on at this web site. I am interested in resisting the dangerous "reforms " being thrust upon California schools.
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Date:
| Fri May 26 23:19:48 2000
| Name:
| L
| E-mail:
| lmarro@k12.d200.il.us
| Organization:
| monroe
| Location:
| usa
| How the site | was found:
| Comments:
| enjoy alfie's stuff...
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Date:
| Fri May 26 14:09:11 2000
| Name:
| Roland Sharette
| E-mail:
| rjsharette@aol.com
| Organization:
| Colorado Vocal Jazz Society
| Location:
| Colorado
| How the site | was found: referred by friend
| Comments:
| The move towards standards that rely on school testing and evaluation seems to accomplish two things in the process: penalize schools with minority and welfare supported populations, and moving the determination of excellence from 'well rounded culturally oriented' curricula to an inappropriate emphasis on testing criteria at the expense of the arts and social education -- a set-up for dangerous school environments.
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Date:
| Fri May 26 13:24:21 2000
| Name:
| Cindy Charest
| E-mail:
| ccharest@maine.rr.com
| Organization:
| none
| Location:
| Maine
| How the site | was found: knew it already
| Comments:
| Pam Leo (parenting educator you met in Rockport) just read an excerpt to me that might interest you. It's from a book, "Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children, " by Daniel A. Hughes. On pages 213 and 214 the counterproductiveness of praise is discussed. AFter hearing many people say that they feel kids, especially those who "don't get enough attention," need lots of praise, I was pleased to see somebody (besides you!) disagree.
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Date:
| Thu May 25 13:13:31 2000
| Name:
| anne olcott
| E-mail:
| aolcott@earthlink.net
| Organization:
|
| Location:
|
| How the site | was found: luck
| Comments:
| so happy to have found the article entitled "discipline is the problem not the solution". Perfect length and complexity so that my son's kindergarten teacher will actually read it!
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Date:
| Mon May 22 23:26:05 2000
| Name:
| peter amaral
| E-mail:
| pamaral@pointecom.net
| Organization:
| none
| Location:
| brenham texas
| How the site | was found: referred by education enthuiast
| Comments:
| wish you'd come to texas to speak
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Date:
| Mon May 22 20:53:24 2000
| Name:
| Cindy Charest
| E-mail:
| ccharest@maine.rr.com
| Organization:
| none
| Location:
| Westbrook, ME
| How the site | was found: knew it already
| Comments:
| reading guestbook
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Date:
| Sun May 21 01:56:19 2000
| Name:
| Christine Scoleri
| E-mail:
| CScoleri@aol.com
| Organization:
| UC Davis student teacher
| Location:
| Davis, CA
| How the site | was found: Searching for Alfie Kohn
| Comments:
| Alfie, you're my hero! It is very disheartening to be entering the teaching profession amidst the Dark Ages of Education. You inspire, you motivate, and you educate. You give me hope that soon we will be able to end this current regression in education and continue on the forward path towards a more progressive approach to educating students.
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Date:
| Sat May 20 10:20:57 2000
| Name:
| Lee Marro
| E-mail:
| lmarro@avenew.com
| Organization:
| Monroe Middle School
| Location:
| Wheaton, IL
| How the site | was found: from book and workshop
| Comments:
| Got to hear Alfie speak last March. Was completely impressed. He walks the talk - how refreshing!!
Would like to e-mail like-minded people about issues like local assessments, alternatives to grades, or creating a democratic classroom. I also train in Taekwon-Do and am interested in developing a program that incorporates the art into my classroom.
Responses would be welcome. Thanks.
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Date:
| Thu May 18 01:34:01 2000
| Name:
| L. Brent Christensen, MAEd
| E-mail:
| bchrist@xmission.com
| Organization:
| David County School District
| Location:
| Farmington, Utah
| How the site | was found: ASCD
| Comments:
| It is nice to hear someone sane talk about school based standards et al.
Thank you.
LBC
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Date:
| Mon May 15 12:47:20 2000
| Name:
| Jane Meade-Roberts
| E-mail:
| Sandbox202@aol.com
| Organization:
| Under Construction Educational Network, Inc.
| Location:
| Salinas, CA
| How the site | was found: Through a colleague
| Comments:
| CALIFORNIA needs help. We are turning the pages of educatinal practice back to the 50's. It didn't work before for many of us middle class kids, how can if possibily work for the diverse group of learners we have currently in our classrooms.
Suggestions of how to begin to turn this awfulness around will be greatly appreciated. We are practically chasing good teachers out of schools .
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Date:
| Mon May 15 12:43:16 2000
| Name:
| Reza Ziaee
| E-mail:
| reza.ziaee@bannerhealth.com
| Organization:
| Banner Health System
| Location:
| Phoenix, Arizonz
| How the site | was found: Den
| Comments:
| Currently in all organizations using extrinsic incentives to motivate staff. How a person can educate the leadership that Tool Box (Goodies Box) is not the right answer to the staff delinquence.
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Date:
| Mon May 15 09:05:10 2000
| Name:
| Nancy Macdonald
| E-mail:
| nancym@uscsumter.edu
| Organization:
| University of South Carolina Sumter
| Location:
| Sumter, SC 29150
| How the site | was found: article by Richard Colvin, circulated by friend
| Comments:
| I have a 13 year old son. I disagree with Hirsch that my relative affluence gives him facts he knows that others need to be taught. On the contrary my affluence has allowed me the assertiveness and knowledge to give him opportunities less affluent children do not have to explore and learn on their own. Were it not for his own learning, the teaching-to-tests approach would leave him truly ignorant. The tests have destroyed the classroom, led stressed teachers to pressure stressed kids who live in constant fear of failing. We will pay the price. When people want to know why this generation is so angry they should stop looking at video games and look at the educational culture which harasses them with educational standards and zero tolerance policies. This generation is scared and angry and I do not blame them.
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Date:
| Sun May 14 09:04:48 2000
| Name:
| Suzanne Neuman
| E-mail:
| suzanne@boulderparent.com
| Organization:
| Enjoy Your Children More!
| Location:
| Boulder, Colorado
| How the site | was found: google search
| Comments:
| Just finished reading Punished by Rewards - I'm reeling! I'm a parent educator and have been moving in this direction, but without the research base that's provided in this book. Now I've got to review my materials, work harder with my own kids and figure out if I change schools for my child or not.
Do Waldorf schools eschew grades and other reward based systems? anyone know?
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Date:
| Sat May 13 16:32:03 2000
| Name:
| John Price
| E-mail:
| jpricewi@execpc.com
| Organization:
| John Price & Associates
| Location:
| Wisconsin
| How the site | was found: Dogpile Search Engine
| Comments:
| I have become a standards heretic. I was a co-chair of Wisconsin's English Language Arts standards project. I have an essay I want to send you.
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Date:
| Fri May 12 16:29:37 2000
| Name:
| Geoffrey Garren
| E-mail:
| geoffwayne@hotmail.com
| Organization:
| Student
| Location:
| Shasta College
| How the site | was found: Found an article in Parent magazine. Then did a search on Alfie Kohn
| Comments:
| I would like to say that the research I have been involved in with child developement has been very interesting and now that I have read into Alfie's work I have a better understanding. Thank You Very much.
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Date:
| Wed May 10 23:12:42 2000
| Name:
| Molly Kilkenny
| E-mail:
| mck@oregon.k12.wi.us
| Organization:
| Oregon School District
| Location:
| Oregon, WI
| How the site | was found: by searching for Alfie Kohn with Snap search engine
| Comments:
| I have never read anything like Alfie Kohn's published works on how to effectively change behavior without the use of bribing and punishing. This is what works and needs to be implemented in every school!
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Date:
| Wed May 10 00:52:15 2000
| Name:
| Krista Luckett
| E-mail:
| kel-now@home.com
| Organization:
| Parent/Early Childhood Educator
| Location:
| Oklahoma City
| How the site | was found: I've read a number of Alfie Kohn books.
| Comments:
| I am a fed up, frustrated parent and early childhood educator. My 9-year-old son can't solve any problem without multiple choices. We live in the areas "best" district and the curriculum is largely made up of worksheets.
I also know how our district does so well on the standardized test. From January until late March, test time, my son is given worksheets that look identical to the test. They even use library time to get in extra practice. I have to do something.
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Date:
| Mon May 8 15:01:18 2000
| Name:
| Angela Rembert
| E-mail:
| ARembert1
| Organization:
| Miles College Education Club
| Location:
| 3800 Myron Massey Blvd.
| How the site | was found: A friend
| Comments:
| I am enjoying browsing this website.
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Date:
| Mon May 8 11:40:55 2000
| Name:
| sarah rogers
| E-mail:
|
| Organization:
|
| Location:
|
| How the site | was found: reading one of Afie's books
| Comments:
| your books are wonderful! Thanks.
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Date:
| Fri May 5 13:23:03 2000
| Name:
| Mark Ide
| E-mail:
| mark_ide@consultant.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Newton, MA
| How the site | was found: looked you up
| Comments:
| I'm reading, The Schools our Children Deserve. My 9 year old Son Kenny just started at the Sudbury Valley School.
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Date:
| Fri May 5 05:32:11 2000
| Name:
| Mark Butterworth
| E-mail:
| johnmark7@jps.net
| Organization:
| self
| Location:
| Sacramento, CA
| How the site | was found: from Punished by Rewards back cover
| Comments:
| I read your book with interest. I had years ago concluded that competition did more evil than good, and I raised my daughter in the very ways your book suggested since I didn't want to be a controlling, manipulative punisher or rewarder. My daughter has thrived as a person and our relationship is near perfect even though she is a teenager which people always warned me would be dreadful.
I told them I've loved her every step of the way, and I see no reason that should change or that she should suddenly 'go bad' or wild. She hasn't and she won't. She has too much self-respect and confidence. She has developed wonderful talents in the arts and math. She does great schoolwork and gets straight A's because she wants to; not because I care. I don't. She gets them even though she knows it causes resentment from others because she also knows, the system loves people with good grades and she wants more options to apply to various colleges. She does well, though, because she can't help wanting to do her best at what she does even when the work is tedius.
She does wish that the teachers would make things interesting, but she looks out for herself and pursues drama with a passion, immersing herself in theater, reading Shakespeare like others read comic books.
But my main reason for writing is to say that although I agree and knew myself that the world was crazy in its schemes to 'make' people behave and do what others want them to do, I can't see how the answers of reform can have much impact.
In the late Sixties, I was a High School rebel who was part of a group that published an underground High School newspaper in Milwaukee. Our first issue had a long feature called, Student as Nigger. It was a radical piece meant to show how schools treated people no better than slaves (and worse than pets in many cases).
I knew a long time ago that the system was meant to make us conform to the Party Line about they way things work through competition and sticks or carrots.
I beat my head for years trying to get people to understand the system was completely inhuman, but no one believed me and thought me mad. I said things like - we were meant to be creative, cooperative, kind and compassionate to each other, sharing and generous and that we were instead divided to compete against each other for stupid rewards like money or power (which hurts more than helps the owner) or recognition.
Just as you wrote about praise. Our pastor often praises the church choir I'm in from the pulpit. And we are a good choir, but somehow his praise always strikes me as phony since it makes him look beneficient for extending it and has no meat in it since, the choir is excluded from all liturgical decisions; we have no budget for expenses, improvements, instruments, or to hire on special or non special occasions. He pays us lip service and looks good doing it, but we get nothing. Even the choir members think he really likes us because he says so. I don't dare tell them that his praise is meaningless, distracting, beside the point since we don't sing to be applauded, or kind of evil in its own way and self-serving. The parishioners who don't know him think he's the nicest man.
Also, my wife is an elementary teacher who has just started reading your book (that's how I saw it). It takes great courage for her to read it because she knows she's been doing most of what you condemn. That's why I have never visited her classroom. I never wanted to see her teaching in a manner, I would disapprove of. She is a good teacher, though, and highly dedicated to helping children learn, and I respect her greatly.
She wonders how she can change her ways in her school. I told her she can only change what she's doing a little so long as she doesn't rock the boat and become a pariah as I tend to be when I stand up for humanity.
We live in a world where the sins of the fathers are perpetually visited upon the children. The wounds just keep getting inflicted and no teacher can hope to overcome what society and parents are doing to their kids.
I am glad to see that I am not alone in my vision of what it means to really be human, and that my faith in Jesus supports it even though he has been made to appear to be a punisher and rewarder, too, by so many including those who wrote the New Testament.
So I now preach the kingdom of heaven and the Lord's Prayer in my fiction and poetry and essays; and I wait for heaven and perfect communion with those who have come to realize what our real destiny as humans is - to be all those things I mentioned before.
I give up on changing the world and hope to influence a few people here and there, if I can, to become people who do not punish and reward like cheap tin gods who think control and rigid order is what life calls for.
I wish you well, and I'm glad you can make a living preaching the Truth. I hope you have personal resources of faith and prayer to sustain you, refresh you, and console you and your family through all the difficulties, and to find thanks for all the beauty, love, and blessings.
Mark
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Date:
| Thu May 4 18:31:10 2000
| Name:
| Dr. Joel D. Davidson
| E-mail:
| jdavids@wesd.k12.az.us
| Organization:
| Washington School District
| Location:
| Phoenix, Arizona
| How the site | was found: looked up alternative education
| Comments:
| Need information on alternative education programs for students who are suspended/expelled from school. Better way to deal with suspensions rather than have students miss instrucitonal time for infractions of district policy.
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Date:
| Thu May 4 17:55:12 2000
| Name:
| Rod Dudley
| E-mail:
| roddudley@ttlc.net
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Nottingham, NH
| How the site | was found: Principal of local school
| Comments:
| Please keep up the good work. It's a
long road between our present school environment and the ideals represented by Alfie, but a road that desperately needs to be traveled.
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Date:
| Thu May 4 12:27:16 2000
| Name:
| David Olson
| E-mail:
| dolson@ssd.k12.mn.us
| Organization:
| Stewartville Schools
| Location:
| Stewartville, MN
| How the site | was found: I've read Alfie's books
| Comments:
| Is Alfie coming to Winona, MN this fall?
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Date:
| Wed May 3 22:18:34 2000
| Name:
| Cherie L. Burau
| E-mail:
| cburau @daemen.edu
| Organization:
| Spec. Education
| Location:
| Amherst, New York
| How the site | was found: Netscape
| Comments:
| Researching Behavior Management Techniques
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Date:
| Tue May 2 13:14:08 2000
| Name:
| ANDI
| E-mail:
|
| Organization:
| SELF
| Location:
|
| How the site | was found: READ ONE OF THE BOOKS
| Comments:
| TALKING ABOUT STANDARDIZED TESTING, I AM
SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I AM HAVING DIFFICULTY PASSING THE ETS/PRAXIS TEST FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATION!
I HAVE A 3.4 GPA, I BELONG TO A NATIONAL EDUCATION HONOR SOCIETY, I HAVE HIGH RECOMMENDATIONS AND I CAN'T SEEM TO PASS THIS TEST. I HAVE TAKEN IT FOUR TIMES. I AM NOW WAITING THE RESULTS OF THE TEST I TOOK RECENTLY. THE ETS PURPOSELY TRICKS PEOPLE WHO TAKE THE TEST. THE QUESTIONS ARE WORDED FUNKY AND ALL OF THE ANSWERS LOOK CORRECT. I CAN'T EVEN FIND SOME OF THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS IN ANY OF MY EDUCATION BOOKS! WHAT BIRD BRAIN CAME UP WITH THE IDEA THAT US TEACHERS MUST PASS A TEST IN ORDER TO TEACH? IT IS EITHER YOU HAVE IT OR YOU DON'T! I HAVE SEEN THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED THE TEST AND I DON'T THINK THEY ARE SMARTER THEN ME, OR CREATIVE THEN ME, OR COMMITTED TO EDUCATION THEN ME. WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO THIS? OUR NATION NEEDS TEACHERS BADLY; HOWEVER, IF SOME OF US CAN'T PASS THE TEST WHAT HAPPENS TO US?
MR. KOHN, PLEASE PUBLISH YOUR SUGGESTIONS ON THIS SITE SINCE I DON'T HAVE A PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS. THANKS.
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Date:
| Tue May 2 00:17:56 2000
| Name:
| Erin Soler
| E-mail:
| moment_in_the_woods@yahoo.com
| Organization:
| Moment in the Woods Productions
| Location:
| Florida
| How the site | was found: Essay in The Sondheim Review
| Comments:
| Thank you for writing "The Case for Sondheim-as-existentialist." I really enjoyed your essay. Often I have made similar connections between my favorite musical theatre composer and existentialism, but they were never fully realized in my mind. Your writing made things click. I found that some of my favorite parts of favorite songs were similar on yet another level. (The parts of Move On and Moments in the Woods that you quoted in your essay.) I just wanted to say thanks and let you know I enjoyed it.
~Erin~
-Theatre Student.-
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Date:
| Wed Apr 26 13:40:04 2000
| Name:
| Linda H. Pratt
| E-mail:
| prattini@worldnet.att.net
| Organization:
| North East Independent School District
| Location:
| San Antonio, Texas
| How the site | was found: Through team teacher/book/journal article
| Comments:
| Very excited there is a professional who truly believes what has been in my heart since I began my second career... teaching. I'm going right out and purchase your new book! YaHoo!
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Date:
| Wed Apr 26 12:15:03 2000
| Name:
| Dave Huysman
| E-mail:
| dhuys046@neisd.net
| Organization:
| North East Ind. School District
| Location:
| San Antonio, TX
| How the site | was found: Article in FOCUS magazine
| Comments:
| Enjoyed your book: Punished by Rewards and appreciate the amount of information on your web-page.
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Date:
| Tue Apr 25 22:20:45 2000
| Name:
| Nancy Blanford
| E-mail:
| nblanford@earthlink.net
| Organization:
| Urbana School District #116
| Location:
| Urbana,IL
| How the site | was found: I searched for it.
| Comments:
| I've been teaching in the elementary schools for 28 years. Over and over, I say or think, "They just don't get it." "They" can refer to legislators, colleagues, administrators, parents, or anyone else who voices an opinion about education. When I heard Alfie Kohn on NPR, I exclaimed, "He gets it!" Who else out there gets it?
Nancy Blanford
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Date:
| Tue Apr 25 13:00:16 2000
| Name:
| Ken L. Spear
| E-mail:
| klspear_64@yahoo.com
| Organization:
| The Montgomery Advertiser
| Location:
| Montgomery, Ala.
| How the site | was found: Heard Mr. Kohn speak at EWA meeting
| Comments:
| I notice Alabama is not on the list of state coordinators, which is a surprise. This state has some of the best examples of vertical standards. For instance, the high school graduation exam or exit exam as part of the Education Accountability Act has upped its standards from the eighth-grade to the 11th-grade level. In theory, that's a good thing. But in reality, this is only prompting students to drop out of high school. Much stock is also placed in the Stanford-9, the state's yardstick to determine the effectiveness of schools and systems. To save face, some educators are and have been investigated for cheating.
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Date:
| Tue Apr 25 07:00:54 2000
| Name:
| Alberto López Navarro
| E-mail:
| alopezn@computer.org
| Organization:
| IEEE - Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers
| Location:
| Bydgoszcz, Poland
| How the site | was found: Search in AltaVista
| Comments:
| I've read the abstract of 'Punished by Reward' and I believe it would be a shocker if some of the executives at the company for which I work only had a look at it, as the whole corporate culture is based on a 'pay-for-performance', reward based system.
At the risk of looking a bit paranoid, I tend to think that rewards fulfill another (maybe more important) function than improving performance: by fostering a highly competitive atmosphere, workers are divided and in that way kept off from developing a too reivindicative attitude.
Best regards,
Alberto
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Date:
| Mon Apr 24 22:45:10 2000
| Name:
| Bob DeBuhr
| E-mail:
| bdebuhr@jawbone.clarkston.wednet.edu
| Organization:
| Clarkston School District
| Location:
| Clarkston, Washington
| How the site | was found: Milken website
| Comments:
| After 30 years I have leaved that we don't learn from the past - we just reinvent it. Why didn't we get it the first time?
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Date:
| Mon Apr 24 11:27:33 2000
| Name:
| Bethany A. Kirch
| E-mail:
| Kirch@northnet.org
| Organization:
| Parent
| Location:
| Lewis County, New York (Lowville)
| How the site | was found: Listened to WBUR broadcast
| Comments:
| Hi, Well to start I listened to the broadcast on the Standards movement, and I have a few questions to ask you.
1.) My son is in 8th grade now and has difficulty in reading and writing. I know with the new standards this is going to really effect him. Isn't this testing unfair to kids such as him, because the teachers in k-6 probably didn't teach all these things before, and now he will have to take one test to determine wether he gets a diploma or not. Tell me how does that seem right?
2.) I also would like Mr. Howard's E-Mail address if you have it, because I do not agree with him. If they want to begin this testing maybe they could begin it in the Kindergarten level of teaching, so for example start with the children comming in the year 2001. This is not a cop out from me as a parent, but it does seem that it should begin at the kindergarten level, and follow straight up through high school. Does this make sense? Lets say you have a child such as my son, poor in reading and language arts, does this testing mean that 1 he won't graduate, or 2 that children such as him will be put in special classroom settings, and if so who is going to pay for all this special education? What are the schools going to do for the child that has slipped through the cracks, what about Harlem for example. We already know they don't have the technology that the wealthy schools have, don't people care?????
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Date:
| Mon Apr 24 09:41:43 2000
| Name:
| Gilda Lyon
| E-mail:
| gdlyon@yahoo.com
| Organization:
| Athens Drive High School
| Location:
| Raleigh, NC
| How the site | was found: It was referred to in your latest book.
| Comments:
| I am returning to Tennessee to teach next year where "standards" have just gotten a foothold. I will be returning with a new mission- to abolish standardized tests. Since I have been in N.C. I realize the danger & destruction standardized testing is contributing to the intellectual development of our children. I see no joy for learning in my high school kids. They are so hungry for a grade they will do any ridiculous assignment teachers ask them to do without any question as to its purpose or intent. They have sadly become cattle lined up for slaughter & do not realize that it is our schools & the testing that is enforced on us all that is slaughtering their imagination & intellect.
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Date:
| Sat Apr 22 16:40:56 2000
| Name:
| xFCAT
| E-mail:
| xfcat@xfcat.com
| Organization:
| Parents and Educators Concerned with Florida Academic Testing
| Location:
| Florida
| How the site | was found: How could we miss it!
| Comments:
| Keep up the good work! We're just launching our site, xfcat.com, to raise awareness about Florida's public school testin and grading system.
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Date:
| Fri Apr 21 09:25:28 2000
| Name:
| Dana Haynes
| E-mail:
| dhaynes@statesmanjournal.com
| Organization:
| Statesman Journal
| Location:
| Salem, Oregon
| How the site | was found: Heard you speak
| Comments:
| I attended the Education Writers Association conference in Atlanta. Your talk was informative and fascinating. I would have liked to see you on a panel, debating the flaws of high-stakes testing.
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Date:
| Thu Apr 20 15:46:00 2000
| Name:
| Gary L. McIntire
| E-mail:
| gmcintire@thegrid.net
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| California
| How the site | was found: Newspaper articles
| Comments:
| Terms such as "accountability" and "tougher academic standards" are the useless rhetoric of the frustrated bourgeois who are intent on maintaining an American culture that has never existed. To suggest that "raising the bar," will force children to learn more (in the logically necessary less time)and will assure a well educated population of workers is a fallacy. Doing so will actually do nothing more than limit the entrance into the middle class by allowing fewer to earn a high school diploma.
I agree with Mr. Kohn. Horizontal change is necessary to improve our schools. Movement away from the traditional classroom with an emphasis upon rote learning and structured pedagogy will best improve our schools if replaced with a child centered, science-based approach which accommodates the diverse learning needs of all children.
Let's take the money now totally wasted on standardized tests, and the system set up to monitor the results, and turn those funds into new programs that are based on sound principles of learning.
Medical practitioners don't let the legislature dictate how medicine is practiced. Lawyers don't practice law based on the decree from non-lawyers. Educators need to educate, and educators need to define how to teach children. Educators also need to let politicians know what they need to do the job right, and politicians need to deliver adequate funding to let it happen. Our system now works in the reverse.
Massive change is the only means for real progress for our children and our nation. Standards and testing are the response of the pedogogically-impaired to change a system they know nothing about. Education for children won't change until the education of the public and our law makers about the true needs of our schools takes place.
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Date:
| Wed Apr 19 19:13:56 2000
| Name:
| murph
| E-mail:
|
| Organization:
| parent
| Location:
| norhteast ohio
| How the site | was found: friend
| Comments:
| happy to see someone fighting for our children.
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Date:
| Tue Apr 18 03:40:18 2000
| Name:
| noeleen
| E-mail:
| cosimoblue@yahoo.com
| Organization:
| mom
| Location:
| west vancouver, b.c.
| How the site | was found: a glowing article in the suzuki ass. journal
| Comments:
| thankyou for your insightfull work. how challenging it is to be a reasonable parent and decent employer! As young entrepreneurs, my partner and i have run into no end of difficulties with our staff of 65. motivation and money are horribly sensitive issues in every moment of our days. blech. hopefully some late night reading will help guide us through this crazy time. I would love to know if indeed you will have a speaking date here in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Thank you Thank you - I am refreshed knowing that tommorrow I will be stepping closer to an enlightened upbringing for my small children.
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Date:
| Mon Apr 17 17:59:38 2000
| Name:
| Carin Fluur
| E-mail:
| carin.fluur@swipnet.se
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Göteborg/ Sweden
| How the site | was found: I occasionally found his book punished by...
| Comments:
| I have become very interested in your ideas about teaching and I would like to read all of your books. I work as a teacher at a motessori school in Sweden and we don't give grades and I find many of his ideas that justifie why it is right not to do so.
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Date:
| Sat Apr 15 19:14:08 2000
| Name:
| Charlotte Webb
| E-mail:
| Wild_Flower_66@hotmail.com
| Organization:
| Roanoke City Schools
| Location:
| Roanoke, VA
| How the site | was found: Announced at a lecture
| Comments:
| I was most impressed with Mr. Kohn's lecture at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, VA. I would have also liked for him to address some ways to work within the framework that I've been given. I understand that we must all work for change in our schools concerning the SOLs/standardized testing, but I also have to survive in my current situation. I loved the philosophical presentation but would also like some practical suggestions for handling my day-to-day program in my classroom.
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Date:
| Sat Apr 15 07:04:30 2000
| Name:
| Louise Burrell
| E-mail:
| indaburrell@hotmail.com
| Organization:
| Retired Teacher
| Location:
| Sylva, NC 28779
| How the site | was found: Yahoo
| Comments:
| Interested in speaking schedule
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Date:
| Fri Apr 14 21:34:23 2000
| Name:
| Anita Collins
| E-mail:
| B1371@aol.com
| Organization:
| J. L. Mann High School
| Location:
| Greenville, South Carolina
| How the site | was found: searching
| Comments:
| Thanks for all of your ideas.
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Date:
| Fri Apr 14 11:12:41 2000
| Name:
| Ron Nistler
| E-mail:
| RNis1018@aol.com
| Organization:
| Montana State University-Billings
| Location:
| Billings Montana
| How the site | was found: enc focus
| Comments:
| THANK GOD FOR ALFIE KOHN AND HIS WILLINGNESS TO SHARE HIS BELIEFS AND VALUES ON EDUCATIONAL ISSUES. HE TRULY UNDERSTANDS WHAT EDUCATION IS TODAY AND WHAT EDUCATION SHOULD BE TODAY. I WANT TO APPLAUD ALFIE AND ENCOURAGE HIM TO CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORD. HE IS A MESSENGER WITH A MESSAGE THAT IS GAINING SUPPORT
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Date:
| Tue Apr 11 22:14:16 2000
| Name:
| Hannah Kreiger-Benson
| E-mail:
| hubkub@aol.com
| Organization:
| FreeLearners
| Location:
| Belmont
| How the site | was found: From a friend
| Comments:
| Hi, I'm a member of the Teen Homeschooler's group who you're going to meet with on May 5. I was wondering, what should we read or think about to prepare for the meeting? Any suggestions would be great! Thanks! I really like your website!
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Date:
| Tue Apr 11 06:51:17 2000
| Name:
| John Bifolco
| E-mail:
| johnbiff@netscape.net
| Organization:
| Herricks High School
| Location:
| New Hyde Park, NY
| How the site | was found: attended workshop on 4/7
| Comments:
| enjoyed your workshop very much. brought me back to my early, passionate days as an educator. i do, however, have questions about our responsibility as instructional educators in the vision of the educational community you desire.
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Date:
| Mon Apr 10 08:36:17 2000
| Name:
| Charlie Glassman
| E-mail:
| cglassman@hotmail.com
| Organization:
| Murphy JHS-Three Villages SD
| Location:
| Stonybrook Long Island
| How the site | was found: Attended a conference
| Comments:
| Of your suggestions as to what might be effective in the fight against high stakes testing - boycotts by students and faculty would defiitely send a loud message
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Date:
| Sun Apr 9 15:58:05 2000
| Name:
| Gail Pruitt Borden
| E-mail:
| gborden@earthlink.net
| Organization:
| Northwoods Montessori
| Location:
| Decatur and Doraville--Atlanta, GA
| How the site | was found: hear talk at GA State
| Comments:
| referred a writer for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Patti Puckett, ppuckett@ajc.com, to your books as she had a very interesting article in "Local News" section of the paper Saturday about Montessori, highlighting her perceptions of the method of disciipline used.
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Date:
| Sun Apr 9 14:56:33 2000
| Name:
| Tom Green
| E-mail:
| do not want to give
| Organization:
| MTV
| Location:
| NYC
| How the site | was found: The new MTV search
| Comments:
| Well, being a comic, I don't see why this is a website that is usefull to me personally. My mother is a teacher though, so I'll pass this on to her.
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Date:
| Sun Apr 9 11:29:15 2000
| Name:
| Keith Boniface
| E-mail:
| kboniface@ais-antwerp.be
| Organization:
| Antwerp International School
| Location:
| Belgium
| How the site | was found: ASCD
| Comments:
| I find your ideas refreshing!
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Date:
| Fri Apr 7 22:52:05 2000
| Name:
| Michael Cartwright
| E-mail:
| mikecartwright@mindspring.com
| Organization:
| Libertarian Party of Georgia, Chair
| Location:
| Conyers, GA
| How the site | was found: Atlanta Area Deming Study Group
| Comments:
| What is the primary purpose of education? Are parents or government responsible for educating the youths in or society?
|
Date:
| Fri Apr 7 11:11:42 2000
| Name:
| Linda Holzbaur
| E-mail:
| ljholzbaur@yahoo.com
| Organization:
| New York Regulation Resistors
| Location:
| Ithaca NY
| How the site | was found: Z magazine article by Wayne Ross
| Comments:
| NY Regulation Resistors is a group of homeschooling parents who oppose the use of mandatory standardized testing as assessment for our children and all children in NY. We would like to join coalitions of other groups of parents, students, educators and other professionals in order to work together to stop the increased use of high stakes testing.
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Date:
| Thu Apr 6 16:24:55 2000
| Name:
| Toni Kuo
| E-mail:
| toni.l.kuo@lawrence.edu
| Organization:
| Lawrence University
| Location:
| Appleton, WI
| How the site | was found: wisconsin public radio broadcast
| Comments:
| I thoroughly enjoyed the broadcast! I found so many of Kohn's ideas and philosophies close to my own. Children deserve so much and we--as a part of the American educational institution--provide so little of that. It is so inspiring for me, an aspiring music teacher, to have heard Kohn's broadcast. I went out and purchased the book the very next day.
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Date:
| Thu Apr 6 14:27:59 2000
| Name:
| Doug MacLeod
| E-mail:
| dmac@massed.net
| Organization:
| Winthrop School
| Location:
| Ipswich, MA
| How the site | was found:
| Comments:
| Thank you for being a steady beacon in all the fog that is "Ed Reform" in Massachusetts.
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Date:
| Thu Apr 6 10:02:16 2000
| Name:
| Don Richmond
| E-mail:
| drichmon@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us
| Organization:
|
| Location:
|
| How the site | was found: read the article in Teacher magazine
| Comments:
| I'd like to send you a copy of the letter I've mailed to my governor, state atty. general, and several state senators, along with dozens and dozens of fellow teachers. I can't get anyone fired up, so I was elated to read your atricle that says, in effect, I'm not a complete nut case out here all alone. I'd like to share some of my reasons with you, and maybe get some additons/corrections. Can I get a snailmail address? Thanks.
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Date:
| Tue Apr 4 22:50:27 2000
| Name:
| Bob Schlaefer
| E-mail:
| BSchlaef@juno.com
| Organization:
| Winnequah Middle School
| Location:
| Monona, WI
| How the site | was found: internet search on Alfie Kohn
| Comments:
| I have read one of your books and saw you speak in Milwaukee a couple of years ago. I am very intrigued by many of your ideas. The whole idea of "punishing children by rewards" makes sense. It is difficult for me to convince my students and colleagues about this idea. When I saw you speak in Milwaukee you mentioned a study that was done on people that tried some special drink (kirsch?). Where could I find information on that study? I appreciate your ideas. Keep up the great work!
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Date:
| Mon Apr 3 21:55:11 2000
| Name:
| John Davidson
| E-mail:
| RoomUno@hotmail.com
| Organization:
| Victorian Education Dept
| Location:
| Australia
| How the site | was found: browsing net
| Comments:
| Read a review of 'Schools Ch'n Deserve' in Chicago paper Substance - terrific stuff.
You should come to Australia!
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Date:
| Mon Apr 3 10:19:33 2000
| Name:
| K. Kelso
| E-mail:
| Annwn99@aol.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Maryland
| How the site | was found: yahoo
| Comments:
| We have "standardized" high school county tests for most subjects that more than half the students fail. The teachers blame the students for not taking the tests seriously and want to increase the weight of the tests as part of the final grade in the class (it's already 17%). I read your latest book, and now I know my child isn't as stupid as she thinks she is based on the test scores. Wish I'd heard about progressive education 12 years ago.
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Date:
| Mon Apr 3 07:22:23 2000
| Name:
| Diane Black
| E-mail:
| diblack@greenfield.wcape.school.za
| Organization:
| Greenfield Girls' Primary School
| Location:
| Cape Town South Africa
| How the site | was found: via Audioed site
| Comments:
| i heard you lecture at the NAESP convention in Washington DC some years back. Your thoughts are refreshing and certainly challenging! Pleased to have found the site . Currently South Africa is undergoing major educational reform and your views on standards and standardised testing certainly need to be heard here!
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Date:
| Sun Apr 2 20:07:00 2000
| Name:
| Linda McGowan
| E-mail:
| lindamcg@bright.net
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Wadsworth, OH
| How the site | was found: Recommended by a friend
| Comments:
| I have found your site to be informative and valuable as we strive to change the proficiency test procedure in Ohio.
We appreciate the valuable work you have done in so many areas that affect our children.
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Date:
| Sat Apr 1 19:54:15 2000
| Name:
| Andrew
| E-mail:
| murray2ncweb.com
| Organization:
| student
| Location:
| Ohio
| How the site | was found: surfing web
| Comments:
| very interested in grass roots movement to take control of our schools back from the government.
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Date:
| Sat Apr 1 19:50:20 2000
| Name:
| Andrew
| E-mail:
|
| Organization:
| student
| Location:
| Ohio
| How the site | was found: surfing web
| Comments:
| none at this time
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Date:
| Fri Mar 31 15:18:11 2000
| Name:
| Gabrielle Dion-Kindem
| E-mail:
| dionkindem@aol.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| California
| How the site | was found: from your information
| Comments:
| We don't want our child to take the Stanford 9, but are concerned that if she does not, she may not be considered for the GATE program (high ability). What are your feelings about testing for the GATE program or their equivalent?
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Date:
| Thu Mar 30 18:54:06 2000
| Name:
| Eric Bergmann
| E-mail:
| eb5@aol.com
| Organization:
| Granite School District
| Location:
|
| How the site | was found: Teacher Magazine
| Comments:
| Long live Dewey
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Date:
| Thu Mar 30 08:47:23 2000
| Name:
| Mike Kluznik
| E-mail:
| mkluznik@hastings.k12.mn.us
| Organization:
| Hastings, MN public schools
| Location:
| Hastings, MN 55033
| How the site | was found: a friend
| Comments:
| You are a voice of sanity in a nation that has become obsessed with tests and standards. As a school psychologist, I am well aware of the limits of standardized tests. However, much of the standards/high stakes testing movement is based on non-standardized tests...the tests have not been normed, no relability studies have been done, test validity is quite questionable.
All that said, even if you had a good test, you would be no further ahead than if you didn't. As they say in the stockyards when animals are brought in for sale, "You can weigh a pig a hundred times and it still weighs the same."
Bore and Gush need a reality check. They are both running around like Chicken Little, telling us the sky is about to fall, and the only way to prevent this disaster is to test, test, and test again. The "Scold War" has taken the place of the Cold War, now that the Soviet Union has crumbled. With the Evil Empire gone, we now have an enemy within. To listen to the school critics, that enemy is the typical k-12 student who is badly in need of reform, etc. As Pogo once said, "We have seen the enemy, and it is us."
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Date:
| Thu Mar 30 06:18:17 2000
| Name:
| A. Collins
| E-mail:
| asjcollins@aol.com
| Organization:
| public school teacher
| Location:
| Georgia
| How the site | was found: A friend told me
| Comments:
| I read your book, "The Schools..." I am trying to get teachers/administrators in my system to read it. Disheartened by governor's lastest "educational reform" bill. Includes A, B, C, D, F ratings for all schools on the basis of test scores. Yet another step in the wrong direction? We are already almost completely teaching a test-driven curriculum. Apathy and boredom abound. Any other Georgians with ideas? PLEASE contact me! I have three young children who will be attending these schools.
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Date:
| Wed Mar 29 17:33:45 2000
| Name:
| Irv Besecker
| E-mail:
| besecker@sprynet.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Clemmons, NC
| How the site | was found: Schools Our Children Deserve
| Comments:
| I am the new state coordinator for NC. I am a high school teacher with a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations from UNCG. All Tarheels interested in working against ABC's please get in touch. Let's get started.
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Date:
| Tue Mar 28 13:26:19 2000
| Name:
| MaryAnne F. Gaunt
| E-mail:
| magaunt@gsu.edu
| Organization:
| Principals' Center
| Location:
| Georgia State Un iversity
| How the site | was found: heard about it during recent speech at GSU
| Comments:
| Thanks
|
Date:
| Mon Mar 27 13:52:48 2000
| Name:
| David Dall
| E-mail:
| dalldav@rhinelander.k12.wi.us
| Organization:
| School District of Rhinelander
| Location:
| Rhinelander, WI
| How the site | was found: Alfie gave it to me via Wisconsin Public Radio... THANKS
| Comments:
| I taught a very successful lesson this morning.I am a believer in the methods you encourage... but today... WOW! Everything clicked!
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Date:
| Mon Mar 27 10:40:29 2000
| Name:
| kathy arturo
| E-mail:
| karturo@mindspring.com
| Organization:
| Parent
| Location:
| Atlanta
| How the site | was found: Alfie mentioned it at his lecture
| Comments:
| Great lecture! Great books!
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Date:
| Mon Mar 27 09:46:59 2000
| Name:
| Don Watt
| E-mail:
| watt-d@nsk.com
| Organization:
| NSK-RHP bearings
| Location:
| United Kingdom
| How the site | was found: Deming Electronic Network Message
| Comments:
| Currently reading "Punished by Rewards"Excellent, thought provoking material
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Date:
| Sun Mar 26 21:08:21 2000
| Name:
| Melinda Grest
| E-mail:
| Grest@Mindspring.com
| Organization:
| The Murray-Grest School
| Location:
| Lawerencville, Ga
| How the site | was found: attended Alfie Kohn lecture at GSU
| Comments:
| Always interested in getting in contact with administrators/teachers who are using Alfie Kohn's approach. I am the co-founder of a small independent school in Georgia. Looking for support.
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Date:
| Sun Mar 26 15:21:01 2000
| Name:
| Robert Thomas
| E-mail:
| robyboxx@hotmail.com
| Organization:
| Sunfield School
| Location:
| Stourbridge, UK
| How the site | was found: Punished by Rewards book
| Comments:
| Hi!I am a Team leader runnig a house for 5 children with autism within a residential school. I have been delivering training for the last couple of years around behaviour/autism and have found that staff all seem latch on to rewards etc. Does anyone know how this concept 'rewards do not work' link into the TEACCH framework of working with autism? I would be interested to hear...?Anyway - it is a great book, even though I have just started it - it is familiar and raisises plenty of smiles!I will aim to pass on your work!Thanks,Rob Thomas.
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Date:
| Fri Mar 24 21:53:38 2000
| Name:
| Del Nelson
| E-mail:
| tqnelson@aol.com
| Organization:
| American River College
| Location:
| Sacramento, CA
| How the site | was found: Yahoo Search
| Comments:
| Greetings. Been a few years. Still promoting your work to my students (and on the Deming Electronic Network).
Del
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Date:
| Fri Mar 24 16:02:04 2000
| Name:
| Antonio Asato
| E-mail:
| aasato@unikousa.com
| Organization:
| Uniko Inc.
| Location:
| Livonia, MI
| How the site | was found: Reference from Psychology Class
| Comments:
| The root causes of why reward or incentives program can fail or even be a punishment to people in organizations are very interesting topics.
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Date:
| Thu Mar 23 23:48:41 2000
| Name:
| Mindy Beers
| E-mail:
| beers@arkansas.net
| Organization:
| Parent Group
| Location:
| Bentonville, AR
| How the site | was found: Friend
| Comments:
| A concerned group of parents formed to find out the truth as to what our children were being taught and why. We put four months worth of research into what information we sought and the things we found out the School Board was unaware of and so was the state. Parents must get involved in the education of their children. They must hold those in positions of power accountable for spending our tax dollars and teaching our children. The way to do this is not with the continual stress testing being done to our children, but with good common business sense. We eliminated double testing in our system. Some of our kids took two tests within three weeks. We eliminated the merit pay system for teachers test score increase because it failed. It failed internationally first and then has failed within the US repeatedly. We must not allow our politicos and educantists to continue to reinvent known failures using our money. There is an enormous amount of wasted spending. We eliminated school uniforms.
In Short, we are on the road to taking back our schools. It has been a long methodical process, but it has been worth it. It is time for the parents in America to start telling the academicians and politicians what we want our schools to be. We must stop allowing ourselves to be acted upon by uniformed individuals. Most current policy dictators have never been in a classroom. They have no business dictating how a classroom should be without spending time teaching in one.
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Date:
| Thu Mar 23 18:02:07 2000
| Name:
| B Hopkins
| E-mail:
| bhopkins@frco.k12.va.us
| Organization:
| Franklin County Schools
| Location:
| VA
| How the site | was found: from your book lecture at VA Western College
| Comments:
| no message
|
Date:
| Wed Mar 22 22:19:21 2000
| Name:
| Catherine Van Pelt
| E-mail:
| cvanpelt@vt.edu
| Organization:
| student in ECE
| Location:
| Blacksburg, VA
| How the site | was found: Attened a lecture at Virginia Western (SOL's)
| Comments:
| I loved the lecture about how the SOL's are dumbing down education! I want to be a teacher who teaches for understanding and not to pass a test.
|
Date:
| Wed Mar 22 21:41:52 2000
| Name:
| Melinda M. Beers
| E-mail:
| beers@arkansas.net
| Organization:
| Parent
| Location:
| Bentonville, AR 72712
| How the site | was found: A friend emailed it to me from Virginia
| Comments:
| I am delighted to finally see a voice of reason from within the politically correct re-engineering of public education. It doesn't pay to be on the "cutting edge"; another current term for progressive education, if we aren't even on the plate. I see more people bleeding from cutting edge of education today than I see successes. This includes the children. I have never seen such test frenzy in my life. We seem to have forgotten that there are artists, dancers, and musicians that help make our world more enjoyable. We seem to have forgotten that the brain surgeon can't operate when the plumbing is backed up. This push in modern education is an illusion trying to create a reality. Children simply don't learn the way they are being forced to learn today. The amazing thing about this small amount of knowledge I possess on how children learn, is that it comes from EDPSYCH101, a pure no brainer. The education profession which is currently being spurred along today by politics and only politics, can't
throw Piaget out the window. They are attempting to do this and kids are actually learning less. The biggest complaint by CEO's today, is that the new employee they get from colleges today cannot think for themselves. Why? They have never been taught how to do this. It is simply appalling. The "teaching to the test" mentality must go and so must go the politicians that are continually promoting nonsense attempts to re-engineer education simply by trying to reinvent it with the same tools that have already proven to be failures. Why the states and educational directors don't learn from each other is beyond me. Maybe they should go back to school. I'm sure they'd never pass the test!!!!!!!!!!
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Date:
| Wed Mar 22 20:58:14 2000
| Name:
| Sherry Graziani
| E-mail:
| SGraziani@tcainternet.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Bentonville, AR
| How the site | was found: referral
| Comments:
| Several months ago a group of parents started questioning our local "standards". Our superintendent was recently fired. We still have many questions, but are trying to stay informed!
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Date:
| Wed Mar 22 16:39:39 2000
| Name:
| David Henning
| E-mail:
| dvhenning@webtv.net
| Organization:
| Northwest Lutheran School
| Location:
| Milwaukee, WI
| How the site | was found: Footnotein your latest book
| Comments:
| I have read "Beyond Discipline" and "Schools Our Children Deserve". Agree with you wholeheartedly on the use of achievement tests. Don't use rewards or punishments in my third grade classroom- children help make decisions. Also love your sense of humor- your reference to Listerene and Drop Everything and Drill. Your writing style is well-reasoned and flows smoothly. I can't wait for your next book.
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Date:
| Wed Mar 22 07:54:53 2000
| Name:
| Bill Casile
| E-mail:
| casile@duq.edu
| Organization:
| Duquesne University
| Location:
| Pittsburgh, PA 15282
| How the site | was found: Ed Leadership/September 1999 interview
| Comments:
| Leaving for England to attend a conference on school leadership at Oxford on Friday. I go every almost year because I get to visit schools and meet with educators who are child centered and unabashedly progressive in their approach to learning and teaching. It is unfortunate that I find this experience rare.
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Date:
| Wed Mar 22 07:54:51 2000
| Name:
| Bill Casile
| E-mail:
| casile@duq.edu
| Organization:
| Duquesne University
| Location:
| Pittsburgh, PA 15282
| How the site | was found: Ed Leadership/September 1999 interview
| Comments:
| Leaving for England to attend a conference on school leadership at Oxford on Friday. I go every almost year because I get to visit schools and meet with educators who are child centered and unabashedly progressive in their approach to learning and teaching. It is unfortunate that I find this experience rare.
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Date:
| Tue Mar 21 19:11:33 2000
| Name:
| Laura Seasongood
| E-mail:
| seasongood@adnetsol.com
| Organization:
| drama enrichment teacher, elementary school & parks & rec
| Location:
| Moorpark, California
| How the site | was found: heard Mr. Kohn's lecture
| Comments:
| My apology for requesting articles emailed in my previously emailed request for your catalog; I just found your articles for printing on your website! I'll look up those which are not printable by links via my local library. Thanks!
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Date:
| Tue Mar 21 13:03:41 2000
| Name:
| Geoff McCarthy-Miller
| E-mail:
| gmccarthy-miller@swindsor.k12.ct.us
| Organization:
| Principal of Elementary School
| Location:
| South Windsor, Ct.
| How the site | was found: From Alfie at last night's presentation
| Comments:
| Thoroughly enjoyed your talk last night at Springfield College(3/20). As principal of a "co-operative school" I have utilized your work in our building of a caring community of students, teachers and parents. Good Luck in your quest to make people truly understand what "testing" is all about. I live in Longmeadow, Ma. and have children in the high school. My wife is a professor at Springfield College. We will now become actively involved in the MCAS battle!! Thanks for the inspiration. Geoff
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Date:
| Tue Mar 21 11:42:02 2000
| Name:
| Ron Hochmuth
| E-mail:
| hochmuth@hotmail.com
| Organization:
| Alexandria Central School
| Location:
| Alexandria Bay NY 12307
| How the site | was found: from the pamphlet "Principal"
| Comments:
| The true genius will be the one who discovers the formula or potion that balances the need for higher standards and the lost art of creative teaching. I was that creative teacher who "constucted" interesting projects in a learner centered way, but for everyone who was creative, the field of education produced as many duds - or to put it more apt - traditionalist who lectured students to death because that was the ,model they were trained in or reverted to when they met the old gaurd at their first job or realized it's easier to lecture than be creative. Anyways you're a voice of sanity in the wilderness, an iconoclast who has the courage to say "the king has no clothes." Good for you, keep the message alive. Oh by the way, I'm a principal who wants more teachers as you propose not the parrots of the new standards paragon.
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Date:
| Mon Mar 20 15:29:08 2000
| Name:
| Sharon Pierce
| E-mail:
| spierce@sd45.bc.ca
| Organization:
| West Vancouver School Board
| Location:
| 1075 - 21st Street, W Vancouver, BC CDA V7V 4A9
| How the site | was found:
| Comments:
| I understand Alfie Kohn will be speaking in Vancouver, BC in the Fall of 2000. Would you please advise me of the exact date. Thanks very much.
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Date:
| Mon Mar 20 12:17:31 2000
| Name:
| Paula Rogers
| E-mail:
| paulastang@aol.com
| Organization:
| teacher
| Location:
| Sioux Falls
| How the site | was found: from a class @ SWSU Marshall Mn.
| Comments:
| just signing in to see what is available
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Date:
| Mon Mar 20 08:06:31 2000
| Name:
| Laura Davis Turner
| E-mail:
| landcturner@aol.com
| Organization:
| Summit School
| Location:
| Winston-Salem, NC
| How the site | was found: just guessed
| Comments:
| I am looking for the latest data on how competition, awards, etc. inhibit learning. My school is getting into spelling bees and other dreadful practices. I am the Guidance Counselor. Thanks
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Date:
| Sat Mar 18 19:53:49 2000
| Name:
| Lee Marro's Dad
| E-mail:
| dave_kathie_samuelson@yahoo.com
| Organization:
| Life
| Location:
| Chicago
| How the site | was found: Lee Marro
| Comments:
| We are looking forward to hours of give and take on the subject of testing etc.
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Date:
| Sat Mar 18 19:53:15 2000
| Name:
| Lee Marro's Dad
| E-mail:
| dave_kathie_samuelson@yahoo.com
| Organization:
| Life
| Location:
| Chicago
| How the site | was found: Lee Marro
| Comments:
| We are looking forward to hours of give and take on the subject of testing etc.
|
Date:
| Fri Mar 17 14:45:02 2000
| Name:
| Fred Bartlett
| E-mail:
| fbart@sprynet.com
| Organization:
| Just a parent ...
| Location:
| Trenton, NJ
| How the site | was found: back cover of Punished by Rewards, 2nd ed.
| Comments:
| I am of two minds about your ideas. On the one hand, it is obvious that "drill'n'kill" is deadly dull and inimical to any form of thinking; on the other, the progressive classrooms you describe are extremely dependent on the quality and knowledge of the teacher. And I am not convinced that any but a very small minority of teachers have the intellectual wherewithal to do it well; certainly the education courses they have attended militate against any form of teaching not bound to a book.
Nor am I convinced that drill -- even boring drill -- has no place in education: consider learning how to play a musical instrument. There is, simply, no way to do it without many, many hours of often-excruciating drill.
And the prospect of being forced to teach my duller compeers would hardly have motivated me as a kid. Any such interaction that occurred between me and one of my none-too-swift fellow students would have ended in tears: mine, of frustration; his, of humiliation.
Finally, it seems that neither you nor your "Old School" opponents make falsifiable claims. For whenever a progressive class fails, you tell us, "No, that wasn't _really_ progressive" -- but whenever a traditional class fails, Hirsch (for instance) tells us, "No, that wasn't _really_ traditional" (or "core knowledge", I guess).
What are the chances that I could get you and Hirsch to run a pair of equivalent schools according to your different pedagogies and see which comes out best? I suspect that, in practice, you each would recognize many attributes of your own pedagogy in the others.
Not that I would want you to _compete_, of course!
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Date:
| Fri Mar 17 10:54:19 2000
| Name:
| jeff herbert
| E-mail:
| herbertj@peoplepc.com
| Organization:
| teacher
| Location:
| Sioux Falls
| How the site | was found: Grad. school/SWSTATE-Marshall, Mn.
| Comments:
| Just signing in--
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Date:
| Thu Mar 16 17:38:21 2000
| Name:
| Lorraine Halbesma
| E-mail:
| lhalbesma@channahon.will.k12.il.us
| Organization:
| N.B.Galloway Elem. School
| Location:
| Channahon, Il.
| How the site | was found: I recently attended a workshop.
| Comments:
| I attended the workshop in Lombard, Il. I have read many of your books and intend to read the one on competition next. I enjoyed the day and I am thinking about what will be the next thing I will do.....I now feel I am more ready to again discuss the issue of Achievement testing in our district. Thanks for all of your insight!
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Date:
| Wed Mar 15 23:32:25 2000
| Name:
| Cindi Gortner
| E-mail:
| cggortner@hotmail.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Los Angeles
| How the site | was found: Search engine for Alfie Kohn
| Comments:
| I am so grateful to Alfie for speaking out on these important topics - so THANK YOU! I thoroughly enjoyed your lecture at Cal State Northridge - who knew you were so funny??!!! I am trying to get rid of the monthly awards program in my school so wish me luck!
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Date:
| Wed Mar 15 22:40:02 2000
| Name:
| Tom Ray
| E-mail:
| tbray@chicago.avenew.com
| Organization:
| Iroquois Community School
| Location:
| DesPlaines, IL
| How the site | was found: Alfie mentioned it during a presentation
| Comments:
| Terrific resource. Most interesting to check out previous guests. Hopefully we can be a support and resource to one another. The power of the Internet at its best. If you have a chance to hear Alfie in person, don't pass it up.
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Date:
| Wed Mar 15 14:24:46 2000
| Name:
| Mary Falvey
| E-mail:
| mfalvey@calkstatela.edu
| Organization:
| Calif. State Uni., L.A.
| Location:
| Los Angeles, CA
| How the site | was found: L.A. Times article
| Comments:
| I have always loved your work and admire so much your passion for what you believe in. Our children are so much better off because of people like you. Thanks for your contributions and wisdom.
|
Date:
| Tue Mar 14 18:11:14 2000
| Name:
| Donna Melvin
| E-mail:
| donnmelv@gyrd.ab.ca
| Organization:
| Westhaven Elem. School
| Location:
| Edson,Alberta, Canada
| How the site | was found: Surfing the Net
| Comments:
| Have quite enjoyed reading your books, as well as articles on education. Most insightful!
|
Date:
| Mon Mar 13 21:20:38 2000
| Name:
| Linda Garland
| E-mail:
| Lindamiata @aol.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Dayton, Ohio
| How the site | was found: Dayton Daily News
| Comments:
| Looking for ways to stop Ohio Proficiency testing and thus improve our schools and the quality of life of our children. My child is so stressed from this years tests she is tearful and ill.
|
Date:
| Mon Mar 13 11:01:27 2000
| Name:
| pat poteet
| E-mail:
| rolpatpoteet.peoplepc.com
| Organization:
| none
| Location:
| dayton ohio
| How the site | was found: dayton daily news
| Comments:
| Something must be done about proficiency testing. Read Dayton Daily News March 13, 2000. Very informative about who does the grading of the test. I am appalled that the state of Ohio goes along with this. It needs to be stopped.
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Date:
| Mon Mar 13 10:07:39 2000
| Name:
| Alisa Cook
| E-mail:
| acook_mtnrose@hotmail.com
| Organization:
| Mountain Rose Academy HS
| Location:
| Tucson, Arizona
| How the site | was found: US West.Net
| Comments:
| Very interesting information - looking forward to exploring more..
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Date:
| Mon Mar 13 00:25:14 2000
| Name:
| Cathie Fountain
| E-mail:
| catfountain@worldnet.att.net
| Organization:
| Director, Hilltop Parent Cooperative
| Location:
| Fountain Valley
| How the site | was found: Familiar with Kohn's work, 2000CAEYC conference
| Comments:
|
Hello-
I am an early childhood educator AND a parent of a 12 year old 7th grader and 9 year old third grade twins and have grave concerns about the SAT 9 testing in the state of California. What can be done? It is absurd that the test remains in a "secret vault" away from the human beings it directly affects. Currently,( the only way, legally, in the State of California) in order to obtain any sort of waiver for any child is to take them through the IEP process and end up with a "Special Education" diagnosis...Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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Date:
| Sun Mar 12 17:00:39 2000
| Name:
| Emily Jackson
| E-mail:
| jackson_emily@hotmail.com
| Organization:
| none
| Location:
| Cullowhee, NC
| How the site | was found: reading recent Kohn book
| Comments:
| my state coordinator not active...need help in NC
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Date:
| Sun Mar 12 17:00:07 2000
| Name:
| Alanna
| E-mail:
| sekerak@ncweb.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Ohio
| How the site | was found: Read the book
| Comments:
| If there is anyone out there who is interested in joining an Alliance against proficiency testing, please contact me.
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Date:
| Thu Mar 9 14:29:57 2000
| Name:
| Pat Glemming
| E-mail:
| pglemming@excite.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Cedar Drive Middle School, Colts Neck, NJ
| How the site | was found: a friend gave it to me
| Comments:
| I am in the Master's Program at Lesley College for Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in conflict resolution and peaceable schools. I know that you spoke there last July, and I heard you speak at Princetion the year before. I am presently in a course for curriculum development with Nancy Carlsson-Paige. One of her assignments is a dialogue (real or imagined) with a theorist. I chose you as I think you are a visionary...although you have really changed my world. Through hearing you and reading your work, I think I am becoming a better teacher/guide for my students. It has been quite a journey, but I am inspired by your thoughts for education. I don't know how you can help me now exactly, but I guess I just wanted you to know how you've helped me already. Maybe if I get really stuck with my paper, I'll check in with you again.
You rock!!!!!!!
Pat Glemming
401 Parkview
Ocean, NJ 07712
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Date:
| Wed Mar 8 23:37:07 2000
| Name:
| Michael B. Walsh, Ed.D
| E-mail:
| MBWalsh40@aol.com
| Organization:
| Educational Consultant
| Location:
| 8 Millstream Lane, Stony Brook, NY, 11790
| How the site | was found: AASA lecture by Alfie Kohn
| Comments:
| As a professor of Ed Admin at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, I have referred my students to your site.
I had the pleasure of attending Alfie's lecture at AASA last week and obtaining an autographed copy of his book, "The Schools...".
There is sme real congruence between what Alfie says regarding the standards issue, i.e., the dumbing down of instruction to meet some short term needs of passing tests that will have the district results published in local papers. My students are feeling this very keenly as some Boards of Education are bypassing the traditional curriculum development
process and purchasing "Success for All" type programs that are not even being reviewed by teachers prior to purchase. Panic is setting in.
Mike Walsh
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Date:
| Wed Mar 8 09:45:58 2000
| Name:
| Michael Vuotto
| E-mail:
| bukzfann@mindspring.com
| Organization:
| N/A
| Location:
| Cincinnati
| How the site | was found: Search
| Comments:
| Site was very beneficial to my research of the use of rewards in schools. Thank you!
|
Date:
| Wed Mar 8 07:43:28 2000
| Name:
| CHARLES JOHNSON
| E-mail:
| CHAMIRJ@CS.COM
| Organization:
| PARENTS AGAINST UNFAIR TESTING
| Location:
| COLUMBUS,OHIO
| How the site | was found: PAMPHLET
| Comments:
| I WOULD LIKE TO GET MORE INFORMATION ON PROFICIENCY TESTS AND HOW TO STOP THEM.I CAN BE REACHED BY PHONE AT (614) 8375854
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Date:
| Tue Mar 7 21:16:01 2000
| Name:
| Ed Koscik
| E-mail:
| ekoscik@execpc.com
| Organization:
| Scott Foresman Bureau of Ed and Research
| Location:
| Nashotah , Wi
| How the site | was found: Public Radio
| Comments:
| Keep up the good work. As an educational consultant, how can I help or get involved?
|
Date:
| Tue Mar 7 20:06:57 2000
| Name:
| Robert C. Baudhuin
| E-mail:
| jmrb@dellnet.com
| Organization:
| Sherman Middle School
| Location:
| Madison WI
| How the site | was found: Public Radio
| Comments:
| While listening to Mr. Kohn on the radio 3/7/00, he mentioned the work of a teacher named Barb Brodhagen. I am pleased to report that she is a colleague of mine at Sherman Middle School in Madison, WI. As the principal there, I am very happy that Ms. Brodhagen and her teaching partner are faculty members at Sherman. I cannot imagine a better way to teach middle level kids than the method that they use.
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Date:
| Tue Mar 7 19:36:50 2000
| Name:
| Celeste
| E-mail:
| sekerak@ncweb.com
| Organization:
| Parent fighting proficiencies
| Location:
| Northeast Ohio
| How the site | was found: Read the book
| Comments:
| Do you think you will be coming to Ohio anytime soon? I would love to go to one of your lectures. I am very against the ohio Proficiency Testing program and need to connect with other people who are also against it. Please keep up the great work youi are doing for children...they need to have their voices heard and you are a wonderful spokesperson for them. Thanks
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Date:
| Tue Mar 7 19:01:15 2000
| Name:
| r. grunert
| E-mail:
| grammiegmg.earthlink
| Organization:
| -
| Location:
| milwaukee, wi
| How the site | was found: whad public radio
| Comments:
| bravo!
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Date:
| Tue Mar 7 14:13:48 2000
| Name:
| Celeste
| E-mail:
| sekerak@ncweb.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Perry, Ohio
| How the site | was found: Have read the book
| Comments:
| I am thrilled that I'm not the only parent out here who feels this way! These tests mean absolutely nothing in determining a child's level of proficiency. Please write if you live in Ohio so that we can get more people involved in eliminating this test. I am not allowing my children to participate and one of my children ids fine with it while the other one is worried about conforming to the norm. These test have taken over the entre curriculum in our school as everything is geared to the test and how to help the students score the highest possible-nothing is said about the stress associated with preparing for them. Please get involved and stand up for your child's rights to a truly free and public education-not something dictated that they should know at any given point in their lives. All children do not learn all things at the same time and it is gossly unfair to mandate that they must. Thank YOu
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Date:
| Tue Mar 7 00:43:20 2000
| Name:
| Paul B. Seaton
| E-mail:
| pseaton@ga.k12.pa.us
| Organization:
| Germantown Academy
| Location:
| Fort Washington, PA
| How the site | was found: Harvard Education Review article link
| Comments:
| Keep your clear thinking in the public eye. Most educators I know are still trying to use a model that is outmoded at best and developmentally dishonest at worst.
Thanks, Pbs
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Date:
| Mon Mar 6 09:35:15 2000
| Name:
| Roger Gray
| E-mail:
| Roger4REA@aol.com
| Organization:
| Richmond Education Association
| Location:
| 1801 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA 23223
| How the site | was found: Correspondance with parents
| Comments:
| I've enjoyed you're work emensely. You say what teachers in Richmond know to be true. Thanks
|
Date:
| Sat Mar 4 23:09:48 2000
| Name:
| Brenda Pachtman
| E-mail:
| integrityseeker@juno.com
| Organization:
| New York City Board of Education
| Location:
| Brooklyn,New York
| How the site | was found: I got a written response to a letter I wrote to Alfie Kohn himself
| Comments:
| I need some support and advice regarding a serious moral dilemma.If I cooperate with the powers that be in the board of education , I will have to compromise my integrity and everything I have ever believed in personally and professionally. If I don't cooperate, my professional future as well as my personal future are in danger. I know this sounds melodramatic, but this is the truth.I am desperate. Perhaps someone can advise me as to what I can do. I am usually a resourcful person , but I am all out of ideas.
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Date:
| Sat Mar 4 11:41:28 2000
| Name:
| Dolores Peralta
| E-mail:
| DPer1969@aol.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Canoga Park
| How the site | was found: from Csun
| Comments:
| Alfie, I saw you speak the other night when you were at Csun campus. I wanted to tell you that I really related to topics you spoke on. I am unfortunitly a product of a bad school system which over looked my learning disabilities. I am back at school getting my AA degree in child development. Thank you again for your wonderful ideas and thoughts I was listening!
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Date:
| Sat Mar 4 00:18:36 2000
| Name:
| Corrine Fishman
| E-mail:
| Fishman@ns.net
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Sacramento, Ca
| How the site | was found: Newspaper article
| Comments:
| I have recently become aware of the standardized testing issue and would like to know if Mr Kohn will be in the Sacramento area to speak on this.
|
Date:
| Fri Mar 3 21:15:02 2000
| Name:
| Michelle Donovan
| E-mail:
| smith@ncweb.com
| Organization:
| forming group of parents to fight proficiency
| Location:
| Mentor Ohio
| How the site | was found: read the book
| Comments:
| Love your book-need inromation on hjow to fight Ohio Department of Education and the proficiency testing program.
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Date:
| Fri Mar 3 16:48:55 2000
| Name:
| Janel Perez
| E-mail:
| perezfam@gte.net
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Thousand Oaks, CA
| How the site | was found: Link from Lisa Murphy's site, mentioned at your lecture in Northridge last night
| Comments:
| Attended your lecture at Cal State University Northridge last night. Thought it was great
|
Date:
| Fri Mar 3 04:12:29 2000
| Name:
| Shannon Varner
| E-mail:
| shannonvarner@earthlink.net
| Organization:
|
| Location:
| Pasadena, CA.
| How the site | was found: Lecture in Northridge
| Comments:
| Fantastic to listen to the presentation tonight! Thank you for keeping me on the right path. It is so important to hear from others, especially when they are as articulate and professional as what I saw tonight!
|
Date:
| Thu Mar 2 15:06:16 2000
| Name:
| M. Goldmacher
| E-mail:
| mgoldmacher@aol.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
|
| How the site | was found: search engine, Deja.com, search: "Alfie Kohn"
| Comments:
| Thanks.
|
Date:
| Tue Feb 29 18:32:50 2000
| Name:
| colleen hord
| E-mail:
| hordcg@aol.com
| Organization:
|
| Location:
|
| How the site | was found: I'm an Alfie groupie!!
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