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Date:	Wed Jan 31 14:27:42 2001
Name:	Lori Phillips
E-mail:	lphillips@eagle-grove.k12.ia.us
Organization:	Eagle Grove Community School
Location:	Eagle Grove, Iowa 50533
How the site was found:	Alfie's books
Comments:	I would like Alfie to comment on Iowa's efforts to reshape teacher compensation. The current plan seems to go against all of Kohn's beliefs: punishment by rewards and higher pay for higher test scores. I am wondering if Alfie has written any recent articles regarding teacher compensation and the manner in which state legislators are damaging teaching/learning by using "the ultimate carrot"--money. Lori Phillips

Date:	Wed Jan 31 12:31:27 2001
Name:	Elisamuel Martinez-Antonetty
E-mail:	elisam@coqui.net
Organization:	University of Puerto Rico
Location:	Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
How the site was found:	Trhough Phi Delta Kappan
Comments:	An excellent resource for information regarding a new way of thinking in education. Will recommend it to my students in the Educational Leadership program.

Date:	Wed Jan 31 11:54:33 2001
Name:	Lisa Nydoske
E-mail:	lisaann33333@aol.com
Organization:	parent
Location:	Tucson, Arizona
How the site was found:	someone gave me a article by Alfie
Comments:	I do agree that standard tests can be used against students ans schools in a manner which is unfair. However, some of your points in your articles do not sit well with me. I read many of the guest list replys and you sure are getting alot of people saying "good job". Are you a praise junkie now? Have you lost interest? Is your pleasure taken away from you? Are your readers manipulating you? Has your desire to write some more articles and books reduced now because of all this praise? I enjoy someone telling me I did a good job. In fact, usually I am motivated to do more. Somewheres along the line I may actually learn something or enjoy the thing I'm doing. There is a balance that can be reached and I feel each parent should decide for themselves what works for their child.

Date:	Wed Jan 31 10:15:47 2001
Name:	Krista Ferdinand
E-mail:	krista@zundesign.com
Organization:
Location:	Oak Park, Illinois (suburb of Chicago)
How the site was found:	Searched by name
Comments:	I just began reading "The Schools Our Children Deserve" in an attempt to better understand some difficulty my 8-year-old daughter is experiencing in school. Although I am still in the discovery process of finding out why my daughter is struggling, I feel like the lights have been turned on and the doors opened to so many obvious problems with how we are teching our children today. According to my child's 3rd grade teacher, the students are expected to complete 1 to 2 hours of homework per day, plus 30 minutes of reading, and writing a couple of reflective sentences about what they have read. That is what the kids who are "getting it" are/should be doing. Imagine the time spent for someone like my daughter who, apprently, is "not getting it." She starts after school, breaks for dinner and then continues until bedtime. Right now, my fear is not whether her grades will ever improve or if she will attend college. It's how she will ever become a life-long learner with natural curiosity and the desire to "find out." Right now, math equals oppressive work, and writing not much better. I'm angry. Where is the passion in teaching? I know there are some treasures out there but why the exception and not the rule? Furthermore, it was my daughter's score on the Stanford 9 test which was given one month into third grade which has identified her as just bordering on average, and in some cases below. Because of this, she will be required to attend "Winter Academy" as (and I'm quoting from the form letter that I received from my school district) "a condition of promotion." My child is already pushed to the limit with the work assigned and now this Winter Academy is thrown on top of it as some sort of intervention to help her. She does need help, that much is clear. Right now, I'm trying to figure out how I can turn this situation around and foster a true love of learning amidst such insanity.

Date:	Wed Jan 31 01:50:36 2001
Name:	Sean Joyce
E-mail:	seanj@azusausd.k12.ca.us
Organization:	Azusa Unified School District and Claremont Graduate University
Location:	Southern California
How the site was found:	from the inside cover of "The Schools Our Children Deserve"
Comments:	I have thoroughly enjoyed your writing and thoughts! Thanks! Your words convey what a few of us have always believed, but found difficult for others to accept and support. The struggle continues, and we celebrate the struggle. Keep The Faith! I also wanted to pass along, as I will to HoughtonMifflin, that the "Reference" section of the book only goes through, Gallimore, Ronald. I know there are more citations further down the alphabet than just to the 'G's'

Date:	Tue Jan 30 20:50:10 2001
Name:	Andrew Arenson
E-mail:	AArenson1@cs.com
Organization:	Teacher
Location:	Pough
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Tue Jan 30 18:55:27 2001
Name:	Dean Howarth
E-mail:	dhowarths@aol.com
Organization:	Fairfax Co Public Schools
Location:	northern Va
How the site was found:	wash. post
Comments:	Mr Kohn, It has been so affirming to learn that so many of the beliefs that I have forged as an isolated teacher are being championed by someone out there like you. I am in a district and state that are "selling their souls" to the false idol of standardized testing and the mantra of "accountability". In VA the enrichment of students has taken the guise of memorizing the confederate battlefields and posting the 10 commandments in the classroom.....very distressing. Your work will help me load my quiver with philosophical arrows and continue to fight the good fight. Regards, D E Howarth Physics teacher McLean VA

Date:	Tue Jan 30 09:40:49 2001
Name:	Randi Robinson Cohen
E-mail:	dukembjs@aol.com
Organization:	PTA,
Location:	Chappaqua, New York
How the site was found:	article being circulated in our town
Comments:	I am looking forward to attending lecture in Scarsdale. We are quite concerned about state testing in New York and are organizing a campaign to improve/eliminate/change the goals of the tests.

Date:	Mon Jan 29 21:50:11 2001
Name:	Michael Greening
E-mail:	greeningm@royaloakschools.net
Organization:	High school
Location:	Royal Oak, MI. (suburb of Detroit)
How the site was found:
Comments:	Thanks to Alfie for the last 16 months, where I have immersed myself in your books and articles. Your ideas are indeed being heard...

Date:	Mon Jan 29 20:34:31 2001
Name:	Glen Jenkins
E-mail:	cgjenks@prodigy.net
Organization:	Longfellow/SOTA 2 Middle Schools
Location:	La Crosse. Wisconsin
How the site was found:	Reading, Winona Talk, & CNN Book Talk
Comments:	I wish you could have visited Longfellow/SOTA 2 Middle Schools on your recent trip to Winona. It would have been nice to show you School on the River a integrated year long program for 7th & 8th graders. They spend their time outside of school doing research on the Mississippi River with local scientists. Or, The School of Technology & Arts 2 Charter School that allows children build community and teaches them to work and play together to learn. Or, School in the Coulee that takes an experiential approach to involve their students in understanding their world. Just wanted you to know that your message is being heard and there are places that are doing something about the state of our educational system.

Date:	Mon Jan 29 15:44:30 2001
Name:	Kathy Cassity
E-mail:	kcassity@aloha.com
Organization:	University of Hawaii
Location:	Honolulu
How the site was found:	The Schools Our Children Deserve
Comments:	Reading "The Schools Our Children Deserve" in light of the new president Bush's suggested "educational reforms" is EXTREMELY frightening. Is there a move afoot among educators, parents and concerned citizens to mobilize against this damaging and backwards proposal?

Date:	Mon Jan 29 14:50:25 2001
Name:	David Neils
E-mail:	davidn@telementor.org
Organization:	International Telementor Center
Location:	Fort Collins, Colorado
How the site was found:	Connections at Co-nect.net
Comments:	Hello Alfie, I applaud your mission! At the ITC we put students back in the education driver's seat. I would like to discuss several topics with you. Please give me a call at 970-206-9352. I encourage you to visit our Web site: http://www.telementor.org We've served over 7,000 students in eight countries since 1995.

Date:	Mon Jan 29 12:17:43 2001
Name:	Alan Beth
E-mail:	albeth@wshs.luminet.net
Organization:	Winona Public Schools high school science teacher
Location:	Winona,MN
How the site was found:	A friend/fellow teacher
Comments:	I didn't hear your presentation in Winona but have a summary of what you were speaking about. I am fascinated by your views and hope I can attend one of your presentations soon - I will keep a watchful eye open as to times/places! If you have a mailing list, please include me on it. Thanks, Al Beth

Date:	Mon Jan 29 05:29:18 2001
Name:	piyaporn sukpatrapirom
E-mail:	piyaporn.sukpatrapirom
Organization:	unilever
Location:	Thailand
How the site was found:	www.msn.com
Comments:

Date:	Sun Jan 28 16:45:13 2001
Name:	Debra Hall
E-mail:	debrasl@yahoo.com
Organization:	Tamien childcare center/ Bright Horizons
Location:	San Jose, CA
How the site was found:	from ooeygooey.com
Comments:

Date:	Sun Jan 28 14:52:01 2001
Name:	Mary Ann Martini
E-mail:	xmartini@aol.com
Organization:	Boise State University
Location:	Boise, Idaho
How the site was found:	Kohn Books and tapes
Comments:	I teach preservice teachers and believe strongly in the power of intrinsic motivation. I do not use grades or testing as evidence of learning. I am appalled to see Idaho moving steadily toward increased testing of our children and want to stop it. I need help in developing and implementing an effective campaign against grades and testing.

Date:	Sat Jan 27 16:41:21 2001
Name:	Rep. Art Pelletier
E-mail:	ajpell@email.com
Organization:	NH House of Representatives
Location:	Dover, NH
How the site was found:	Through FairTest website
Comments:	Loved your op-ed in 1/26/01 Globe! Need more such from more than one voice, but with bully "W" in the pulpit in Washington espousing more tests and vouchers, outlook is bleak.

Date:	Sat Jan 27 16:16:12 2001
Name:	Helen Sadler
E-mail:	helensadler@aol.com
Organization:
Location:	Florida
How the site was found:	In Kohn's brilliant books
Comments:	I have just recently finished reading Punished by Rewards and think it is one of the most important books of our time. (I first read The Schools Our Children Deserve and Beyond Discipline is next.) As a substitute teacher who is working toward getting a degree so I can be a "real" teacher (tongue in cheek), I see things happening in the classroom that break my heart on a daily basis. Rewards do not produce self-determined, motivated students who love learning. The control mechanisms used in classrooms are debilitating. We are doing real damage to our kids and I am glad to see that so many people out there are embracing Kohn's message. I would be glad to communicate via e-mail with any educator who wants to talk. Some days I come home ready to explode with rage about what I see happening. Please, let's stick together and make this vision a reality for all our kids. Don't give up our idealism, this fantastic vision of community and caring...the kids are counting on us.

Date:	Sat Jan 27 11:30:42 2001
Name:	Patti Totten
E-mail:	LarPatTotten@centurytel.net
Organization:
Location:	Tomah, Wisconsin
How the site was found:	attended lecture at Winona State University
Comments:	Attended your lecture and was so happy to hear someone speakout so well and effectively. I am sharing your name and web site with as many teachers and parents as I am able. Thank you for fighting the fight! We must change the direction that education is headed. "Back" to basics is a step backward! Would we want to back to typewriters rather than computers?

Date:	Fri Jan 26 21:04:34 2001
Name:	Peggy Miller
E-mail:	dpmillerw152
Organization:	Tigerton Elementary School
Location:
How the site was found:	Given at presentation
Comments:	Thank you for validating the teaching I know is right. Now I can obtain the research and base my arguments on the facts. I am very fortunate to be in a school district that frees me to teach the real stuff. Unfortunately my school district is in real trouble if we cannot improve our test scores. Thank you for giving me hope.

Date:	Fri Jan 26 20:52:27 2001
Name:	Peggy Miller
E-mail:	dpmillerw152
Organization:	Tigerton ElementarySchool
Location:	Tigerton, WI 54486
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Fri Jan 26 16:52:51 2001
Name:	Paul Wiese
E-mail:	paulw@tomah.k12.wi,us
Organization:	LaGrange Elementary School
Location:	Tomah, Wisconsin
How the site was found:	It was mentioned at last night's lecture
Comments:	I am an elementary school principal. I was in the audience at Winona State on January 25. Our district paid for a meal and transportation for 30 teachers and administrators to hear the lecture that night. I was privilged to sit with my daughter, a freshman at Winona,which allowed her to hear an outstanding lecture on a timely topic. My message is thank you. I can't quit my job in protest over the standards testing in Wisconsin. But, I can work to soften the blows it inflicts on teacher and kids. I bought the latest book and will continue to look for inspiring thought and the call to arms from Mr. Kohn.

Date:	Fri Jan 26 14:40:03 2001
Name:	Lori Hovey
E-mail:	teachr66@mediaone.net
Organization:	West Springfield School Committee
Location:	West Springfield, MA
How the site was found:	Referred to it by someone who attended one of your conferences
Comments:	I am an educator, a parent and a member of my local school committee. I am sick to death of the abuse the DOE is inflicting upon us regarding these RIDICULOUS TESTS. I am also sick of teachers who say, "We can't do anything about this." Of course we can! We can refuse to administer them! If every teacher refused to give them that would send a message wouldn't it?

Date:	Fri Jan 26 14:00:09 2001
Name:	Carl Leggins
E-mail:
Organization:	Youth Court /Probation
Location:	Libby Mt
How the site was found:	school mail
Comments:

Date:	Fri Jan 26 13:30:31 2001
Name:	Paul Neiman
E-mail:	neima002@uwp.edu
Organization:	none
Location:	Kenosha, WI
How the site was found:	newsletter
Comments:

Date:	Fri Jan 26 13:29:05 2001
Name:	Paul Neiman
E-mail:	neima002@uwp.edu
Organization:	none
Location:	Kenosha, WI
How the site was found:	newsletter
Comments:

Date:	Fri Jan 26 09:26:03 2001
Name:	Joanne Klinker
E-mail:	jklinker
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Fri Jan 26 09:18:47 2001
Name:	Deborah Cromer
E-mail:	dcromer@pressenter.com
Organization:	School District of Bangor
Location:	Bangor, WI 54614
How the site was found:	at presentation by Alfie Kohn
Comments:	I am glad I went to Winona, MN, on 1-25-01 to hear you speak. Your belief that we are experiencing an "educational emergency" reminded me that I need to be doing more to combat the "educational ethnic cleansing" that standardized testing promotes. Thank you for your humor, your ideas, your commitment to helping parents and teachers and community members work to support the kind of teaching and learning that helps children make sense of and deal with this complex world we live in.

Date:	Fri Jan 26 09:10:53 2001
Name:	bevkrueger
E-mail:	BevK@tomah.k12.wi.us
Organization:	Public School
Location:	Tomah, WI
How the site was found:	lecture at Winona, MN.
Comments:	Glad I came. I will start to read so I cam be politically involved.

Date:	Fri Jan 26 07:42:52 2001
Name:	Stataki Maria
E-mail:	msratak@biology.uoc.gr
Organization:	LYKEIO
Location:	Lykeio gaziou ,71414 Gazi, Iraklion, Crete, Greece
How the site was found:	Washigton Post
Comments:	I am a greek teacher (Literature )in sunny Crete. I AGREE absolutly with Mr A.KOHN.I try to motivate students with other methods than tests and austerity Have anybody used books of Kohns, which can send to our school ?

Date:	Fri Jan 26 07:29:49 2001
Name:	Strataki Maria
E-mail:	mstratak@biology.uoc.gr
Organization:	Eniaio Lykeio
Location:	Eniaio Lykeio Gaziou
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Fri Jan 26 07:29:44 2001
Name:	Strataki Maria
E-mail:	mstratak@biology.uoc.gr
Organization:	Eniaio Lykeio
Location:	Eniaio Lykeio Gaziou
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Thu Jan 25 22:54:19 2001
Name:	Mark Hebert
E-mail:	mhebert@massed.net
Organization:	School Committee
Location:	Monson
How the site was found:	Superintendant's meeting
Comments:

Date:	Thu Jan 25 20:53:36 2001
Name:	Michael Spevak, MD
E-mail:	mspeva02@georgetown.edu
Organization:	psychiatrist in private practice
Location:	Washington, DC
How the site was found:	Washington Post article
Comments:	I found the description of your work fascinating and important, as many others obviously do, too.

Date:	Thu Jan 25 20:06:34 2001
Name:	Zanaki Renibe
E-mail:	mailto:www.renibe@juno.com
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:	The Washington Post
Comments:

Date:	Thu Jan 25 17:29:27 2001
Name:	Bobbie J. Hunt
E-mail:
Organization:
Location:	San Antonio, Texas
How the site was found:	I Read your Article: Education in a Dark Time
Comments:	Horray!!!!!!! I totally agree with you.We are testing our kids instead of teaching our kids how to become great thinkers, explore beautiful literature and learn from nonfiction, etc.........

Date:	Thu Jan 25 13:40:21 2001
Name:	Dr. Mel Weiss
E-mail:	mel@saclink.csus.edu
Organization:	Dept. of Anthropology, Cal. State university
Location:	Sacramento, CA 95819-6106
How the site was found:	KAPPAN
Comments:	Throughally enjoyed your "Fighting the tests..."(Kappan-Jan,01), your sense of dark satire is delicious. After reading the article I thought about what kind of teachers we need to implement "superficial learning". I would like to propose a sick remedy for a sick system. Innovative and creative teaching has little to do with the new accountability engagement. Do we really want our best and brightest to pursue a teaching career? Think about it. Won't such folk become quickly discouraged preaching "deep understanding" when shallow results are rewarded. So why educate teachers in universities. Why not seek out and train dull-normal, uninquisitive individuals who will be delighted to follow orders and compute test scores. Let's allow them a very basic and limited educational experience much like the Army trains its basic training recruits. Let us produce a cadre of "almost DELTA's" who will submissively serve, never question the wisdom of their masters, who are content to follow rather than lead, and who never ever question policy. Let's attract people whose curosity is limited, who rarely read books and who believe that children are only empty vessels whose minds must be filled. Moreover, they should be discouraged from challenging the status quo, worship prevailing social and political nonsense, and above all, be grateful for the opportunity.

Date:	Thu Jan 25 11:59:43 2001
Name:	richard b warner
E-mail:	warneri@gw.fargo.k12.nd.us
Organization:	fargo south high school
Location:	fargo,nd
How the site was found:	ascd education update
Comments:

Date:	Thu Jan 25 09:36:07 2001
Name:	Leon Thurman
E-mail:	vlthur44@aol.com
Organization:	VoiceCare Network/Fairview Voice Center
Location:	Minneapolis MN
How the site was found:	ASCD "Update"
Comments:	Your work is deeply significant for our all human beings, and especially those who live in our culture. Bless you, and keep up your good work.

Date:	Wed Jan 24 23:37:56 2001
Name:	Karen Wood
E-mail:	gmcvan@durham.net
Organization:	Newcastle Public School
Location:	Newcastle , Ontario
How the site was found:	colleague
Comments:	I am very intrigued by many of the ideas presented here. I will definitely be looking into these books on my next shopping trip.

Date:	Wed Jan 24 21:02:08 2001
Name:	Tom Tarbet
E-mail:	tmt@azstarnet.com
Organization:	Tucson Unified School District
Location:	Tucson
How the site was found:	You mentioned it at your lecture
Comments:	You're recent visit to Tucson has been the "talk of the town" among teachers! We loved your style and your message, and we're more determined than ever to arm ourselves with information! Thanks!

Date:	Wed Jan 24 20:18:10 2001
Name:	Kathie Maniaci
E-mail:	kmaniaci@twcny.rr.com
Organization:	Grant Middle School
Location:	Syracuse, NY
How the site was found:	Manlius Pebble Hill Website
Comments:	Thank God, I don't feel like I'm alone anymore!

Date:	Wed Jan 24 19:45:23 2001
Name:	KKGGB
E-mail:	K_K_G_G_B@hotmail.com
Organization:
Location:	oh
How the site was found:	recomendation of a teacher
Comments:	This page is insiteful, and, in the educational arena, painfully honest. Thanks for a refreshing reality check.

Date:	Wed Jan 24 16:55:36 2001
Name:	Joshua Kilroy
E-mail:	jkilroy@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization:	Illinois Green Party
Location:	Chicago, IL
How the site was found:	It's listed in his recent books.
Comments:	Hi, I have really learned a lot from Alfie Kohn's books in the two years since I first read Punished by Rewards. I have given copies of his books to friends of mine who have become parents, my sister who is a school administrator, executives in the state child welfare system, and to people who are running for local school boards. His ideas really fit in with the ideas and values that Ralph Nader and the Green Party have promoted and I hope to meet with him at one of his Chicago appearances. Keep up the good fight!

Date:	Wed Jan 24 16:23:59 2001
Name:	Cheryl Stuart
E-mail:	cbs@seacoast.com
Organization:	Triton Regional School District
Location:	Byfield, MA
How the site was found:	1/24/01 Mass. Superintendent's Meeting
Comments:	Provocative...you made a real impact.

Date:	Wed Jan 24 14:52:45 2001
Name:	Susan Scheer
E-mail:	sas2785@aol.com
Organization:	Teacher
Location:	Gwinnett County Georgia
How the site was found:	PDK link
Comments:	A few teachers in my school have read the recient article in the "Kappan" and are meeting to chat about the article this Friday. It's a start.

Date:	Wed Jan 24 14:32:13 2001
Name:	Kesha
E-mail:	naeballib@yahoo.com
Organization:
Location:	Ohio
How the site was found:	A friend gave me the URL and asked me to visit
Comments:	I think this is a very truthful, well-planned, and well thought out site. I believe that everything stated here is the unfortunate truth.

Date:	Wed Jan 24 05:43:32 2001
Name:	Gabrielle Bayme
E-mail:	gtsimmu@hotmail.com
Organization:	NYU
Location:
How the site was found:	search
Comments:	just wanted to thank you for the insights in your books. not only did i find what i have read so far utterly inspiring but it articulates so much of what i believed but couldn't put into words before. the other reason i am signing this guest book is because i am interested in talking with other educators that share these philosophies. is there anywhere on the web (message board, chat room, etc.) where educators who are trying to implement progressive, democratic teaching strategies can communicate? if not is there anyone here who would like to begin such a space with me? i am working in a school that is actively trying to coerce me into using teaching strategies and "classroom management" techniques that i don't believe in and am feeling very isolated. i would love to feel the support of others who are dealing with similar situations. if you are interested in starting a board or chat group with me please email me at gtsimmu@hotmail.com thanks!!

Date:	Tue Jan 23 19:17:40 2001
Name:	Linda
E-mail:	lmcounts1949@hotmail.com
Organization:	field school
Location:	wheeling, il
How the site was found:	from London Middle School web page
Comments:

Date:	Tue Jan 23 11:26:29 2001
Name:	James Gillette
E-mail:	jgillett@remc8.k12.mi.us
Organization:	Kenowa Hills Public Schools
Location:	Grand Rapids, Mi
How the site was found:	ASCD Education Update
Comments:	You are delivering an important message. Please keep up the terific work.I have seen you and heard you several and continue to be inspired every time I hear you.

Date:	Tue Jan 23 00:08:15 2001
Name:	Roseanne Cole
E-mail:	roseanne.cole@tusd.k12.az.us
Organization:	Tucson Unified School District
Location:	Tucson, Arizona
How the site was found:	Attended a lecture in Tucson
Comments:

Date:	Mon Jan 22 22:10:36 2001
Name:	Deborah Hartsock
E-mail:	sockhart@hotmail.com
Organization:	Hampshire County Schools
Location:	Romney, West Virginia
How the site was found:	KAPPAN article
Comments:	Greetings from the mountains! I would like to know the lecture topic for the March 13th community lecture in Salisbury, Maryland.

Date:	Mon Jan 22 20:43:58 2001
Name:	cindy creek
E-mail:	ccreek@kiva.net
Organization:	TAW
Location:
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Mon Jan 22 18:33:39 2001
Name:	Thaines Arulandu
E-mail:	thainese@polarcomm.com
Organization:	University of North Dakota
Location:	Grand Forks, ND
How the site was found:	ASCD Publications
Comments:	I am a doctoral student at the University of North Dakota in Educational Leadership. I originally come from India. Standarized tests and assesments are my favorite topics of interest. Seeing 70% of the Indian population still illiterate, I wonder at our tests and assesments that do not promote education of the poor and rural populations. I will keep in touch with you as I proceed with my research on this topic in relation to Indian social, political, and educational set ups. Keep me informed of your latest views and thoughts. I appreciated your thoughts on the article "Education in a dark time" published in ASCD's education updates, January 2001.

Date:	Mon Jan 22 17:48:54 2001
Name:	Geoffrey M. Thomas Ed.D.
E-mail:	thomasgm@d93.k12.id.us
Organization:	Bonneville Joint School District 93
Location:	Idaho Falls, ID
How the site was found:	ASCD "Education Update" Article
Comments:	Thank you Mr. Kohn. Thank you for speaking out against the relentless assault on teachers and students guised in the "standards" movement. What standards,raising the bar, and vouchers etc... all about is segregation. This time along "class" lines. For a long time I have wondered if anyone else shared my viewpoint that students (especially the poor) will ultimately be harmed if the business community/legislators take over our public schools. Real education is not about merely raising test scores, it is about providing an enriched learning environment with a caring, attentive teacher. Providing students with a vast array of opportunities is the key to a broad based eduation. All this will be lost or shunted aside with focusing merely on test scores. If I may lend any assistance to your voice Mr. Kohn, in speaking out against the current anti-child legislative programs, please let me know. I will speak out, will write articles etc.. and help wherever I may to help turn aisde the tide of darkness. Sincerely, Geoffrey

Date:	Mon Jan 22 15:24:22 2001
Name:	Tom Jaeger, Ed.D
E-mail:	iju009@mail.connect.more.net
Organization:	Warren County R-III School District
Location:	Warrenton, MO 63383-2116
How the site was found:	Education Update Article
Comments:	The Article "Education in the Dark" was a refreshing change from what we in my State are being "bombarded" with. Thanks so much for the "reality check!"

Date:	Mon Jan 22 12:20:54 2001
Name:	Elisabeth
E-mail:	DeEbeck
Organization:	none
Location:	??
How the site was found:	Teachers
Comments:	I agree I agree I agree I agree

Date:	Sun Jan 21 22:57:08 2001
Name:	Theresa Farmer
E-mail:	mailto:sunsand678@aol.com%20%20%20&%20tfarmer@shelbyed.K12.al.us
Organization:	General Educator
Location:	Birmingham, AL
How the site was found:	ASCD smartbrief
Comments:	It is always inspiring and helpful to read Mr. Kohn's writings.

Date:	Sun Jan 21 14:51:35 2001
Name:	Patty McHatton
E-mail:	mchatton@typhoon.coedu.usf.edu
Organization:	teacher
Location:	Wesley Chapel
How the site was found:	have several of your books and heard you speak
Comments:	I thought you would find this story interesting. I (like many Florida teachers) am in the process of helping my students develop the necessary skills to do well on the FCAT. We were working on a mock FCAT Writes and the prompt was: Think of a rule that you think is unfair. Wreite to explain why we should do away with or change the rule. Two of my students chose to write about the unfairness of having to take the FCAT and the implications. One student wanted to know if he got 1000 students to sign a petition to do away with the FCAT would it work. He also said that teacher should have to take it instead of the kids. We had a lively discussion on the fact that it isn't the teachers who are making the laws mandating the FCAT (which says something about teachers taking a more active role). The other student wrote that the FCAT was simply a test to show how "dumb we are". A sad state when a child make such a comment.

Date:	Sun Jan 21 12:15:26 2001
Name:	Rose DiVirgilio
E-mail:	Rosed19726@aol.com
Organization:	Parent
Location:	Windsor, NY
How the site was found:	Beyond Standards book
Comments:	This has been a great resource

Date:	Sun Jan 21 10:30:47 2001
Name:	Liz Brighton
E-mail:	eliz_brighton@hotmail.com
Organization:	school
Location:	Northampton
How the site was found:	direct link from David Jackson
Comments:	David forwarded your site to me, as I'm researching the introduction of SATS to a school's culture. Some great comments found!

Date:	Sun Jan 21 10:06:08 2001
Name:	Virginia Ellenson
E-mail:	vellenson@msn.com
Organization:
Location:	Huntington Beach, CA
How the site was found:	I read THE SCHOOLS OUR CHILDREN DESERVE
Comments:	Thank you for your clear, readable, and important messages to everyone regarding the education (and miseducation) of our nation's children. I just finished reading THE SCHOOLS OUR CHILDREN DESERVE and feel encouraged to know that you are spreading this important information in such an accessible format. I've told everyone I know about the book and plan to give copies to each of our school board members and the administrators at my middle school site. I might not be planning to retire after just 35 years in the classroom if more people thought and communicated like Alfie Kohn. Thanks also for your previous books which continue to inform my interactions with fellow teachers, parents, and my students.

Date:	Sat Jan 20 22:57:21 2001
Name:	Lise Surface
E-mail:	Lrsuruss@aol.com
Organization:
Location:	North Dakota
How the site was found:	Just search for Alfie Kohn on the internet.
Comments:	I was told your coming to North Dakota to speak. I wanted to check out your books. They sound very intresting. I have a child who has given up on doing any school work. I feel it is because she has no choice in school. I feel by her not doing her work this is the only control she has in her life. I have mentioned this to the school but things are still the same.

Date:	Sat Jan 20 17:22:56 2001
Name:	Jason Amey
E-mail:	amey@muhlenberg.edu
Organization:
Location:	Allentown, PA
How the site was found:	search engine
Comments:	I hope Mr. Kohn will forgive this shameless act of self-promotion, but if there are any likeminded administrators looking for progressive H.S. Social Studies teachers--lets talk!

Date:	Sat Jan 20 17:22:14 2001
Name:	Jason Amey
E-mail:	amey@muhlenberg.edu
Organization:
Location:	Allentown, PA
How the site was found:	search engine
Comments:	I hope Mr. Kohn will forgive this shameless act of self-promotion, but if there are any likeminded administrators looking for progressive H.S. Social Studies teachers--lets talk!

Date:	Sat Jan 20 15:30:09 2001
Name:	Curt Hinson
E-mail:	drcurthinson@home.com
Organization:
Location:	Wilmington Delaware
How the site was found:	In The Schools Our Children Deserve
Comments:	I have read all of Mr. Kohn's books and many of his articles. I use his philosophy and ideas in my program "6-Steps to a Trouble-free Playground." I left public school teaching after 16 years because my philosophy on how children should be taught was so different than what was taking place. I currently travel to schools nationwide presenting my "Trouble-free Playground" program. I am amazed at how few schools, teachers, and administrators are aware of the detrimental effects of rewards, punishment, standardized testing, etc. There's a lot of work to be done to change education in this country, and it starts with common sense. Our system is caught up in the wrong beliefs. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that our current methods are damaging to students. Will all those schools, teachers, and administrators who wave banners saying "children first," please prove it with their methods and not with their mouths. Until we move away from rewards, punishments, consequences, conformity, standardized testing, bribes, manipulation, and the like, children will never be first. Thank you Mr. Kohn for your insightful writings. I hope that your work continues to inspire other teachers like it has me.

Date:	Sat Jan 20 15:26:06 2001
Name:	Marilyn K. Simon, Ph.D.
E-mail:	msimon@waldenu.edu
Organization:	PDK- Walden University Cyber Chapter
Location:	Minnesota
How the site was found:	Through Kappan
Comments:	Our chapter would like to get involved with the elimination of excessive testing and the dumbing down of our curriculum in our schools.

Date:	Fri Jan 19 18:34:41 2001
Name:	Chris Ebert
E-mail:	pigasus@pombi.com
Organization:	PPB Inc
Location:	Sunnyvale, Ca
How the site was found:	Joel.editthispage.com
Comments:	Very interesting -- I'm inspired to go find _No Contest_ and _Punished by Rewards_ and read both (the last part is the more difficult :). Good luck changing the world.

Date:	Fri Jan 19 17:02:56 2001
Name:	Robert Stahl
E-mail:	rjstahl000@hotmail.com
Organization:	Rockdale School District 84
Location:	Rockdale , Il
How the site was found:	Jan. PDK
Comments:	Your article says what I have believed for some time, I feel recharged for the good fight to get our schools back on track!

Date:	Fri Jan 19 16:56:18 2001
Name:	Duane Willhite
E-mail:	dwillhite@denver.k12.ia.us
Organization:	Denver Community School District
Location:	Denver, Iowa
How the site was found:	ASCD article Jan, 2001
Comments:

Date:	Fri Jan 19 16:32:59 2001
Name:	Lynn Solari
E-mail:	lsolari@angellcommunications.com
Organization:
Location:	Elk Grove, CA
How the site was found:	Alfie Kohn Fan
Comments:	I live in the Sacramento area in Califonia and was wondering if there were schools that adopt the "Alfie Kohn" philosophy? We are looking for a school to send our son who will be entering 3rd grade in the fall.

Date:	Fri Jan 19 14:17:18 2001
Name:	Ellen Kempler
E-mail:
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Fri Jan 19 11:34:10 2001
Name:	Pat Hartwick
E-mail:	phartwic
Organization:	Daemen College
Location:	Amherst, NY
How the site was found:	Article in Kappan
Comments:

Date:	Thu Jan 18 18:51:48 2001
Name:	Carla Moore
E-mail:	Ca
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Thu Jan 18 15:06:42 2001
Name:	Susan Scheer
E-mail:	sas2785@aol.com
Organization:	Magill ES
Location:	Gwinnett County Georgia
How the site was found:
Comments:	As a Gwinnitian, I read your recent article in "Kappan". Bravo!!!!

Date:	Thu Jan 18 12:17:35 2001
Name:	Leslie S. Heekin, Counselor
E-mail:	streetl@ocps.k12.fl.us
Organization:	Riverside Elem.
Location:	3125 Pembrook Dr., Orlando, FL 32810
How the site was found:	co-worker gave me address
Comments:	I need ideas! Our 3rd grade team has asked if I can speak to our 3rd graders about motivation. They say they lack motivation, do not attempt work unless someone starts the task 1st, they have little parent support, they do not find the value of doing a task or accomplishing something. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do or say to these children? Is there anything I can make into a flyer to send home to the parents? Please e-mail soon!

Date:	Thu Jan 18 11:18:32 2001
Name:	Jay Cone
E-mail:	jcone@interactionassociates.com
Organization:	Interaction Associates
Location:	Dallas, TX
How the site was found:	I'm a fan of Alfie's work - searched on his name
Comments:	Anyone out there involved with Destination Imagination or Odyssey of the Mind

Date:	Wed Jan 17 09:29:35 2001
Name:	pamela slicker
E-mail:	slickerdanny@aol.com
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:	canton repository daily newspaper
Comments:	I am so glad that this idea is being brought to people's attention in the newspapers. I wish I had had a teacher who had read Mr. Kohn's books when i was a child. School is torture to a child who does not fit into the mold.

Date:	Wed Jan 17 09:00:27 2001
Name:	John Pierce
E-mail:	zorbpierce@aol.com
Organization:	Board of Ed -- CCSD 64
Location:	Park Ridge and Niles, Illinois
How the site was found:	"The Schools Our Children Deserve"
Comments:	I've loved the book.

Date:	Tue Jan 16 23:12:55 2001
Name:	Marty Martinez
E-mail:	mpjmar@aol.com
Organization:	First Grade Teacher
Location:	San Diego
How the site was found:	Read a newspaper article
Comments:	THANK GOD someone understands what education is! I have emailed every talk show host in hopes of getting some public exposure for the travisty taking place in our schools lately. No one seems to want to touch the subject or doesn't understand. Well I am on the front lines, and sick of the recent assessing that takes place almost daily. Poor little children eager to please and eager to learn are being shot down left and right. Now the little egos are suffering the blow of retention because they are not STANDARD! They aren't even given the time to process anything they are suppose to learn before more is handed them. Makes me sick and sad! I see their little faces everyday. Wide eyed, waiting for some acknowledgement that they are of some value. Well to me, each and every one has a special talent and it's my job to build on that and not punish them for what they were not wired to do and never will be wired or able to do. Unfortunately, there are few like me. I have been teaching for 17 years and we are back to where we were when I started. Fortunately I was around for the whole language, muli-intelligence, developmentally appropriate education later on down the line. I find it very difficult to abandon all that finally made sense, and worked, for this back to basics bull shit! Too bad I feel like the lone ranger and am mandated to test, test, test. I have lost so much teaching time due to this freak'in testing. Everybody looses! I sure hope you can make some impact, because this is scary!

Date:	Tue Jan 16 18:51:02 2001
Name:	candi
E-mail:	007@wrightwood.net
Organization:	i'm in high school
Location:	california
How the site was found:	www.stopstandardsandtesting.virtualave.net
Comments:	Nice site, it helped me find articles for my research project and speech on the affects on SATs on people who do well and those who don't do well. thank you.

Date:	Mon Jan 15 21:50:34 2001
Name:	Toni Kempler
E-mail:	tkempler@umich.edu
Organization:	University of Michigan
Location:	Ann Arbor, MI
How the site was found:	The Washington Post
Comments:	I was introduced to "Punished By Rewards" in an undergraduate seminar. I currently study student motivation at the Combined Program in Education and Psychology at the U of M. My efforts in education stem from what I have seen in the classroom-similar to the philosophies that Kohn has promoted in his text. I am hoping to put my research efforts into improving the classroom environment. Specifically, I am interested in discovering what in the environment promotes student thoughfulness and in helping students reach deeper levels of thought. I also have a dream of building a bridge between self-determination theor and goal theory.

Date:	Mon Jan 15 17:41:42 2001
Name:	Carmela Brown, Ed.D.
E-mail:	carmela@softcom.net
Organization:	Chapman University Academic Center
Location:	Sacramento, CA
How the site was found:	ASCD
Comments:	I appreciate the understanding which Mr. Kohn attempts to bring to education. His writing is insightful and dares to question the status quo. Thank you!

Date:	Mon Jan 15 17:41:28 2001
Name:	Carmela Brown, Ed.D.
E-mail:	carmela@softcom.net
Organization:	Chapman University Academic Center
Location:	Sacramento, CA
How the site was found:	ASCD
Comments:	I appreciate the understanding which Mr. Kohn attempts to bring to education. His writing is insightful and dares to question the status quo. Thank you!

Date:	Sun Jan 14 14:42:34 2001
Name:	Debra Alderman
E-mail:	debra@cyberscribe.com
Organization:
Location:	Seattle, WA
How the site was found:	mentioned in A.K.'s books
Comments:	Since reading Mr. Kohn's books, I have become one of his biggest fans. I would like to plunk a copy of "The Schools our Children Deserve" on the desk of every school principal and every policy maker in the country! I am interested now in two things: 1) Either connecting with or creating a regional organization here in the Northwest to bring together those involved with progressive education and those who would like to help Mr. Kohn's ideas infiltrate and impact public education policy. 2) to locate academics and universities which are actively pursuing and supporting research and analysis on progressive education techniques, and which might be places where I'd consider doing graduate work. Any help from Mr. Kohn or other visitors to this site would be most welcome. Please contact me via e-mail. Thanks, and good luck to all who share an enlightened vision of education!

Date:	Sun Jan 14 06:21:10 2001
Name:	Dena Stanley
E-mail:	wrkn4jstis@erols.com
Organization:	Ridgecrest Elementary School
Location:	Prince George's Co. MD
How the site was found:	Kohn-talk email list member
Comments:	I've read most of Kohn's books and am striving to make my first grade class a community of caring learners.

Date:	Sat Jan 13 16:33:44 2001
Name:	Karen Howle
E-mail:	Momiopus@aol.com
Organization:	Kindergarten Teacher
Location:	Florida
How the site was found:	Educational Leadership
Comments:	Do you ever speak to groups in Florida? I would like to hear you speak to a group of educator/parents. Please let me know if you will be on Oprah again. I don't watch on a regular basis, but would be interested in viewing you on her show.

Date:	Fri Jan 12 23:29:10 2001
Name:	Joe Pennino
E-mail:	doppio2000@yahoo.com
Organization:	Teletech Holdings
Location:	Denver, CO
How the site was found:
Comments:	Mr. Kohn: I read your books while I was in a teacher training program at Metro State College in Denver. I thought I had a delayed vocation to be a teacher. I fairly RAN from the public school system after I did my student teaching. I had an excellent cooperating teacher who gave me the full dose, thank God. I ended up in an e-commerce company very thankful that I had a soft landing outside education. Your chapter on evaluation is particularly appropriate to work situations. I don't know how many times I have been 'evaluated' by a supervisor who attempted to characterize the session as counseling. Also for a time I worked at a very successful small business, a limousine company, whose manager/owner evaluated performance in exact conformity to your recommendation in PBR.That is, he didn't evaluate. He was smart enough to know he didn't know anything about what the job involved so he asked peers to help struggling employees eliminate mistakes when it was obvious toeveryone that a particular employee was not performing. No raise was involved, no paperwork. The employees helping out were acknowledged by the entire staff to be very skilled and they had helpful things to say to enhance tips, promote good driving, the whole nine yards. The manager/owner of that company avoided confrontations, unnecessary paperwork and the idiocy of some formal sitdown evaluation ritual for a .25hr raise. I hope this website will tell me where you are speaking this year and if you have any videos available.

Date:	Fri Jan 12 22:47:54 2001
Name:	Joseph Pennino
E-mail:	doppio2000@yahoo.com
Organization:	Teletech Holdings
Location:	Denver CO
How the site was found:	Browsing
Comments:	I am wondering if Mr. Kohn has any hardbound recent publications.

Date:	Fri Jan 12 18:32:01 2001
Name:	Carol Mohler
E-mail:	HSCconnect@aol.com
Organization:	The Education Connection
Location:	Seattle, Washington
How the site was found:	Heinemann Publishing Co.
Comments:

Date:	Fri Jan 12 11:25:51 2001
Name:	Terri Hutton
E-mail:	thutton@caeyc.org
Organization:	California Association for the Education of Young Children
Location:	Sacramento
How the site was found:	Book/search
Comments:

Date:	Fri Jan 12 09:48:03 2001
Name:	Dr. Bill Packing
E-mail:	packing@gte.net
Organization:	Sarasota County School Board
Location:	Sarasota
How the site was found:	Very interesting and informative.
Comments:	I like your ideas and I hope more teaachers, school administrators would join your crusade. I'm sharing your website to most of the teachers and administrators that shares the same concern.

Date:	Fri Jan 12 09:47:45 2001
Name:	Dr. Julie Bauer
E-mail:	jbauer@msdsteuben.k12.in.us
Organization:	MSD of Steuben County
Location:	Angola, IN 46703
How the site was found:	ASCD SmartBrief
Comments:

Date:	Fri Jan 12 04:14:10 2001
Name:	Elaine Delay
E-mail:	e.delay@virgin.net
Organization:	Aim At The Stars Training's and Consultancy
Location:	London England
How the site was found:	Mara Christie
Comments:	Do you have a mailing list? If so could I join?

Date:	Thu Jan 11 22:34:07 2001
Name:	Kathy Seiwert
E-mail:	kfseiwert
Organization:
Location:	Placentia, Ca.
How the site was found:	CalState Teach
Comments:

Date:	Thu Jan 11 22:30:37 2001
Name:	keith kroll
E-mail:	kkroll@kvcc.edu
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:	Colleague
Comments:	Keep up the fight!

Date:	Thu Jan 11 20:52:40 2001
Name:	Juanita Cutler
E-mail:	windytchr@aol.com
Organization:	Flintstone Elementary School
Location:	Oxon Hill MD
How the site was found:	read about it in an article in Washington Post
Comments:	As a Montessori teacher in a public school, I wholeheartedly agree with your principles, have read your books "No Contest," and "Punished by Rewards." Since Dr Maria Montessori was one of the earliest educators opposing rewards, I am surprised you didn't mention her in either of these books. I am unalterably opposed to, and in fact, heartsick about, the standardization of curriculum and tests sweeping the country. Keep up the good work, I intend to catch one of your lectures.

Date:	Thu Jan 11 20:30:19 2001
Name:	Connie B. Carter
E-mail:	cbcarter@lvcm.com
Organization:	LaMadre Mountain School
Location:	Las Vegas, NV
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Thu Jan 11 18:43:15 2001
Name:	Dr. Stephen Levy
E-mail:	slevy@pipeline.com
Organization:	President PDK, Teachers College, Columbia U.
Location:	L.I.NY
How the site was found:	Washington Post article online
Comments:	Principal Middle School, Member,Children's Scholarship Fund National Teachers Advisory Board. Am interested in AK's philosophy.

Date:	Thu Jan 11 14:30:29 2001
Name:	richard warner
E-mail:	warneri@gw.fargo.k12.nd.us
Organization:	fargo south high school
Location:	fargo nd
How the site was found:	ascd smartbrief
Comments:

Date:	Thu Jan 11 08:48:53 2001
Name:	Leni Nazare
E-mail:	nazare@erols.com
Organization:
Location:	Reston, VA
How the site was found:	Washington Post article
Comments:	I plan to learn more about your approach. I am very interested in homeschooling my daughter in middle school (which is 3 years from now) partly because I want her to discover the thrill of learning for herself -- not for a grade. Right now taking her out of the GT public school program that she's in is not practical -- nor desirable. At the present time she's still getting the basics down and having a very good social experience. Later we can build on the basics and really experience the joy of hands-on discovery learning focused on her interests. I have a group of friends who are thinking of doing the same thing. We are in a book group together and I plan to propose some of your work as reading material for our book group.

Date:	Thu Jan 11 08:20:36 2001
Name:	VIrginia E. Hines, Ed.D.
E-mail:	vhines@gw.lssu.edu
Organization:	Lake Superior State University
Location:	Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan
How the site was found:	inquiry based learning :)
Comments:	As I begin another semester of teaching preservice teachers I once again am pulling out the Kohn articles, tapes, and books. I truely believe that the "Chnage" must be made by a grassroots effort and I am happy to do my part. Thanks for the inspiration.

Date:	Thu Jan 11 08:11:54 2001
Name:	VIrginia E. Hines, Ed.D.
E-mail:	vhines@gw.lssu.edu
Organization:	Lake Superior State University
Location:	Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan
How the site was found:	inquiry based learning :)
Comments:	As I begin another semester of teaching preservice teachers I once again am pulling out the Kohn articles, tapes, and books. I truely believe that the "Chnage" must be made by a grassroots effort and I am happy to do my part. Thanks for the inspiration.

Date:	Thu Jan 11 06:47:21 2001
Name:	Paul C. Reviere
E-mail:	previere@lincoln.k12.ga.us
Organization:	Lincoln County Elementary School
Location:	Lincolnton, Georgia
How the site was found:	Connected from ASCD Smartbrief site
Comments:	Thanks for your common-sense insight into the concerns of standardized testing. I am a 27 year veteran of third grade, and I am increasingly concerned for the direction education is currently moving with regards to testing. Continue your good work; it is certainly to become a catalyst for much needed change.

Date:	Wed Jan 10 23:00:22 2001
Name:	Ruth Timberlake
E-mail:	stutpbrn@raex.com
Organization:	Waterloo Local Schools
Location:	Atwater, Ohio 44201
How the site was found:	Mary O'brien
Comments:	Keep on spreading the message, Alfie. You are saying what hundreds of us in Ohio are trying to tell our politicians about the ills of "high stakes" testing. Please continue. Also, to others reading these messages, I suggest for reading "The Manufactured Crisis" by David Berliner and Bruce Biddle. We need to organize and fight this movement by the politicians and big business to take over our schools. We, the teachers, are the experts here, not the CEO's of Proctor and Gamble, IBM, etc. Alfie, don't give up and teachers, stand up for what is right for the "kids". Ruth Timberlake

Date:	Wed Jan 10 20:19:25 2001
Name:	Mark Kisselbach
E-mail:	mwkbach@hotmail.com
Organization:	Kingwood Township School
Location:	660 Route 519, Frenchtown, NJ 08825
How the site was found:	washingtonpost.com
Comments:	I teach in the type of school Kohn would hate--traditional, conservative, etc. In fact many teachers, and our principal encourage us to teach to the 8th grade GEPA test. In my graduate courses, action research and constructivism are the rule. At Kingwood, they are terms that bring about smug attitudes, especially by the so-called "head" of my Language Arts Dept. Thank God for Kohn! Please help me! Can I also help you? Thanks, Mark Kisselbach

Date:	Wed Jan 10 19:04:12 2001
Name:	Thomas O'Rourke
E-mail:	karen-tom@erols.com
Organization:	American University
Location:	Washington, DC
How the site was found:	Washington Post article January 9, 2001
Comments:	I've been a fan since reading and using your essay on "Self-Esteem" during an Ed Psych class. I'm starting my student teaching next week and hope to teach high school social studies in the future. Please include my address in any listserve you have re: publications, appearances, etc. Keep up your informed, humane, and rational thinking and communications. Sincerely, Tom O'Rourke

Date:	Wed Jan 10 17:04:02 2001
Name:	Carla Uhrmacher
E-mail:	cuhrmach@esu6.org
Organization:	ESU #6
Location:	Nebraska
How the site was found:	ASCD SmartBrief
Comments:

Date:	Wed Jan 10 15:23:51 2001
Name:	Dr. Val Keiper
E-mail:	Val.Keiper@cuw.edu
Organization:	Concordia University Wisconsin
Location:	Mequon, Wisconsin
How the site was found:	colleague
Comments:	Help us fight the standardized test movement here in the state of Wisconsin. I have a copy of The Case Against Standardized Testing on my desk right now and am currently teaching an early childhood class on the uses and abuses of standardized test. Resources would always be helpful.

Date:	Wed Jan 10 13:10:38 2001
Name:	Dr. Paul Holm
E-mail:	PaulEric@aol.com
Organization:
Location:	Richmond, Indiana
How the site was found:
Comments:	Indiana needs your help! The legislature has passed a law mandating school improvement committees - improvement (or lack of) will be judged based on the state test scores. Schools will be rated based on whether or not they are "improving". This is just going to increase the already large emphasis placed on this test. The local high school has dumped the honors English students into large classes to free up teachers to tutor the high school students that haven't passed the test yet. THIS IS MADNESS!!! And Bush wants more tests tied to federal funding?

Date:	Wed Jan 10 12:50:02 2001
Name:	Peter Hobbs
E-mail:	phobbs@rcdvictoria.org
Organization:	Catholic IndependentSchools, Diocese of Victoria
Location:	Victoria, BC, Canada
How the site was found:	ASCD SmartBrief
Comments:	Your article "Rescuing Schools from 'Tougher Standards'" raised some intersting issues. While there is real concern about education in Canada and a potpourri of suggestions as to how it can be improved we have not been subjected to the demands of standardized testing found in the USA. While the latter are used in many jurisdictions, they are used either as diagnostic tools or in conjunction with other measures of achievement, eg, tests, assignments, exams, etc. Even provincial exams, administered in Grade XII, only account for a % of the final mark in most provinces. Your article will be a useful discussion-starter at one of our meetings of the Aministrators'Council. Peter Hobbs

Date:	Wed Jan 10 12:04:28 2001
Name:	Cheryl R. Kreiser
E-mail:	shuvah@erols.com
Organization:	Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County, Religious School
Location:	Bethesda, MD
How the site was found:	Washington Post
Comments:	I am a professional "Hebrew School" educator, 20 years and still loving it...and always looking for ways to give my students the best experience. Think about visiting our area. Our annual Professional Day is...quite..boring. We could use a new source of inspiration.

Date:	Wed Jan 10 11:51:44 2001
Name:	Katherine Grubbs
E-mail:	gosox@gateway.net
Organization:	University of Maryland - College Park
Location:	MD
How the site was found:	article in Washington Post 1/09/01
Comments:	I was very interested and excited to read about Kohn's work. I have long been mistrustful of the momentum toward the increased testing and standardization of our schools at all levels. My daughter attends a Montessori/Waldorf preschool and even they have to contend at some level with the statewide testing expectations here in MD. It is somewhat disheartening to contemplate, but Kohn's site appears to offer some concrete suggestions and references which could/will prove useful to those of us interested in this "fight." Thank you!

Date:	Wed Jan 10 11:30:10 2001
Name:	John Gawronski
E-mail:	jjgski@hotmail.com
Organization:	The Washington Post
Location:	Washington, DC
How the site was found:	Jan 9 edition of The Washinton Post (p. A10)
Comments:	I earned an secondary education degree in 1998 and was to transition to a (second) career in teaching for the 1999-2000 school year. Something tragic happened that altered that course. In any event, during my student teaching in a Northern VA high school, I was appalled by the change from one semester to the next from teachers teaching "life skills" to teaching to a standardized test that went into partial effect the spring before. The test results were reported in Nov. of that year, and after the winter break, teachers began teaching kids in ways that would ensure their success on the upcoming test rather than continuing to employ meaningful lesson plans. It was a total turn off. I was taken by your efforts and ideas share in yesterday's Washington Post "Schools & Learning" section, and was interested to learn what if any efforts you, or like-minded individuals, might be taking regarding federal education reform initiatives.

Date:	Wed Jan 10 11:28:18 2001
Name:	John Gawronski
E-mail:	jjgski@hotmail.com
Organization:	The Washington Post
Location:	Washington, DC
How the site was found:	Jan 9 edition of The Washinton Post (p. A10)
Comments:	I earned an secondary education degree in 1998 and was to transition to a (second) career in teaching for the 1999-2000 school year. Something tragic happened that altered that course. In any event, during my student teaching in a Northern VA high school, I was appalled by the change from one semester to the next from teachers teaching "life skills" to teaching to a standardized test that went into partial effect the spring before. The test results were reported in Nov. of that year, and after the winter break, teachers began teaching kids in ways that would ensure their success on the upcoming test rather than continuing to employ meaningful lesson plans. It was a total turn off. I was taken by your efforts and ideas share in yesterday's Washington Post "Schools & Learning" section, and was interested to learn what if any efforts you, or like-minded individuals, might be taking regarding federal education reform initiatives.

Date:	Wed Jan 10 11:28:04 2001
Name:	Marion Mahoney
E-mail:	mahoney7@erols.com
Organization:
Location:	Potomac, MD
How the site was found:	article in Washington Post
Comments:	CONGRATULATIONS! I am a private school teacher - having taught at Fay School (MA)and most recently at Norwood School (MD). Fay, I think, fit the description of a school you would think did things right. I was the Lower School Reading/Literature teacher there for three years and was free to use my creativity. It was a wonderful experience (I received an M.Ed. from Lesley College - which encouraged and rewarded the creative approach. My GPA was 3.93). Education systems in MD - both public and private - are bureaucratic and standardized. Perhaps it was my team at Norwood, but they bowed to a filing cabinet holding years' worth of worksheets - Zzzzz! I lost interest myself since the approach was so boring. I would like to help your effort - at the moment I am not working.

Date:	Wed Jan 10 11:13:32 2001
Name:	Rebecca Sells
E-mail:	rsells2@mail.state.tn.us
Organization:	State Department of Education
Location:	1st TN Regional Office - Johnson City
How the site was found:	ASCD Smart Brief
Comments:	I enjoyed visiting your site today and plan to revisit soon!

Date:	Wed Jan 10 10:44:06 2001
Name:	Barbara Schultz
E-mail:	schultz@westbloomfield.k12.mi.us
Organization:	West Bloomfield Sch. Dist.
Location:	West Bloomfield, MI
How the site was found:	referenced in a memo from Oakland ISD
Comments:

Date:	Wed Jan 10 10:41:01 2001
Name:	Phyllis Gilbert
E-mail:	mailto:pgilbert@hotmail.com%20or%20pgilbert@durantisd.org
Organization:	school
Location:	Durant, Ok
How the site was found:	by accident!!
Comments:	Thanks for your efforts on behalf of our children,,,,,

Date:	Wed Jan 10 10:08:18 2001
Name:	Janet Wilkinson
E-mail:	janewilk@gyrd.ab.ca
Organization:	Grande Yellowhead Regional Division #35
Location:	Edson, AB. Canada
How the site was found:	Through the ASCD Smartbrief
Comments:	I am interested in learning more about Alfie Kohn because I am going to hear him speak in Edmonton on Febuary 2, 2001.

Date:	Wed Jan 10 09:59:33 2001
Name:	Dorothy Winslow
E-mail:	dotkan@yahoo.com
Organization:	High school/Middle school
Location:	Maryville, MO
How the site was found:	ASCD briefs
Comments:

Date:	Wed Jan 10 08:26:14 2001
Name:	Diane S. Barlow
E-mail:	crbhouse@aol.com
Organization:
Location:	Herndon, VA
How the site was found:	Teacher at school where I work
Comments:	I would like to know more about your thoughts. I don't believe standardized testing is for every student. I believe the way you do that you need to stimulte children to learn - testing is ridiculous. Thank you.

Date:	Wed Jan 10 06:27:00 2001
Name:	Judi Fenton
E-mail:	jfenton@cms.edu.do
Organization:	Carol Morgan School
Location:	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
How the site was found:	ASCD
Comments:

Date:	Tue Jan 9 23:44:36 2001
Name:	Lynn Evans
E-mail:	evans@northiowa.org
Organization:	North Iowa High School
Location:	Buffalo Center, Iowa
How the site was found:	ASCD Smartbrief
Comments:

Date:	Tue Jan 9 22:23:13 2001
Name:	S SUndaram
E-mail:	lallisundar@hotmail.com
Organization:	THe Shriram School
Location:	New Delhi, India
How the site was found:	THrough Reading Room of ASCD.Org
Comments:	I find your ideas extremely insightful, mind blowing and thought provoking. Being in India, buying many of your books is very expensive. Would like to have access ato as much of your material in the public domain.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 21:49:27 2001
Name:	Eva Benita A. Tuzon
E-mail:	evatuzon@hotmail.com
Organization:	student at University of the Philippines
Location:	Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
How the site was found:	through your book I just bought
Comments:	I am currently reading your book which I am going to critic as part of our academic requirements (book review). I have personally chosen the book Punished By Rewards. Our class is Public Adm. 208 (Public Ethics).

Date:	Tue Jan 9 21:48:45 2001
Name:	Ben Balser
E-mail:	balser@coe.fsau.edu
Organization:	Florida State University
Location:	Tallahassee, Fl.
How the site was found:	On ASCD smartbrief
Comments:

Date:	Tue Jan 9 20:08:03 2001
Name:	Fran Mossberg
E-mail:	fransm7905@aol.com
Organization:	Providence Public Schools
Location:	Providence, RI
How the site was found:	ASCD Newsbriefs
Comments:	I am a strong proponent of your work and support your campaign against standardized tests as the sole measure of student success. Keep up the great work.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 19:47:49 2001
Name:	Margaret Murphy
E-mail:	mmurphy@cccsd.org
Organization:	ChurchvilleChili Central School District
Location:	Suburb of Rochester, NY
How the site was found:	ASCD news
Comments:	I love Alfie Kohn. As Principal and long time teacher, humor gets 'em every time, teachers and students. I use Mr. Kohn's books with all my teachers. I just finished a book talk on What to Look for in a Classroom, every loved it! I'm with him and his philosophies . . .

Date:	Tue Jan 9 19:39:42 2001
Name:	Mary Ann Ratliff
E-mail:	MAR5319610@aol.com
Organization:	Hillsborough County Public Schools
Location:	Tampa, Florida
How the site was found:	Ed. Leadership; Your Tampa ASCD Presentation
Comments:

Date:	Tue Jan 9 19:39:29 2001
Name:	Don T.
E-mail:	wordsmth@mail.com
Organization:	[self]
Location:	Northern Virginia
How the site was found:	Washington Post article
Comments:	Hate to disagree with all of you, but.... I agree that children (in fact, all people) learn best and most easily when they're interested in the subject and when it's taught well. I agree that good teachers can motivate students. And I agree that standardized tests have substantial limitations in their abilities to adapt to different learning and test-taking styles and in their ability to measure logic and thinking process. However.... Two quick points. Number one: Some information just has to be memorized or learned by rote. States and capitals...the multiplication tables...the names of the elements...trig. formulas (sine, cosine, tangent, etc.), and so forth. Maybe it can be made a bit more interesting. (I learned my multiplication tables by listening to catchy nursery-rhyme-type tunes.) I learned Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species by remembering the sentence: Kings Play Chess On Friday Grinning Slyly. But, in the end, it's memorization. You're not going to learn it by osmosis. Second point: While standardized tests have their limitations, you've got to have some method of measuring learning and learning progress. Without testing and without standards, you have no effective way to gauge progress. (And if you do support testing, how do you make it consistent without some sort of standardization?)

Date:	Tue Jan 9 18:45:11 2001
Name:	Terry Martin
E-mail:	tmartin@wiu.k12.pa.us
Organization:	public school administrator
Location:	Irwin, Pennsylvania
How the site was found:	logging on to ASCD daily news update
Comments:	I enjoy your writing, especially what I read on the testing and accountability issues. After 34 years,28 in the classroom, I worry that we've forgotten about the kids in our all out effort to raise test scores.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 18:09:17 2001
Name:	Roberta Weaver
E-mail:	roberta.weaver@notes.udayton.edu
Organization:	University of Dayton
Location:	Dayton, Ohio
How the site was found:	ASCD BRIEF
Comments:	Thanks. Enjoy your materials.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 17:04:17 2001
Name:	Buckey Boone
E-mail:	buckey@naxs.com
Organization:	Washington County School Board
Location:	Abingdon, Virginia
How the site was found:	Washington Post article
Comments:	I wonder if you would be willing to come to a rural area to speak to parents and educators - Southwest Virginia? I hope we can inspire a grass roots reaction against Virginia's SOL system.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 17:00:57 2001
Name:	MONTREAL
E-mail:	MDGORE1@HOTMAIL.COM
Organization:	TEACHER
Location:	ATLANTA, GA
How the site was found:	ASCD
Comments:	WAY TO GO, KOHN. I JUST HOPE THE LEGISLATORS WILL LISTEN TO YOU. BESIDES, YOUR CRITICISMS OF EDUCATION QUESTION OUR CAPITALISTIC SOCIETY AS A WHOLE.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 16:30:50 2001
Name:	Joe Burke
E-mail:	jburke@vc.bc.ca
Organization:	Vancouver College (K-12 boys' school)
Location:	VAncouver B.C.
How the site was found:	Link from Washington Post Article
Comments:	I am very pleased to discover that Mr. Kohn continues to fight the important battle against the pervasive spread of testing as an answer to anything let alone to the educational needs of students.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 16:15:02 2001
Name:	Murray Cooper
E-mail:	mcooper@ite.net
Organization:	Guam Adventist Academy
Location:	Guam, USA
How the site was found:	Subscribe to ASCD Smart Brief
Comments:

Date:	Tue Jan 9 16:05:15 2001
Name:	Jimmie Lou DeBakey
E-mail:	jimmied@ricochet.net
Organization:	education Consultant
Location:	Bethesda, Maryland
How the site was found:	Ed Week/Washington Post
Comments:	I love you. I love your message. Don't ever stop.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 15:57:19 2001
Name:	Robyn MacKillop
E-mail:	rmackill@yahoo.com
Organization:	South Salem High School
Location:	Salem, OR
How the site was found:	ACSD.com
Comments:	When are you speaking in Oregon?

Date:	Tue Jan 9 15:49:06 2001
Name:	Judith M. Eure
E-mail:	ejudy7442@aol.com
Organization:	Portsmouth Public Schools
Location:	Portsmouth, Virginia
How the site was found:	From ASCD
Comments:

Date:	Tue Jan 9 15:45:52 2001
Name:	Dr. Rick Kolowski-Principal Millard West H.S.
E-mail:	rkolowsk@mpsomaha.org
Organization:	and International President-Phi Delta Kappa
Location:	Omaha, Nebraska
How the site was found:	ASCD SmartBrief
Comments:	Keep up the good work - nice article in the January Kappan Magazine. I have enjoyed listening to your presentations in the past. Keep fighting for some sanity in the process!!

Date:	Tue Jan 9 15:39:27 2001
Name:	phyllis rozen
E-mail:	pjrozen@browne.corpus-christi.k-12.tx.us
Organization:	Tom browne Middle school
Location:	Corpus Christi, Texas
How the site was found:	ASCD Smartbrief
Comments:	Great reading your info. Always enjoy hearing Mr. Kohn speak!

Date:	Tue Jan 9 15:27:22 2001
Name:	Mary Ann Rudy, Ph.D.
E-mail:	mrudy@csc.edu
Organization:	Chadron State College
Location:	Chadron, Nebraska 69337
How the site was found:	Via ASCD Smart Brief
Comments:	An English education professor, who has read a couple of your books and heard you speak at NCTE Denver, I want to support your crusade.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 15:19:23 2001
Name:	Paul
E-mail:	paullyVT99@msn.com
Organization:
Location:	Washington, DC
How the site was found:	Washington Post Article Jan 9, 2001
Comments:	I got incredibly low scores on my SATs (780 combined first time and 820 combined on my second), but had a 3.3 when I graduated High School, went to college and graduated with a 3.2-- Point #1 Standardized tests mean nothing. In my first college english class, I remember the professor completely ripping apart the class for the way we wrote our first collegiate essays. On the board, he outlined exactly what we learned in High School English class on how to write an essay in college- we all agreed that that was the proper way- then he basically told us that everything we had learned was wrong. I learned that, for the most part, the teachers were "teaching to the test" all the way through grade school and all I really learned was how to take a test (of course in the case of Standardized Tests- I failed...). Point #2- Teaching to the tests doesn't teach anything. Now I work with kids from pre-k through high school and witness first hand the enormous amount of pointless stress that these kids go through with rote memorization, intense competition, and standardized learning. And the parents and kids have bought into the stress, based on how we need to get tough and more competitive with our kids on education- if something you're doing doesn't positively inforce this stress, and the benefits cannot be objectively measured, then they will rise up against it- which is now my struggle. I have seen and experienced the danger of our new "get tough on education" country, and am personally concerned about what our kids are learning. This idea and web-site is good. I'm wondering if there are any plans for or actual schools that use this method?

Date:	Tue Jan 9 15:16:35 2001
Name:	Dale
E-mail:	Skoreyko
Organization:	Edmonton Public Schools
Location:	Edmonton Alberta Canada
How the site was found:	ASCD Smart Pages
Comments:	'Burnt at the High Stakes', as a high school teacher, and now an elementary/junior high principal, I couldn't agree more!

Date:	Tue Jan 9 15:12:54 2001
Name:	William Buchanan
E-mail:	waba@scientist.com
Organization:	WABA, Inc.
Location:	Palo Alto, CA
How the site was found:	newspaper article
Comments:	Your work is outstanding, timely, and very much appreciated. The "testing" scourge is quite a threat to our society, and championed by very ignorant people. Keep up the good work, and together we will triumph over this stupidity.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 15:12:03 2001
Name:	Judy Knepper
E-mail:	jkknep@aol.com
Organization:	none
Location:	Alexandria, VA
How the site was found:	website included in W.Post article
Comments:	I completely agree, and I'm just a bystander listening to teacher friend's complaints about her disciplinary and curriculum problems in her first year of teaching. She doesn't especially question the standardized tests--she's teaching for the tests, aware that her program is being measured on the students' test scores. I'm baffled by the fact that her AP Government classes have no criteria for enrollment. Anyone can sign up, and about half can't do the work, she says, but apparently they'll be tested and their scores establishes the teacher's effectiveness. A no-win situation. Ridiculous. I currently have no children in the public school system.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 14:56:46 2001
Name:	Cindy Wrenn Swecker
E-mail:	TemperCWS@aol.com
Organization:	Prince William County Schools
Location:	Virginia
How the site was found:	ASCD
Comments:	It is so refreshing to have a nationally known writer speak out on an issue that is so important. As an assistant principal I have watched wonderfully creative teachers become slaves to workbooks and worksheets simply to raise standardized test scores on tests that do nothing more that determine whether or not a child can rememeber lists of facts. We should be teaching our children how to access information not memorize it. Thank you Mr. Kohn!

Date:	Tue Jan 9 14:45:31 2001
Name:	David Richards
E-mail:	drichards@rotherglen.com
Organization:	Rotherglen School
Location:	Oakville Ontario
How the site was found:	ASCD
Comments:	I heard Alfie speak last winter. I think he takes his ideas a little too far, but he sure is refreshing.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 14:42:55 2001
Name:	Diane Fair
E-mail:	dfair@gateway.southlakecarroll.edu
Organization:	Rockenbaugh Elementary School
Location:	Southlake, Texas
How the site was found:	ASCD website
Comments:	I want to be able to read the articles sent out by ASCD. I am a member of the organization and am attending graduate classes in order to qualify for administrative positions within the state of Texas. (ie. Alfie Kohn)

Date:	Tue Jan 9 14:42:42 2001
Name:	Claudia Weigel
E-mail:	cweigel@concordia.com
Organization:	The Street Academy Charter School
Location:	New Orleans, Louisiana
How the site was found:	Washington Post article
Comments:	I developed a charter school in Louisiana targeting troubled teenagers with the goal of inspiring the love of learning in them through the application of arts techniques to the teaching process. The same year the school opened, the state passed a new high stakes standards-based initiative that requires standardized testing to advance in grades or to graduate. It has become almost impossible to implement alternative teaching methods when the curriculum is centered around what will appear on the LEAP or Graduation Exit test. In this state, if you propose a waiver from the required testing you are intrepreted as saying you "don't care if the children learn or not". It is impossible to convince test takers that their very tests can destroy the thrill of discovery and learning.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 14:12:20 2001
Name:	H. Bishop Dansby
E-mail:	bdansby@amcad.com
Organization:	AmCad
Location:	Harrisonburg, VA
How the site was found:	Washington Post Article, Jan 9, 2001
Comments:	Your views on better ways to learn reminded me of my son, Ben, age 15. He has always learned naturally, without being forced, and without being motivated just by grades. I am not sure that he knows that most of his peers are just "going for the grade." On arriving at your website, I am again reminded of my son, Ben. You should contact him about sprucing up your website. I am sure it is quite functional, but it is not as professional looking as it could and should be. Ben will make it look good. He probably will do it for free, too. You can check out his work at www.webwielder.com, or contact him at webmaster@webwielder.com.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 12:26:29 2001
Name:	David Snyder
E-mail:	djmj626@msn.com
Organization:	Musselman Middle School
Location:	Bunker Hill, WV
How the site was found:	Article in the post
Comments:	Alfie Kohn for Secretary of Education- so that teachers and students can be relieved of the burden of standardizied tests.

Date:	Tue Jan 9 11:27:02 2001
Name:	Barbara Blechman/Jodi White
E-mail:	JKurtis@jewishfedwash.org
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Tue Jan 9 09:48:07 2001
Name:	Joseph Daskalakes
E-mail:	gr8gul
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:	Library search, news article
Comments:

Date:	Tue Jan 9 09:16:29 2001
Name:	Susy S. Rothschild
E-mail:	susyr@pechan.com
Organization:
Location:	VA
How the site was found:	Jay Matthew's article on washingtonpost.com
Comments:	Thank you.

Date:	Fri Jan 5 18:21:28 2001
Name:	Diana Hazzard
E-mail:	hazzardh@npenn.org
Organization:	North Penn School District
Location:	Montgomery County, PA (N of Phila.)
How the site was found:	CN8 interview
Comments:	Congratulations on one of the most informed, articulate interviews on public education I've ever heard. I can't wait to read your publications. Thanks for speaking so eloquently! Now, can we get you on Good Morning America?

Date:	Fri Jan 5 17:56:00 2001
Name:	Mary VanCoons
E-mail:	marwil3449@yahoo.com
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:	web search
Comments:	are there any groups in the Los Angeles area that actively practice Alfie Kohn's precepts, I want to meet others that know what he says is true!!!! Please contact me A.S.A.P. @ marwil3449@yahoo.com. Thank you!

Date:	Fri Jan 5 17:52:20 2001
Name:	Mary VanCoons
E-mail:
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Fri Jan 5 12:12:57 2001
Name:	Thomas Neuville
E-mail:	thomas.neuville@millersville.edu
Organization:	Millersville University
Location:	Millersville, PA
How the site was found:	Long time reader of Mr. Kohn
Comments:	I do much organizational consulting. When I am asked about quality I always lead people and groups toward systems thinking and behaving. As I associate with schools I am finding it very difficult to show people the system paths toward quality. Does anyone know of tools and processes that seemingly replace testing and can give an insecure group support as they move toward more organic methods of knowing?

Date:	Fri Jan 5 03:54:58 2001
Name:	Rosemary Cooke
E-mail:	seafield@ihug.co.nz
Organization:
Location:	New Zealand
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Thu Jan 4 21:29:44 2001
Name:	Cherie Jensen
E-mail:	cheriejensen@go.com
Organization:	homeschooler
Location:	Mpls, MN
How the site was found:	can't remember the first time
Comments:	Have read The Schools Our Children Deserve. Next is Punished By Rewards. I have been trying to learn how to become an effective "teacher" and have some ideas planted by your book. Am reading about John Dewey and the progressive education movement and have read Miseducation by David Elkind. I'm very sure about what not to do, but don't know exactly how to go about doing it right. Where do I go next?

Date:	Thu Jan 4 17:19:11 2001
Name:	kathy keeney
E-mail:	kkeeney@lombardi.k12.wi.us
Organization:	science teacher
Location:	green bay, Wisconsin
How the site was found:	read a book by Alfie Kohn
Comments:	When I saw the book "The Case Against STandardized Testing", I couldn't believe someone believed the same things I do about standardized testing as a way to determine learning. As a teacher, I find it abominable. As parent, I find it worthless. Well, OK, I find it stupid, worthless, invaluable, controlling and useless as both. It is amazing how people will see standardized testing as a "quick fix" instead of the real harm it's doing to our kids.

Date:	Wed Jan 3 17:56:13 2001
Name:	Jay Mathews
E-mail:	mathewsj@washpost.com
Organization:	Washington Post
Location:	Alexandria, VA
How the site was found:	Alfie gave me the address.
Comments:	I don't believe I have ever visited a website with a guest book before. Nice and friendly.

Date:	Wed Jan 3 15:15:30 2001
Name:	John V. Carrier
E-mail:	lccjvc@vax2.winona.msus.edu
Organization:	The Lutheran Campus Center
Location:	Winona Minnesota
How the site was found:	refered by professor
Comments:

Date:	Wed Jan 3 15:04:47 2001
Name:	william s deacon
E-mail:	wdeacon@imseries.com
Organization:	Learning Technology Systems
Location:	Knoxville TN 37922
How the site was found:	knew your name from my books, did a search
Comments:	I am really pleased to find your site still available. I always mention "Punished by Rewards" when I do workshops with teachers on assessment practices. More and more I am receiving indications that they have read your work. Keep on keepin'on!

Date:	Wed Jan 3 12:57:57 2001
Name:	Sarah Puglisi
E-mail:	puglisi@isle.net
Organization:	Hathaway School Hueneme School District
Location:	basically Oxnard/Pt.Hueneme CA
How the site was found:	Reading Latest book
Comments:	I am a California teacher currently being driven by testing to consider the wider implications of what we are doing in terms of relegation/restriction to second language learners and those with fewer economic resources. Your book was very good to read. In my job, however it will be ignored by an administration responding to legislative mandate and with API breathing down their necks. Also in a school that loves to site it's lack of innovation in teachimg as maintainence of "Tradition". It's getting tougher to "Do the right thing" and clearly the tide with a Republican administration will turn toward further teacher boot kicking for accountability, more bowing to tests. It's a difficult time to think about what we are doing to children. I appreciate your books a great deal. sarah

Date:	Mon Jan 1 14:39:06 2001
Name:	Stanette Klatt
E-mail:	sklatt@willamette.edu
Organization:	Willamette University
Location:	Salem, OR
How the site was found:	google search
Comments:

Date:	Sat Dec 30 14:45:47 2000
Name:	Scott Lane
E-mail:	slane@seasurf.net
Organization:	Astoria School District
Location:	Astoria, Oregon 97103
How the site was found:	CNN
Comments:

Date:	Thu Dec 28 15:33:28 2000
Name:	Damien Cummings
E-mail:	dscummin@planetx.bloomu.edu
Organization:	n/a
Location:	n/a
How the site was found:	found it in Beyond Discipline
Comments:	Beyond Discipline is a brilliant work. I'd love to meet Mr. Kohn.

Date:	Thu Dec 28 11:20:15 2000
Name:	Peggy Wright
E-mail:	peggy@world.std.com
Organization:
Location:	Medford, MA
How the site was found:	google.com
Comments:	Dear Alfie Kohn I was talking w/ a teacher friend the other day. He's reading Punished by Rewards and really enjoying it. I mentioned that I'd read a few of your books in the early 90's. He asked how I'd heard of your books. I couldn't quite remember, but today I remembered! I read an article you wrote in Glamour Magazine. Probably the only time I've ever read anything in a Glamour Magazine. Goes to show. We find what we need to learn.

Date:	Sun Dec 24 23:05:52 2000
Name:	Doug Lewin
E-mail:	narada7@yahoo.com
Organization:	Sri Atmananda Memorial School
Location:	Austin, Texas
How the site was found:	I bought The Schools Our Children Deserve; found the site in it.
Comments:	My message is way too complex to fit in this space, but i'll sum it up real quick anyway. Life is defined by two things: loving and learning. Do both reckless abandon and unmitigated joy.

Date:	Sat Dec 23 11:43:31 2000
Name:	Tanya Sharon
E-mail:	ab6926@wayne.edu
Organization:	Detroit Public Schools
Location:	Detroit, MI
How the site was found:	attended your lecture at Whole Schooling Consortium
Comments:	After reading many of the entries here I am struck by the number of people who agree with what you have to say about rewards and about standardized tests yet feel alone with that position in their individual situations. I hope you are providing info at your speaking engagements to help people find like-minded others to work toward real change. I suggest the Whole Schooling Consortium whose website address is http://www.coe.wayne.edu/CommunityBuilding/WSC.html. Also Fairtest.org Tanya

Date:	Tue Dec 19 19:02:26 2000
Name:	Joseph Long
E-mail:	llong1@juno.com
Organization:	student
Location:	Reno, NV
How the site was found:	word of mouth
Comments:

Date:	Mon Dec 18 20:54:38 2000
Name:	Bill Speiser
E-mail:	wspeiser@nwr7.org
Organization:	Northwestern Regional HS # 7
Location:	Winsted, Ct
How the site was found:	Printed up Alfie Kohn
Comments:	Your observations are valid, but my colleagues are unable and or unwilling to kick the grade habit.

Date:	Mon Dec 18 20:21:32 2000
Name:	Les James
E-mail:	ljames@kodiak.k12.ak.us
Organization:	teacher
Location:	Kodiak, AK
How the site was found:	teacher referral
Comments:	Mr. Kohn, I'm an experienced teacher and I've wrestled with some of your ideas in 'Punished by Rewards' and your current endorsement in stirring up teachers via civil disobedience. Be careful in how you encourage civil disobedience without offering clear, concrete ways to implement change in our schools. If your name becomes connected with divisiveness among colleagues, I think your well-intentioned ideas will become overshadowed. While I agree rewards can be overdone and counterproductive, wouldn't you agree that encouraging civil disobedience can also be counterproductive in reforming education? Give me your vision for concrete change.It would also help if you were trying to implement these changes in your own classroom. Your credibility rating would increase if you were a full-time teacher trying to make a difference in front of real kids on a daily basis. Thanks for allowing me to respond.

Date:	Mon Dec 18 19:45:08 2000
Name:	Les James
E-mail:	ljames@kodiak.k12.ak.us
Organization:	teacher
Location:	Kodiak, Ak
How the site was found:	teacher referral
Comments:

Date:	Mon Dec 18 16:04:53 2000
Name:	Professor Wilson Xu
E-mail:	w-xu@ski.mskcc.org
Organization:	Sloan-Kettering/Cornell
Location:	New York, NY 10021
How the site was found:
Comments:	I have read some of your book and I would like to have your phone number for further discussion. Thank you Wilson Xu

Date:	Mon Dec 18 15:53:40 2000
Name:	jamie
E-mail:	jomie21@hotmail.com
Organization:
Location:	rochester,ny
How the site was found:	surfing
Comments:	thank you! i'm doing a project on how homework effects society and this has been the most helpful site yet.

Date:	Mon Dec 18 00:01:06 2000
Name:	Chris Holmes
E-mail:	chute44@juno.com
Organization:
Location:	Presque Isle, ME
How the site was found:
Comments:	GWB has to learn that our schools are doing such a poor job primarily because they are still essentially 19th century institutions. The "blame" if you will, should be placed at the governor level, not at the local level. It is folks like him who have continued to appoint status quo people to state boards of education and university trustee. Our system of education has never been thoroughly "re-thought" because it is so much easier for politicians to attack local officials and teachers, blaming poor schools on a willful negligence of local people. Mr. Bush and others are responsible for the seldom questioned and essentially incestuous system of teacher education and certification that has prevented any true reform of our schools. More testing and "accountability" will raise a few test scores marginally (or more in places like Texas where they were so low to start with) and little else of a positive nature. The challenge will always be with the "how" questions of school, not with the "what" or goals issue. The "how" questions are the hard questions that Mr. Bush's campaign ads should have referred to. He has taken the easy way by focusing on standards. His negative, "get tough" approach is just more of the same .....a focus on subject mattter not on the individual students. Schools need to be places where our children can continue to learn in the same ways that they learned before they entered school. They will learn positive values and develop good character, by following the examples of thoughtful, curious adults. The present system creates many of its own problems, including the need that to them requires of all things, classes in character education!

Date:	Sun Dec 17 18:44:51 2000
Name:	Dianne Smardon
E-mail:	diannes@waikato.ac.nz
Organization:	University of Waikato
Location:	New Zealand
How the site was found:	key word searching
Comments:	The work I am involved in, assessment for better learning (ABLe)focusses on teachers'formative assessement practices however this is not a term I am able to locate in American education sites. The focus tends to be upon assessment for either summative or evaluative purposes. The intent of this author however seems to be more in keeping with the philosophy of teaching and learning within which I am working. For example the "what to look for in a classroom" chart matches closely a task that we use entitled what would you expect to see in an ABLe classroom. I would include more regarding the focus of the teacher's interaction with students and the quality of feedback provided. Also include consideration of student knowledge and application of the purpose for the "learning"that they are involved in. Interesting to locate this site as it reassures me that the US may not be so totally test and grade driven as is sometimes apparent.

Date:	Sat Dec 16 16:12:10 2000
Name:	Jennifer H. Nicholson
E-mail:	mickjenn@mindspring.com
Organization:	Parent & Future Teacher (Univ. of Tenn)
Location:	Knoxville, TN
How the site was found:	From The Schools Our Children Deserve
Comments:	I keep reading and rereading your new book. Never have I found my own educational philosophy so eloquently described. I am unsure of how to proceed in enlightening my own local public school system. I have a child in 2nd grade and am sickened by the worksheets and phonics drills!

Date:	Fri Dec 15 20:01:46 2000
Name:	Nancy Dyer
E-mail:	dyers@concentric.net
Organization:	Concerned Parents of Gwinnett
Location:	Gwinnett, GA
How the site was found:	from you meeting.
Comments:

Date:	Fri Dec 15 09:59:09 2000
Name:	Van Dempsey
E-mail:	vdempsey@wvu.edu
Organization:	Benedum Collaborative,West Virginia University
Location:	Morgantown, WV
How the site was found:	Reference in one of Kohn's books
Comments:

Date:	Thu Dec 14 09:52:12 2000
Name:	Eldon Lee
E-mail:	Caplee@aol.com
Organization:
Location:	Milwaukee, WI
How the site was found:
Comments:	I had a student in my school that was on "4.5" reading level in what would have been 8th grade. (we didn't have grade levels) So, by "standards" he was a failed student and we were a failed school. However, he came to us 2 years prior at pre primer level and afraid to read. Are we still a failed school? Is he a failed student? Only by "standards" did he think of himself as failed. He erased that from his head and is now reading well.

Date:	Thu Dec 14 04:16:58 2000
Name:	jennifer jarrett
E-mail:	jjarrett@us.ibm.com
Organization:	self
Location:	19201 tyree ct. cornelius,nc
How the site was found:	return visit
Comments:	thank you, mr.kohn, for suggesting approaches for activating change. i met with my daughter's tenth grade teachers this week (two didn't walk out), and they agreed to read your ideas (i offered to print copies). wish me luck.

Date:	Wed Dec 13 15:09:02 2000
Name:	Brian Bailey
E-mail:	bbailey@vsb.bc.ca
Organization:	Vancouver School Board (personal opinion!)
Location:	Vancouver, Canada
How the site was found:	EDDRA GROUP
Comments:	Right on!! I taught ESL in Japan for 6 years and believe me, I witnessed the damage wrought by school rankings, curriculums designed for entrance exams only, etc. I wholeheartedly support your point of view (and most would probably disagree with me so I also admire your courage in the face of the standards bandwagon) BRAVO! I'm glad to know that there are others with sensible views on the purpose of public education.

Date:	Tue Dec 12 19:04:20 2000
Name:	Eldon Lee
E-mail:	Caplee@aol.com
Organization:	Lee education Consultants
Location:	Milwaukee, Wisconsin
How the site was found:	referred to it
Comments:	On higher level standards; We must stop failing children because they are not interested in learning something they will never need to know anyway! However, in areas of interest, let them go to infinity and beyond. C. Lee

Date:	Sat Dec 9 14:26:36 2000
Name:	William J. Carroll
E-mail:	wcarroll@massed.net
Organization:	Reading High School
Location:	Reading, Mass.
How the site was found:	from a Boston Globe column
Comments:	No real message, just a note of support for those interested in authentic learning and evaluation.

Date:	Sat Dec 9 12:43:08 2000
Name:	Beth Grover
E-mail:	bethgrover@poncacity.net
Organization:	Liberty Elementary School
Location:	Ponca City, OK 74604
How the site was found:	RTeacher listserve
Comments:	I would like any information on working with students who do have to take these standarized tests but are struggling readers. I am a reading specialist. Will you be speaking any time soon in Oklahoma or a state close by?

Date:	Fri Dec 8 15:21:31 2000
Name:	Aszure Yvette Johnson
E-mail:	aquaazzie@aol.com
Organization:	Student At South Mountain Community College
Location:	Phoenix, Arizona
How the site was found:	Looking for information about Alfie Kohn (the great:))
Comments:	In my Dynamic Learning (teacher education) class, we have studied many articles written by you. You are a great inspiration to me...I thought I was the only one who felt that rewards did not work. Most of the people in my class diagree with what you say...some people are even a little upset by what you say. I was the only one who supported you all the way. I would really like to come see you when you go on your lecture tour in Tucson...I think as a future teacher I need all the inspiration I can get. You have a lot of brillant ideas and I would like to maybe talk with you sometime. Thanks for this opportunity to commend your outstanding concepts....Sincerely, Aszure Johnson

Date:	Thu Dec 7 09:56:11 2000
Name:	Sarah Potter
E-mail:	jimpotter@sprynet.com
Organization:
Location:	Ridgewood, NJ
How the site was found:	through one of your lectures
Comments:

Date:	Wed Dec 6 20:47:50 2000
Name:	Mark Powell
E-mail:	markpowell@rcn.com
Organization:	Lexington Montessori School
Location:	Lexington MA
How the site was found:	reference from workshop
Comments:	Thanks for a thought provoking workshop.

Date:	Wed Dec 6 17:11:28 2000
Name:	Steven Byers
E-mail:	smbyers@aol.com
Organization:	None
Location:	Kennewick, WA
How the site was found:	Just thought I would try www.alfiekohn.com
Comments:	I would like to let folks know that Mr. Kohn has spoken several times at the annual Deming Conference sponsored by the Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum (OQPF). These presentations were recorded on video tape and can be borrowed (free!) from the Deming Video Library. Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum P. O. Box 17754, Covington, KY 41017-0754 606-344-1698 Phone or 606-344-0280 FAX Tape Checkout: Write to Dr. Kim Melton (kmelton@ngcsu.edu) 706-867-2724 This library is a great resource. Also, I encourage anyone interested in changing a school system to start with Dr. Deming's Red Bead Experiment. His teachings about systems thinking, psychology, and variation are essential to making the most of Mr. Kohn's ideas.If you live anywhere near south central Washington state, a colleague and I would be glad to conduct the demonstration for a group of educators.

Date:	Tue Dec 5 18:22:25 2000
Name:	robert jc venegas
E-mail:	robbv@usa.net
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:	i have been reading a lot on rewards for a project, and your name arises almost everywhere
Comments:

Date:	Tue Dec 5 15:40:32 2000
Name:	Randy Larkin
E-mail:	Randy_Larkin@mail.msj.edu
Organization:	College of Mount Saint Joseph
Location:	5701 Delhi Rd.
How the site was found:	Looking for the sports site of Hughes
Comments:	I would like to say hi to all of my teachers

Date:	Tue Dec 5 14:46:46 2000
Name:	Charli Joerger
E-mail:	charlibeth2001@yahoo.com
Organization:
Location:	Davis, CA
How the site was found:	in the back of "The Schools Our Children Deserve"
Comments:	I'm really agreeing with so much of what you are saying in this book. I am a parent of a four year old and I am interested in teaching at the elementary level. Any suggestions on what schools in Northern California to seek employment at? Thank you for inspiring me with your wonderful thoughts and ideas.

Date:	Tue Dec 5 10:10:22 2000
Name:	Milton Williams
E-mail:
Organization:	Edu Major
Location:	Norristown PA
How the site was found:	Through watching Mr. Kohn on CN8
Comments:

Date:	Mon Dec 4 20:47:27 2000
Name:	Tom Setser
E-mail:	sets56@hotmail.com
Organization:	Wesley College
Location:
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Mon Dec 4 20:04:17 2000
Name:	Jim Cross
E-mail:	scurvy01@aol.com
Organization:	n/a
Location:	n/a
How the site was found:	name given to me
Comments:

Date:	Sun Dec 3 23:15:21 2000
Name:	John Dutrow
E-mail:	lundrow@erols.com
Organization:	Freestate Sport 4 All - an alternative, child-centered, active games program
Location:	Maryland
How the site was found:	Browser search
Comments:	I find your books and articles so refreshing, inspiring and thought provoking that I am going to include this web site in my parent newsletter. Thank you for all the time you put into sharing your ideas with others!

Date:	Sun Dec 3 13:53:00 2000
Name:	Gil Anderson
E-mail:	gil_anderson@hotmail.com
Organization:	Faribault Senior High
Location:	Faribault, MN
How the site was found:	friend
Comments:	I am interested in learning of schools that actively use Mr. Kohn's ideas. I am also interested in possibly trying to form a group of teachers who would work together to change the status quo.

Date:	Sun Dec 3 13:20:22 2000
Name:	GIL ANDERSON
E-mail:	gil_anderson@hotmail.com
Organization:	Faribault High School
Location:	Faribault, Minnesota
How the site was found:	A friend mentioned Mr. Kohn to me; I thought I'd check it out.
Comments:	Well, from the excerpts I've read, Mr. Kohn seems to have everything right. How does one begin to overcome the profound inertia that affects public education and begin to change these places? I guess the deep irony in all of this is that most everything that has been done is the opposite of what should be done.

Date:	Sat Dec 2 22:08:57 2000
Name:	James M. Rafferty
E-mail:	jraff@raex.com
Organization:	ontasc
Location:	younstown, ohio
How the site was found:	teachers.net
Comments:	Mr. Kohn::I have developed a workshop for the schools of Ohio dealing with the desirable features of schools and school building. It has been very well received. I would like you to see it.I do workshops on classroom techniques and time management.I also teacher at YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY--I am a retired teacher--thanks Raff

Date:	Sat Dec 2 22:00:57 2000
Name:	James M. Rafferty
E-mail:	jraff.raex.com
Organization:	Ohio network training assistance school community
Location:	youngstown, ohio
How the site was found:	viewing teachers.net
Comments:	Mr. Kohn::I have developed a special workshop for school dealing with the desirable features of a school and school building. I would like to show you this.I just inserviced Cleveland , Ohio school --they love your concept. I speak all over the state for ONTASC on classroom techniques and time management.

Date:	Fri Dec 1 20:09:18 2000
Name:	Art Gregory
E-mail:	agreg33@aol
Organization:	Far Hills Country Day School
Location:	P.O. Box 8 Far Hills, NJ 07931
How the site was found:	You mentioned it today
Comments:	Attended your talk today in Madison and thoroughly enjoyed it. I had read several of your books and articles and was so glad to have had the opportunity to hear you in person. Thank you for an inspiring morning.

Date:	Fri Dec 1 20:03:00 2000
Name:	Art Gregory
E-mail:	agreg33@aol
Organization:	Far Hills Country
Location:
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Thu Nov 30 23:52:57 2000
Name:	Roseanna Gonzales
E-mail:	rosieg007@aol.com
Organization:	Pendergast School District
Location:	Phoenix, Arizona
How the site was found:	AZ Standards egroup
Comments:	Trying to stand up for children's & parents' rights in Arizona amidst an educator's worse political nightmare. Our latest news today... SAT-9 for first graders! What are the legislators thinking?!

Date:	Thu Nov 30 18:20:53 2000
Name:	Don White
E-mail:	tradon@acay.com.au
Organization:	Retired Principal
Location:	Sydney
How the site was found:	A friend
Comments:	I have long admired Alfie Kohn's writings and love to use references to them as "hand grenades" in presentations I do. It sure shakes the shibboleths. Keep writing! Don White

Date:	Thu Nov 30 18:20:41 2000
Name:	Don White
E-mail:	tradon@acay.com.au
Organization:	Retired Principal
Location:	Sydney
How the site was found:	A friend
Comments:	I have long admired Alfie Kohn's writings and love to use references to them as "hand grenades" in presentations I do. It sure shakes the shibboleths. Keep writing! Don White

Date:	Thu Nov 30 12:17:23 2000
Name:	Bill Wright
E-mail:	wwright@novagate.com
Organization:	Jolman Elementary School
Location:	Muskegon, Michigan
How the site was found:	on back cover of your latest book
Comments:	I want to know how to become involved in an organization advocating an end to the standardized testing frenzy.

Date:	Tue Nov 28 09:17:19 2000
Name:	Marge Adams
E-mail:	jorie6568
Organization:
Location:	Maine
How the site was found:
Comments:	I have read and own both Punished by Rewards and The Schools our Children Deserve. I am the mother of four children 3-9 years old and am very concerned with what has happened to them in public schools. They are very intelligent and used to be very curious, eager and anxious to learn. We still do a lot of cool "learning stuff" at home although they no longer perceive it as learning. School has taught them that learning is boring and hard. For them school is about competitive and "social"--though the kind of socialization they are exposed to sometimes make me cringe. I think many of the teachers mean well, but they just have it all wrong. I have taken The Schools our Children Deserve to my children's teachers and asked them to please, please read it and some of them have. Some even agree with the principle it espouses but have no hope that it could be implemented within our school system. What are we to do? Homeschool our children? But what about the rest of the kids--not just mine? How do we change this attitude of ur schools?

Date:	Mon Nov 27 18:23:35 2000
Name:	Deirdre Fennessy
E-mail:	dfennessy@whitbyschool.org
Organization:	Whitby School (Montessori)
Location:	Greenwich, CT
How the site was found:	Kris Brie
Comments:	I heard your talk at Stamford, CT. recently. Montessori teachers throughout rewards and punishments long ago, but in this day and age need strong affirmation. I would love to have you speak to our parents and teachers? Email me please.

Date:	Mon Nov 27 11:02:15 2000
Name:	Nancy Sheffield
E-mail:	sheffny@mail.bay.k12.fl.us
Organization:	Association of Bay County Educators
Location:	Panama City, FL
How the site was found:	Fellow teacher had an audio tape from ASCD
Comments:	A high school teacher and Association president trying to bring saniety to the FLorida FCAT/school grading fiasco

Date:	Sun Nov 26 10:13:04 2000
Name:	Dr. and Mrs.(Ina) Edward Loftspring
E-mail:	eeiz@fuse.net
Organization:	self
Location:	Cincinnati Ohio
How the site was found:	friend
Comments:	Our son Drew has ADD?. He is getting very poor grades in school and has a poor self image. He thinks he has to be the class clown in school. At one time he was a competitive swimmer, but at this time he has given up a lot of physcical activity. He likes to play the gituar,drums and the piano and enjoys many types of music. He is now seeing a psychiatrist who works with ADD children. Drew seems relatre well with the doctor but is still not motivated in school. WE have tried no medication as of now. The psychiatrist is having us look into boarding schools because he feels that by removing Drew from the expectations that we as parents expect along with the schools expectations he may do better. He is presently in aprivate school.Any suggestion you have would be appreciated. Thank you. Ina and ED

Date:	Sat Nov 25 11:45:43 2000
Name:	Janet Drake
E-mail:	hall-draker@rcn.com
Organization:	66 Linda Ave
Location:	Framingham, MA 01701
How the site was found:	I learned about it from a teacher at Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School at workshop in Framingham
Comments:	I want to read all of your site information. And I hope that more of the facts you present can be presented in popular publications.

Date:	Tue Nov 7 14:07:08 2000
Name:	Diane Longfield
E-mail:	_d/bhs@dns.u46k12.il.us
Organization:	School District U-46
Location:	Elgin, Illinois
How the site was found:	Read Kohn's book: The Case Against Standardized Testing
Comments:	wonderful, eye opening message. We are in the throws of testing.

Date:	Mon Nov 6 19:31:03 2000
Name:	Sharon Buzzelli
E-mail:	sbuzzelli@home.com
Organization:	Halton catholic
Location:	Burlington
How the site was found:	Concerned Citizens
Comments:

Date:	Mon Nov 6 18:14:23 2000
Name:	Gary Reid
E-mail:	cgreid@attcanada.ca
Organization:	High School Teacher
Location:	Sutton Ontario Canada
How the site was found:	I just entered your URL and there it was!!!
Comments:	Educational reform!! What are we re-forming? One gets the impression after a while that this whole process is geared to making a lot of people, who profess themselves to be experts, a lot of money and a lot of adulation [temporary, though it may be]!!

Date:	Mon Nov 6 00:56:21 2000
Name:	David B. Nicol
E-mail:	nicold@earthlink.net
Organization:	Albuquerque Public Schools
Location:
How the site was found:	Research for graduate program research paper
Comments:	I am surprised and amazed by the logic and sanity of your worldview, etc. I have never read anyone who I so wholeheartedly agree with when it comes to education and rearing children. Are you from this planet? this nation? Thanks so much and keep writing.

Date:	Mon Nov 6 00:23:42 2000
Name:	Pamela Y. Greer
E-mail:	p-greer@uiuc.edu
Organization:	Edpsy 316 class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location:	Urbana-Champaign
How the site was found:	surfing the web
Comments:	COMMENTS: Thanks for your past reply. After reading Oprah transcripts and excerpts from "Punishment by Rewards..." I am becomming a slight Kohn convert. 2 out of the 4 group members, I work with, are becoming believers, 1 out of 4 can't quite make up her mind and 1 out of 4 may forever be a buddy of Glasser, Cantor, Kuhnin and others. PURPOSE/PROBLEM: The group that I am working with found some great info that has helped our presentation preparation for November 8, 2000 (we moved it up a week). We even have the transcripts from two of the visits you made to the Oprah Winfrey Show. Nevertheless, I am responsible for covering your Bio. It lists the many books you have written. (Continued Success as you continue your journey of learning.) However, there is only one sentence regarding the institutions of higher learning you attended and family. QUESTIONS: Do any of your books highlight the school system you grew up in? If so, which book? If not, where were you born? Birthdate? Parents? Hometown? What was the school system like there? How long did you teach? What grade(s) did you teach? When did you begin to realize, as a student/teacher, there had to be a better way? Answers to these questions are greatly appreciated. This appears to be the better way to reach you due to your busy itinerary. Our group truly appreciates your assistance.

Date:	Sun Nov 5 13:08:29 2000
Name:	Jill
E-mail:	jrpclark@yahoo.com
Organization:	widener university
Location:	chester, pa
How the site was found:	bought Mr. Kohn's book
Comments:	I am assigned to write a book review on The Schools Our Children Deserve citing the positives and negatives. I am finding it difficult to find much with which I disagree. Kudos to Mr. Kohn...er, Guru Kohn!!

Date:	Sun Nov 5 12:51:23 2000
Name:	Paul Enright
E-mail:	jjpte@es.co.nz
Organization:	Logan Park High School
Location:	Dunedin, New Zealand
How the site was found:	Link on TKI (a New Zealand government-funded education support site)
Comments:

Date:	Sun Nov 5 12:20:52 2000
Name:	Arleen Standiford
E-mail:	standiford@zianet.com
Organization:	Alta Vista School
Location:	Carlsbad, New Mexico
How the site was found:	looked up Alfie Kohn on www.google.com
Comments:	I am a middle school teacher in the "war zone." I had no idea the schools were as bad as they were until this year. (Last year I taught music in the elemetary schools.) Your ideas are very helpful, and it is good to know that my philosophy on how children should be educated is not some crackpot idea, but that there are other like-minded people out there.

Date:	Sat Nov 4 17:28:22 2000
Name:	Brad Morley
E-mail:	brcnmor@bmts.com
Organization:	Bluewater Bd of Ed, Ontario
Location:	Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
How the site was found:	Alfie mentioned the site at a conference in Toronto.
Comments:	I cannot say enough good about how much I enjoyed and learned in the 90 min talk Alfie gave several hundred of us on Raising the Standards: Ruining the Schools. I feel empowered again, which in Ontario has not been the way many of us have been feeling lately. Thanks so much.

Date:	Sat Nov 4 17:10:20 2000
Name:	Kathleen Bagely
E-mail:	katebrisky@aol.com
Organization:
Location:	utah
How the site was found:	educational leadership student at BYU
Comments:	I'd like to find some research comparing elementary schools with reward systems in place and those without...behavior, learning, climate, etc.

Date:	Fri Nov 3 18:28:17 2000
Name:	Susan Rushing
E-mail:	suziliz64@yahoo.com
Organization:	Houston Independent School District
Location:
How the site was found:	a class at the University of St. Thomas
Comments:	Mr Kohn, We need your help in Texas. They have created a new and higher standardized test, TAAS II. They predicit only 36% of our students will pass the first time.

Date:	Fri Nov 3 15:27:33 2000
Name:	Cindy and Buff Whitman-Bradley
E-mail:	buph@igc.org
Organization:	Tam District Parents
Location:	Kentfield, Marin County,CA
How the site was found:	In your book The Case Against....
Comments:	As former teachers and parents of a highschool junior we have been adamantly opposed to standardized testing for years. Currently our H.S. District uses the STAR test as one of its graduation requirements. We have exempted our son from taking the STAR for years. Now we have joined other parents concerned with testing as just one issue that causes stress in children. Our family is also considering a suit against the district to challenge using a norm-referenced test as a graduation requirement. We need lots of help and support. I (Cindy) heard Alfie Kohn speak about six years ago at a conference on assessment in Oakland. It was a relief to hear someone make some sense! Can we get him here to educate the community?

Date:	Fri Nov 3 13:35:45 2000
Name:	alberta nozie
E-mail:	anozie@gch.gmcs.k12.nm.us
Organization:	Gallup Mckinley County Schools
Location:	Gallup, New Mexico
How the site was found:	article from ASCD magazine
Comments:

Date:	Thu Nov 2 14:16:34 2000
Name:	Brigid Visconti
E-mail:	MBGV3@aol.com
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Thu Nov 2 01:07:38 2000
Name:	Laura Grattan
E-mail:	grattan@surfnetusa.com
Organization:	Self
Location:	Santa Cruz, CA
How the site was found:	Punished by Rewards
Comments:	Thank you for your wonderful work. I left my part time job as a Speech-Language Pathologist for a private practice three years ago to be a full-time mom to my two children. I was thinking I may not go back to doing a job where I felt I was coercing children to work on skills they weren't interested in so that they could be successful in classrooms where their real needs were not respected. Now I'm thinking I can be a force for change in that same job. Thanks for the inspiration. (P.S. I just removed my son from "the best public school - i.e. highest test scores - in Santa Cruz" because of the appallingly oppressive "behavior management" system the kindergarten teacher employs. In only seven weeks in this classroom, my son's joy of learning was squelched. He'll be going back to the little private school he went to last year where they must have studied your books! No grades, no tests, no token systems of any kind. Lots of love, and tons of enthusiastic learning!)

Date:	Wed Nov 1 22:15:53 2000
Name:	Mike Mullowney
E-mail:	mullowney@absarokee.k12.mt.us
Organization:	Absarokee High School
Location:	Absarokee, Mt.
How the site was found:	Attended the NWREL in Portland
Comments:	Really enjoyed your address at the Convention in Portland. Looking forward to reading and listening to more. You either set Education back 100 years or woke up a lot of self-appointed educational experts. Good Job!

Date:	Wed Nov 1 20:52:20 2000
Name:	Inez A. Walker
E-mail:	iawalker@execpc.com
Organization:	Milwaukee Public Schools
Location:	Silver Spring
How the site was found:	internet search for your books
Comments:	Thanks for confirmation on what I had "suspected all along". A teacher in Wisconsin

Date:	Wed Nov 1 18:05:05 2000
Name:	Linda Inlay
E-mail:	lindlay@aol.com
Organization:	The River School
Location:	2447 Old Sonoma Road, Napa, CA 94558
How the site was found:	Read your books; attended Vancouver conference
Comments:	Dear Mr. Kohn: I attended the "Hearts and Minds" conference and heard your impassioned case against the current use of standardized testing and its negative impact on human beings (both teachers and students). I was the one who asked what politicians and media persons are not responding to the vast amount of research that you have collected against the way that standardized testing is being used. I've come to the conclusion that the general public needs to informed, specifically, parents who can speak against the use of these tests. I am doing a presentation at the Charter Schools National Conference in December. My topic is "The HIdden Curriculum: How School Culture Affects Standardized Testing." Our school focuses on both the explicit curriculum of reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic as well as the implicit curriculum of values and assumptions that permeate the culture and manifest itself through the organizational structures of school such as governance and discipline; and through the way parents, teachers, and students relate with one another. We work hard to align the explicit vision/mission of a school and the implicit messages that get communicated. Although my topic is focusing on the broader context of school culture, I hope to get some of your message out through this presentation because there are certainly a lot of implicit messages being communicated through the emphasis on standardized tests that probably conflict with the explicit mission statements of schools. Very few schools have a mission statement that limits itself to doing well on standardized tests. Are you organizing schools and/or individuals to stem the tide of this kind of accountability/use of testing? I would like to help out if I might. Also, if you have a particular emphasis of your message that might be suited for my presentation, I welcome your input. Linda Inlay

Date:	Wed Nov 1 16:58:53 2000
Name:	Meric-Vance (Rick) Neuenfeldt
E-mail:	mneuenfeldt@depere.k12.wi.us
Organization:	U.S.D. De Pere
Location:	De Pere, WI
How the site was found:	Attended Presentation By Mr.Kohn
Comments:	Thanks for providing a very necessary alternative perspective on the standards movement. I continue to be glad that people like Faulkner, Stravinsky, DuChamp, and Cocteau were never "standardized".

Date:	Wed Nov 1 02:18:02 2000
Name:	Pamela Y. Greer
E-mail:	p-greer@uiuc.edu
Organization:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location:	Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
How the site was found:	web-surfing for a class in Discipline for Children (Edpsy 316)
Comments:	I would enjoy seeing footage of your methods on video tape (observations which triggered your theory). It would be extremely helpful for our class project.

Date:	Tue Oct 31 22:27:04 2000
Name:	Miriam Dreisinger
E-mail:	mdbronx@worldnet.att.net
Organization:	Westchester Day School
Location:	Mamaroneck
How the site was found:	Listened to audio tape on standardized testing
Comments:	There is nothing more optimistic than the belief that people can hear one another and respond with generosity of spirit, as well as giving new concepts a chance to breathe.

Date:	Tue Oct 31 09:16:38 2000
Name:	Patricia Robertson
E-mail:	delrobertson@charter.net
Organization:	Cosby Elementary School
Location:	Newport, Tennessee
How the site was found:	search
Comments:

Date:	Mon Oct 30 16:43:26 2000
Name:	George Rivera
E-mail:	georivera6to6@yahoo.com
Organization:	Harmonium Children Services, Afterschool Program
Location:	Saan Diego CA
How the site was found:	Back cover of Beyond Discipline
Comments:	Is your San Diego Visit open to any educator?

Date:	Mon Oct 30 11:13:03 2000
Name:	Dina
E-mail:	elsa22@aol.com
Organization:
Location:	Texas
How the site was found:	The book "The Schools our Children Deserve"
Comments:	Even before reading this book, I was a supporter of progressive education. I'm a graduate student from Bank Street College in NYC (a college for teachers that stresses progressive ed.) Now after reading the book, I am even more appalled at the whole idea of traditional education, rewards vs. true learning, testing, etc. This book has really made me look at everything in a whole other light. It is making me question everything I hear. When people say the schools are horrible near me, does that mean the schools are truly bad or does it mean their test scores are low? OR does it simply mean the schools are too progressive for the general public? When the presidential candidates say they're working for education, what do they really mean? Do they care if the children really understand the material? This book has made me angry. And this anger is a motivation to get more involved...to help make a change.

Date:	Sun Oct 29 22:57:21 2000
Name:	Sandra Aikin
E-mail:	sandra.aikin@nzei.org.nz
Organization:	New Zealand Educational Institute
Location:	New Zealand
How the site was found:	By good luck
Comments:	Alfie Kohn's work has provided considerable insights into teachers' work.

Date:	Sun Oct 29 22:20:27 2000
Name:	Gloria Jones
E-mail:	glor1a@uswest.net
Organization:	student
Location:	Glendale Arizona
How the site was found:	I'm doing research on "Rewards, Assessments and Learning"
Comments:	I am doing a research paper on "Rewards, Assessments and Learning" for children K-3. Any video or audio tapes available of Alfie Kohn in the Phoenix metro area?

Date:	Sun Oct 29 07:14:32 2000
Name:	Sue
E-mail:	snmisenheimer@yahoo.com
Organization:
Location:	Michigan
How the site was found:	rgibson/pipline
Comments:	am so grateful parents and educators are attempting to correct education's downward spiral. That our children became pawns in education politics is so criminal. As a resident of Michigan, I can safely say our children suffered at the hands of a so-called "education governor" that put political aspirations ahead of the needs of children. My best to you, your endeavors, and take comfort in knowing that there are others that know, care, and are willing to make a difference. WE HAVE TO!

Date:	Sun Oct 29 01:05:28 2000
Name:	Cathy
E-mail:	Aloha@koacoffee.com
Organization:
Location:	Kona, HI
How the site was found:	In your book
Comments:	Wow, what a great book! It sounds a lot like a Waldorf school. I love the fact that my son does not get grades and that he loves to learn!

Date:	Sat Oct 28 12:27:25 2000
Name:	Merri Greenia
E-mail:	mag5449@aol.com
Organization:	Wolcott Elementary School
Location:	Wolcott, Vermont
How the site was found:	ASCD conference
Comments:	I enjoyed Mr. Kohn's presentation at the ASCD conference in Tampa, and I am curious to learn more about testing and brain based educational practice.

Date:	Fri Oct 27 16:43:48 2000
Name:	David Feikes
E-mail:	feikesd@purduenc.edu
Organization:	Purdue University North Central
Location:	Indiana
How the site was found:	searching for oppostion to standardized testing
Comments:	I am working on a talk on the problems with standardized testing for the ICTM Conference in Indianapolis next week. Keep up the good work.

Date:	Fri Oct 27 14:46:59 2000
Name:	julie ann
E-mail:	julieann@chorus.net
Organization:	home-school
Location:	southern wi
How the site was found:	i love you and looked you up
Comments:	i have missed you these last few years at the wi fall teachers convention, weac. how about teaching a course for credit this summer in madison, wi??? the path of education is Frightening. what can we do?

Date:	Fri Oct 27 13:57:57 2000
Name:	Jayme Leyba
E-mail:	jaymeleyba@yahoo.com
Organization:	uintah school district
Location:	Roosevelt, Utah
How the site was found:	ERIC Digest
Comments:	Alfie Kohn fails to mention, in "The Risks of Rewards", how often the rewards were being given. I understand that rewarding each time is not effective in changing behavior, but what about random rewarding? Do you think the outcome will be the same? I feel strongly that it's how you use the rewards and rewarding is OK. Please respond.

Date:	Fri Oct 27 00:52:18 2000
Name:	Cathy
E-mail:	cathystritt@cs.com
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:	heard about it
Comments:	What are Alfie Kohn's credentials. I didn't see them listed on the "Biography" page. Also, what research supports his findings/opinions? I haven't read any of his books, just things on his web site and I don't see any reference to the actual studies or statistics that back up his theories. We live in a competitive world whether we like it or not. I don't understand what is wrong with recognizing children who do well. How do we determine benchmarks over time with our children to see trends in education. How do we determine if they are learning the body of knowledge they need to survive in our world?

Date:	Thu Oct 26 19:03:25 2000
Name:	George Rivera
E-mail:	georivera6to6@yahoo.com
Organization:	6 To 6 After School Program
Location:	San Diego, CA
How the site was found:	Looked you up after reading Beyond Discipline
Comments:

Date:	Thu Oct 26 19:02:18 2000
Name:	George Rivera
E-mail:	georivera6to6@yahoo.com
Organization:	6 To 6 After School Program
Location:	San Diego, CA
How the site was found:	Looked you up after reading Beyond Discipline
Comments:

Date:	Thu Oct 26 18:07:13 2000
Name:	Paul Alper
E-mail:	p9alper@msn.com
Organization:
Location:	St. Paul, MN
How the site was found:	I heard about you in the Nation
Comments:	I am a retired teacher of statistics with an interest in the SAT. I took a SAT coaching class ($999) along with my high school daughter. I take the SAT on Nov. 4th. Contact me if you wish to see just how bad the college gatekeeping standardized test can be. For example, avoid algebra on an algebra question and do NOT read the passage on the so-called "critical reading" section.

Date:	Wed Oct 25 22:52:06 2000
Name:	Lois Y. Gore
E-mail:	lois.gore@lakesideschool.org
Organization:	Lakeside Middle School
Location:	Seattle, WA.
How the site was found:	heard Alfie Kohn speak
Comments:	You are an inspiration to me as an educator and a Mom. Thank you, Alfie.

Date:	Wed Oct 25 16:56:01 2000
Name:	Glen Miller
E-mail:	gmiller@kiel.k12.wi.us
Organization:	Kiel Area School District
Location:	Kiel, Wisconsin
How the site was found:	Alfie mentioned at WASCD on 10/20/00
Comments:

Date:	Wed Oct 25 16:18:51 2000
Name:	Carla Cherry
E-mail:	ccherry@khsd.k12.ca.us
Organization:	Kern High School District
Location:	Bakersfield, CA
How the site was found:	From keynote speech
Comments:	I heard you speak at the ASCD Conference in Tampa and was extremely impressed and energized. I have been saying so many of the same things to my colleagues, but no one seems to listen due to the politicization of the entire movement. Thanks for being a strong voice in the wilderness.

Date:	Wed Oct 25 11:12:55 2000
Name:	Dave Gluch
E-mail:	gluchd@lancaster.k12.wi.us
Organization:	Winskill Elementary School
Location:	Lancaster, WI
How the site was found:	Alfie told me about it.
Comments:	Just heard Alfie speak at a conference I attended last week in Appleton, WI. I really appreciated his insight on the issue of standardized testing. I have battled that issue internally and externally. Alfie helped me confirm my beliefs. Thanks Alfie!!!

Date:	Wed Oct 25 06:34:51 2000
Name:	howard kaplan
E-mail:	vandh@rcn.com
Organization:	carrier clinic - east mountain school
Location:	belle mead, nj 08502
How the site was found:	i heard him speak at the ascd conference 10/00
Comments:

Date:	Wed Oct 25 06:33:51 2000
Name:	howard kaplan
E-mail:	vandh@rcn.com
Organization:	carrier clinic - east mountain school
Location:	belle mead, nj 08502
How the site was found:	i heard him speak at the ascd conference 10/00
Comments:

Date:	Tue Oct 24 21:57:37 2000
Name:	Ruth Schrichte
E-mail:	ruth_schrichte@hotmail.com
Organization:
Location:	Erie, Colorado
How the site was found:	Web search
Comments:	The time has truly come to do something about this nonsense! Teaching is no longer about what's right for kids!

Date:	Tue Oct 24 16:13:13 2000
Name:	Daren Catlin
E-mail:	mailto:sudarcat@juno.com%20%20or%20%20catlin@prms.maps.k12.wi.us
Organization:	7th Gr. Math Teacher -- Prairie River Middle School
Location:	Merrill, WI 54452
How the site was found:	Attended WASCD conference at which you spoke
Comments:	I thought I was one of only a handful of teachers that felt this way about standardized tests. To hear you talk and give the data and research about what I have felt all along was truly satisfying. I am now trying to turn some ears "our" direction in my district. Thanks for representing and standing up for the teachers of the world.

Date:	Mon Oct 23 22:08:22 2000
Name:	Tina Wilson
E-mail:	tgwilson@ria.net
Organization:	ASC Student Chapter of CEC
Location:	Bristol, CO
How the site was found:	I viewed the tape, "Beyond the Standards Movement" provided by professor, Dr. Jacque Phillips/ASC.
Comments:	Thank you for helping me to realize the reality of standards and how to implement a more "learning" conducive classroom! I am encouraged by many of your articles and am working towards making change a reality for my special needs students!

Date:	Mon Oct 23 18:55:26 2000
Name:	Patricia M. McHatton
E-mail:	mchatton@typhoon.coedu.usf.edu
Organization:	T. E. Weightman Middle School
Location:	Wesley Chape
How the site was found:	Heard Mr. Kohn speak at USF
Comments:	I agree wholeheartedly with your thoughts on political activism necessary by teachers today. It is definitely time to stop complaining and start doing.

Date:	Mon Oct 23 18:00:34 2000
Name:	Kathy Olson
E-mail:	kolson@edgerton.k12.wi.us
Organization:	Yahara Elementary School
Location:	Wisconsin
How the site was found:	From information in book
Comments:	Thanks for your work regarding standardized testing and its effects on quality education. I'm very concerned with the direction we find ourselves going. Could this be the work of the publishing companies???

Date:	Mon Oct 23 12:54:57 2000
Name:	Michael Johnson, Ph.D.
E-mail:	johnsonm@apple.com
Organization:	Apple Computer, Inc.
Location:	Phoneix and Western US
How the site was found:	Mailer from Heinemann Publishing
Comments:	What is so frustrating, unbelieveable, and frieghtening is that so many seemingly well-meaning people can be sooo wrong... No one is asking the right questions about how our society and work lives have changed and how our education system just don't match today's reality. Instead, THEY want to return us to what didn't work for most of them. Go figure.

Date:	Mon Oct 23 10:59:10 2000
Name:	Jim Plog
E-mail:	jplog@nwtc.tec.wi.us
Organization:	Northeasy Wisconsin Technical College
Location:	Green Bay , Wisconsin 54307
How the site was found:	Hearing you speak @ UW-Green Bay
Comments:	Found your presentation fascinating.The follow-up session the next day was permeated with creativity and thinking out of the box.Please continue your efforts to help the learning community realize the importance of providing authentic learning in a manner that allows all learners to have the confidence that it willl take to deal with an ever changing society.

Date:	Mon Oct 23 09:00:57 2000
Name:	Maureen Ferriter
E-mail:	PSMaureen@aol.com
Organization:	teacher
Location:	Palm Springs, Ca.
How the site was found:	Great!
Comments:	Been a fan for years. Share your thinking about competition in our schools.

Date:	Mon Oct 23 00:36:46 2000
Name:	Bill Patterson
E-mail:	boppabull@aol.com
Organization:	Tualatin High School - Social Studies Dept.
Location:	Tualatin, Or.
How the site was found:	alfie kohn search
Comments:	There are two high schools in our district (Tigard-Tualatin School District 23j). Both Social Studies departments will be meeting in December to discuss alternative assessment in the Social Studies. Presently, despite the intent to create a standardized Social Studies test by 2003, the state Department of Education is in a state of dissaray in terms of creating a Social Studies standardized test. Seemingly, a vacuum exists and our two Social Studies departments would like to propose to the state "our" plan. Do you have suggestions or ideas for us to go on. If there are other districts throughout the nation that are taking "guerrilla" action please let us know what steps they are taking to localize the decision making process and restore learning, as opposed to teaching to a test. We are certainly in favor of meaningful assessment and accountability, but the top-down, standardized approach is ludicrous. Thanks, Bill Patterson

Date:	Mon Oct 23 00:09:09 2000
Name:	Edith Lueke
E-mail:	elueke1@roch.uswest.net
Organization:
Location:	Rochester, MN
How the site was found:	I specifically looked for it, by typing in its URL.
Comments:	How do you find time for your daughter, with a schedule like yours? I look forward to your lecture at Winona in January. Your books are the kind I reread several times.

Date:	Sun Oct 22 23:53:10 2000
Name:	Bonnie Bilcox
E-mail:	bilcoxgb@cadvision.com
Organization:	Calgary Board of Education
Location:	Calgary AB
How the site was found:	Alta Vista Search
Comments:	Dear Mr. Kohn, Your presentation at the "Hearts and Minds" conference was inspirational. Your words have renewed my commitment to voice my concerns regarding provincial testing that inhibits and restricts teaching and learning. Hope to hear you again soon.

Date:	Sun Oct 22 20:56:00 2000
Name:	Sims Corbett
E-mail:	scorbett01@gw.hamline.edu
Organization:	student
Location:	St. Paul, Minnesota
How the site was found:	The Schools Our Children Deserve
Comments:	What are your feelings about ADD/ADHD and do you have any opinions about best pedagogy for these students?

Date:	Sun Oct 22 08:41:09 2000
Name:	ares wang
E-mail:	vjeanoo@yahoo.com
Organization:	USST
Location:	Shanghai,P.R.China
How the site was found:	search on web
Comments:	I am searching information about Change Management.

Date:	Sat Oct 21 15:32:12 2000
Name:	janese cederborg
E-mail:	jnwalt@earthlink.net
Organization:
Location:	San Leandro
How the site was found:	Punished by Rewards
Comments:	I recently left the field of teaching. One reason was because of this new star testing. The whole system is becoming more frightening but people, yes even some teachers hop on board because they realize adjustments are in order and don't know what else to do. I truely believe your philosophies are right on, for lack of a better term. More people: teachers, administrtors, parents, basically everyone, needs to hear these philosophies. It is more than a shame, they are not more wide-spread. I agree with the gentleman below that people need to "hear the message". Even though I have left the educational arena, it is temporary. In the meantime, I need to find a way to support and strengthen myself and other individuals with this same philosophy. There is a lot at stake. How can one get more involved? Any suggestions?

Date:	Sat Oct 21 12:20:03 2000
Name:	Joan Hayden
E-mail:	jkhay@juno.com
Organization:	Three Rivers Montessori School
Location:	Fort Wayne, Indiana
How the site was found:	"Punished by Rewards" book cover
Comments:	I am one of the Directors of a Montessori school, currently enrolling children ages 18 months through 3rd grade. I am interested in hearing how other Montessorians implement Mr. Kohn's ideas in classrooms and for parent education. I certainly see many parallels in philosophy!

Date:	Fri Oct 20 22:36:06 2000
Name:	Paul Wheeler
E-mail:	mrflywhiteguy@hotmail.com
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:	Searching for references
Comments:	I believe that Kohn has failed to see the need for some sort of reward system and that I believe that there needs to be some sort of balance between all rewards and no rewards. True there does have to be a lot intrinsic motivation but there needs to be at least some kind of reward system. It didn't work in Communism, why would it work with anything else?

Date:	Fri Oct 20 17:41:29 2000
Name:	Dave Picard
E-mail:	mailto:treehugr@netnet.net%20%20%20%20or%20%20%20%20%20picade09@uwgb.edu
Organization:
Location:	Green Bay WI
How the site was found:	UWGB Lecture
Comments:	Bravo! You were little soft on our Governor! To think he may consider running for president is appalling. Thank you so much for your insightful talk. As a future educator, I assure you, this movement will continue where ever I find opportunity. One question/observation: Since industry has chisled away at complex tasks and made them so simplistic that a chimp can now run an insurance company, will the capitalist machine be able to accomodate intellectual thinkers? Again, thanks so much for your motivation. People need to hear the message!!!

Date:	Fri Oct 20 17:18:44 2000
Name:	Anne Rumps
E-mail:	ARumps@tusd.k12.az.us
Organization:	Tucson Unified School District
Location:	102 N. Plumer,Tucson Arizona 85719
How the site was found:
Comments:	Alfie, We need your social security # or a business # in order to process a P.O. to pay you for your visit to Tucson. Could you please send us this information over the phone or by e-mail? Thank you. Anne Rumps

Date:	Fri Oct 20 13:11:38 2000
Name:	Jennifer Lockhart McHugh
E-mail:	jenlockhart@earthlink.net
Organization:	Atlantic City High School
Location:	New Jersey
How the site was found:	tape
Comments:	I'd like to know who I can contact in my state to organize against the high stakes testing movement. The tape indicated that this was one way to find out about educators who wish to do this.

Date:	Thu Oct 19 22:05:59 2000
Name:	Mike Churchill
E-mail:	churmj27@uwgb.edu
Organization:	University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Location:	Green Bay, WI
How the site was found:	From speech given
Comments:	I saw your speech at UW-Green Bay. Well done! Finally, somebody who adresses the real issues in education.

Date:	Thu Oct 19 17:44:16 2000
Name:	Martha Christensen
E-mail:	christensenm@kalc.kfalls.k12.or.us
Organization:	Klamath Falls City School District
Location:	Klamath Falls, OR 97603
How the site was found:	back of book The Schools Our Children Deserve
Comments:

Date:	Wed Oct 18 23:38:12 2000
Name:	Leslie Anne Bernad
E-mail:	Lesliianne@aol.com
Organization:	Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County
Location:	Ft. Lauderdale,Florida
How the site was found:	Anti- Violence Network (pavnet)
Comments:	I just revceived an email with a article that was published in the American School Board Journal titled " Constant Frustration and Occasional Violence: The Legacy of American High Schools". What a terrific article, (I couldn't have said it better myself). There was a link to this site and had to check it out, please forward any information you wish to my email address above. I work with thousands of disadvantaged and neglected children in my community and feel that Education and Violence Prevention/Conflict Resolution go hand in hand these days. I'm working hard for these kids and need all the resources and help I can get!!!

Date:	Wed Oct 18 21:19:16 2000
Name:	Mary Kelson
E-mail:	marykelson@hotmail.com
Organization:	Catholic School Teacher
Location:	Adelaide South Australia, Australia
How the site was found:	Through a tape of a lecture
Comments:	I'll be gathering info, resources and places and writing articles for our school newsletter...a few books for the library...I enjoyed the clear articulation of my frustrations and instincts MaryK

Date:	Wed Oct 18 20:39:48 2000
Name:	Sharon Hopper
E-mail:	sharonhopper@email.com
Organization:	Brookwood Forest Elementary
Location:	Birmingham, AL
How the site was found:	Last years NCTE convention in Denver
Comments:	The new book (Standardized Testing) is great! Keep it up!

Date:	Wed Oct 18 15:13:53 2000
Name:	Virginia Rhodes
E-mail:	ginger@queencity.com
Organization:	Cincinnati Public Schools
Location:	Hughes Center High School
How the site was found:	guessed!
Comments:	Hi, Alfie, really enjoyed your remarks at a recent Co-nect conference in Boston. Just browsing your site for ammo in a debate on standardized testing I'm involved in here....Thank you for your work.

Date:	Wed Oct 18 02:53:53 2000
Name:	Dr. Georg Lind, Professor of Psychology
E-mail:	georg.lind@uni-konstanz.de
Organization:	University of Konstanz, Germany
Location:	Konstanz, Germany
How the site was found:
Comments:	After Second World War, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower became worried about the "military industrial complex" which, since no longer needed, developed needs of its own, and drove the US and its allies into the arms race with Russia. Nowadays, we seem to have a similar problem with the "testing industrial complex", which has also developed needs of its own, driving the schools and the national educational systems against each other into some new form of arms race. Your publications, Alfie, make this problem very transparent, and hopefully help to overcome it soon. We need to focus on learning and not on competing. Competition may be used like a medicine: small dosis can help in the teaching process, large dosis will kill.

Date:	Tue Oct 17 19:45:59 2000
Name:	Steven D. Hill
E-mail:	hillsteven_d@hotmail.com
Organization:	Berne Union Local Schools
Location:	Sugar Grove Ohio
How the site was found:	IDE workshop at Ohio University
Comments:	I received some great information on your organization from the Democracy in Education workshop at Ohio University.

Date:	Tue Oct 17 16:44:57 2000
Name:	Rebecca L. Duncan
E-mail:	rduncan@bend.k12.or.us
Organization:	Bend-LaPine Public Schools
Location:	Oregon
How the site was found:	looked in books
Comments:	Do you have a mailing list? I think I would like to be on it. I read "Punished by Rewards" three years ago, and "The Schools Our Children Deserve" earlier this year when it came out. I also had the great opportunity to hear Alfie speak in Portland this past week. What an impact -- keep this information coming. Things are getting crazy here!

Date:	Tue Oct 17 14:42:21 2000
Name:	Dr. Judith Hetzel
E-mail:	jhetzel@apu.edu
Organization:	Azusa Pacific University
Location:	Azusa, CA
How the site was found:	Yahoo search
Comments:	Thank you for your website and the information on it. It was easy to access and read.

Date:	Mon Oct 16 19:11:57 2000
Name:	John Mutschler
E-mail:	mutschle@mhasd.k12.wi.us
Organization:	Mount Horeb Area School District
Location:	Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
How the site was found:	The Case Against Standardized Testing...
Comments:	Enjoyed your book - there were many times while reading it that I could hear myself telling others exactly what I was reading - your book summerizes my philosohpy regarding the entire "standards" movement better than anything else I have read. I thank you... If you are ever in the Madison, WI area I would love you to look up my school - I would love to have you visit and share a conversation. Keep up the good fight!

Date:	Sun Oct 15 19:21:51 2000
Name:	Sarah McGlothlin
E-mail:	srmcglothlin@gva.net
Organization:	Narrows High School
Location:	Narrows, Virginia 24124
How the site was found:	e-mail address from one of your articles
Comments:	I was so pleased when I read your article on tougher standards. I kept finding myself highlighting and starring your words. It gave me such inspiration to know that someone else agreed with me on this issue. I teach special education in Virginia, and I deal with the SOL's. You letter really hit how I feel about what they do to the children I teach. Thank you so much, Sarah McGlothlin

Date:	Sat Oct 14 02:55:09 2000
Name:	cynthia willmarth
E-mail:	pueo69@hotmail.com
Organization:	Seagull School at Mauna Lani
Location:	Kohala Coast, Hawaii
How the site was found:	I searched for it
Comments:	I am dedicated to spreading Alfie's messages to all people who work with young children....they just make sense! It is my hope that one day everyone can see the harm that both punishement and rewards do, especially when you apply them to education/learning. GO Alfie!

Date:	Sat Oct 14 02:33:24 2000
Name:	Dan Seim
E-mail:	sandeim@aol.com
Organization:	Forest Hills Lutheran School
Location:	Cornelius, Oregon
How the site was found:	conference
Comments:	Six members of our faculty attended today's workshop here in Portland. We committed ourselves to bringing some incremental changes to the way in which we operate our classrooms and our school. Some will be implemented on Monday morning. Others will happen over the next year. Thanks for showing us that there can be a more child-centered approach to learning.

Date:	Fri Oct 13 20:21:35 2000
Name:	Art Pelletier
E-mail:	ajpell@email.com
Organization:	NH House of Representatives
Location:	Concord, NH
How the site was found:	Through FairTest website
Comments:	Talked to you earlier this year about coming to legislature to speak on issue of testing and other things; sorry it didn't seem to work out; seems we had a bit of a distraction with our Supreme Court. Will try again if I'm re-elected, what you have to say is vital and they need to hear it. I'm going to try to "crash" the Nov. 20th event in Andover; hope to meet you if I'm successful. Best wishes and continued success.

Date:	Fri Oct 13 01:44:59 2000
Name:	brad hatch
E-mail:	brad.hatch@mciworld.com
Organization:
Location:	nederland, colorado
How the site was found:	from latest book
Comments:	I'm a parent of a 4 year old. I have read three of your books and now I'm on the 4th. I have found all of them to be very informative. I would like to join or start an organization to promote a more progressive educational system and fight the current trend towards standardized tests and "tougher standards." Any suggestions would be appreciated. The facts and views presented in your books on education are missing in public discourse on education in Colorado. I'd like to change that if its at all possible. I'd like to get together with other like minded parents and teachers in my area to discuss our concerns and talk about what we can do about challenging the current one sided debate taking place in our state.

Date:	Fri Oct 13 01:11:53 2000
Name:	David Wilkinson
E-mail:	dwilkinsonor@earthlink.net
Organization:	Lewis and Clark
Location:	Portland Oregon
How the site was found:	Lecture
Comments:

Date:	Thu Oct 12 22:36:35 2000
Name:	sheilah cradler
E-mail:
Organization:
Location:
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Thu Oct 12 16:51:24 2000
Name:	Lisa Bralts-Kelly
E-mail:	Teachyrown@aol.com
Organization:	homeschooling parent
Location:	Illinois
How the site was found:	tried www.alfiekohn.com and got it!
Comments:	Dear Mr. Kohn: Hi. I'm a huge fan of your work, at least what I've read so far. I really enjoyed Punished By Rewards and recommend it to everyone. I'm always really surprised when I meet parents who've never read it. It should be required reading for anyone planning a career in "education". Now... my question is this: where do you stand regarding homeschooling? In your new book, there's no mention of home education, though it basically reads like a 100% endorsement of homeschooling, particularly unschooling! I sat there and wondered if you'd read any John Taylor Gatto (like youself, a former teacher), because some of your ideas are quite similar to his. I don't think homeschooling is the answer for everyone, though it is for us. My problem with getting in my son's former school's face to make changes was that by the time they implemented the changes, after years and years of arguing and fighting and polling and blah blah blah, my kids and a bunch of other ones would be high school graduates and possibly ruined by the system. No, thanks. I angered the administrators at his school many times by publicly complaining about corporate advertising in their school and their bribery programs to get kids to read, among other things. ANGERED them. And this from the "good" elementary school! I pulled my son out and we've been happily homeschooling ever since. Thanks for continuing to write such thought-provoking stuff. LB-K

Date:	Thu Oct 12 13:55:43 2000
Name:	Cindy Hynan
E-mail:	chynan@misd.net
Organization:	Macomb Intermediate School District-Rockwell Jr. High
Location:	Warren, Michigan
How the site was found:	Reading kohn books./tapes
Comments:	I am a teacher working with emotionally impaired adolescent and a parent of two junior high students. I am working hard to get the message about standardized testing out and would appreciate being kept informed of recent efforts on this behalf.

Date:	Thu Oct 12 12:21:52 2000
Name:	Keri Conkle
E-mail:	kconkle823@aol.com
Organization:
Location:	Georgia
How the site was found:
Comments:

Date:	Wed Oct 11 08:10:00 2000
Name:	Betty Silliman
E-mail:	bsilliman@cazcollege.edu
Organization:	Cazenovia College (Teacher Preparation)
Location:	Cazenovia, NY
How the site was found:	Manlius Pebble Hill website
Comments:	Everyone involved in the education of children should read Kohn's books.

Date:	Tue Oct 10 20:42:46 2000
Name:	MARY LOU SALAS
E-mail:	mlsalas_1999@yahoo.com
Organization:	none
Location:	Bayard, New Mexico
How the site was found:	fellow- teacher
Comments:	Thanks for all the information. Now we know there are others who feel as we do. What's more important It shows that there are things which we as educators can do. We must fight this madness.

Date:	Tue Oct 10 12:38:34 2000
Name:	Rob Saltzman
E-mail:	rsaltzma_99@yahoo.com
Organization:	USC Law School
Location:	Los Angeles
How the site was found:	Article in Education Week recommended by Nancy Saltzman of Colorado Springs
Comments:

Date:	Mon Oct 9 17:01:07 2000
Name:	Stacey Dudley
E-mail:	stacey413_79@yahoo.com
Organization:	student
Location:	Wisconsin
How the site was found:	Class-Task Group
Comments:	I was wondering if you could send me a list of cooperative games. We are running some in a classroom type setting with young children and I want them to get a taste of non-competitive games-thought you would have a bunch. Just email me. Thanks! Stacey

Date:	Mon Oct 9 08:38:08 2000
Name:	John Klemme
E-mail:	jklemme@scarsdaleschools.k12.ny.us
Organization:	Scarsdale High School
Location:	Scarsdale, NY
How the site was found:	Referral
Comments:	The Case Against Standardized Testing is the kind of straightforward honest analysis so necessary if we are to maintain what is truly excellent about American education. I'm planning on sharing it with others...

Date:	Mon Oct 9 04:27:47 2000
Name:	rolando m. tan
E-mail:	kenshintan@yahoo.com
Organization:	southeastern college (Philippines)
Location:	Pasay City, Philippines
How the site was found:	by chance
Comments:	I hope Mr. Alfie Kohn would visit the Philippines and spearhead a campaign just like what he is doing in the U.S. Like Mr. Kohn, I also want to make a difference in our Filipino youth as an educational researcher and private tutor and former college instructor. More power to his campaign!

Date:	Sun Oct 8 23:41:35 2000
Name:	Greg Harrington
E-mail:	gharrington@uswest.net
Organization:	Mt. Rainier High School
Location:	Seattle, WA
How the site was found:	Surfing around the web...
Comments:	Greetings! I am grateful that we are on the same side, because you present many devestating arguments against high stakes testing that I indend to take to my school district via any means possible. I serve on a so called "Secondary Education Reform" committee, that talks exclusively about how to "raise scores". I hope to expand the scope of our conversation to address much of what you raise on this site. I noticed that you are speaking in Portland on Ocotber 30th, any chance you will be in the Seattle area any time soon? Thanks again for your efforts!

Date:	Sun Oct 8 23:38:13 2000
Name:	Greg Harrington
E-mail:	gharrington@uswest.net
Organization:	Mt. Rainier High School
Location:	Seattle, WA
How the site was found:	Surfing around the web...
Comments:

Date:	Sun Oct 8 18:59:25 2000
Name:	Al Fox
E-mail:	alzfox@aol.com
Organization:	Retired Teaceher
Location:	Southren California
How the site was found:	Book: Case Against Standardized Testing
Comments:	I'm glad that I'm not the only one concerned agout "tough standards," "raising the bar," and "accountability." I've worked all over the country with teachers and I've seen how frustrated and stressed they are over doing what's right for children and preparing them to pass the "TEST."

Date:	Sun Oct 8 01:21:44 2000
Name:	Cindy Charest
E-mail:	ccharest@maine.rr.com
Organization:	none
Location:	Westbrook, ME
How the site was found:	had it already
Comments:	none

Date:	Sat Oct 7 20:59:34 2000
Name:	Theresa Parsons
E-mail:	tparsons@njcu.edu
Organization:	New Jersey City University
Location:	Jersey City, NJ
How the site was found:	On the webboard in a technology course I'm taking.
Comments:	Your articles are great. Information like this is important for parent and students alike. I'd like to see something in individual testing, using a virtual reality classroom. In fact, I'll send something out to you when I've finished this Master's.

Date:	Sat Oct 7 20:59:11 2000
Name:	Theresa Parsons
E-mail:	tparsons@njcu.edu
Organization:	New Jersey City University
Location:	Jersey City, NJ
How the site was found:	On the webboard in a technology course I'm taking.
Comments:	Your articles are great. Information like this is important for parent and students alike. I'd like to see something in individual testing, using a virtual reality classroom. In fact, I'll send something out to you when I've finished this Master's.

Date:	Sat Oct 7 11:10:11 2000
Name:	Marilyn La Court
E-mail:	ccsllc@execpc.com
Organization:	Communication Programs, LLC
Location:	Wauwatosa WI
How the site was found:	searched for it
Comments:	Why haven't I seen your name in all the literature on youth violence prevention programs? Obviously encouraging cooperation between students is a violence prevention strategy.

Date:	Fri Oct 6 09:04:13 2000
Name:	William Cala
E-mail:	wcala@servtech.com
Organization:	Fairport Central Schools
Location:	Fairport New York
How the site was found:	Jan Hammond SUNY @ New Paltz
Comments:	I was on a reaction panel at Universtity of Rochester two years ago with Alfie. I am currently battling the testing insanity in NY. I believe it is time for civil disobedience. If I can help, let me know. Bill Cala Superintendent Fairport Schools

Date:	Fri Oct 6 08:26:10 2000
Name:	Joyce M. Cole
E-mail:	Spikecole@AOL.com
Organization:	Lincoln Public School
Location:	Lincoln, MA
How the site was found:	from discussion at our school on 10/5
Comments:	Dear Mr. Kohn, Thank you for an interesting and thoughtful presentation about standardized testing. I look forward to reading your book.

Date:	Thu Oct 5 22:53:49 2000
Name:	Mike Burman
E-mail:	burman@powercom.net
Organization:	Watertown High School
Location:	Watertown
How the site was found:	From one of Alfie's books
Comments:	I have four of Kohn's books (I still have one to read), and those books have really changed my philosophy on what I want to do in my classroom. As a second year teacher, I'm glad I "stumbled" upon more of Kohn's books recently. I look forward to seeing Alfie speak in Appleton, WI in a couple weeks. Thanks, Mike Burman Language Arts Teacher Watertown High School Watertown, WI

Date:	Thu Oct 5 18:01:55 2000
Name:	Amy Maupin
E-mail:	amaupin@bamaed.ua.edu
Organization:	The University of Alabama
Location:	Tuscaloosa, Alabama
How the site was found:	An article (Journal of Teacher Education)
Comments:	I am reading THE SCHOOLS OUR CHILDREN DESERVE and have the urge to applaud all the way through it. I am in agreement with what Mr. Kohn says and would like to know what measures he has taken to influence lawmakers. Also, I sent Al Gore a message and told him to READ THE BOOK. I'm sick of the rhetoric between Bush and Gore concerning high stakes accountability and "tougher standards." They don't get it, do they.

Date:	Wed Oct 4 13:30:14 2000
Name:	PHILIP WILSON
E-mail:	PHILIPGRAHAMWILSON@ic24.net
Organization:	BMB BUILDERS MERCHANTS
Location:	PONTEFRACT WEST YORKSHIRE ENGLAND
How the site was found:	AFTER WATCHING YOUR VIDEO
Comments:	MORE PLEASE MORE!!!!!!!

Date:	Wed Oct 4 12:53:04 2000
Name:	Dr. Tom
E-mail:	natureproducts@sprintmail.com
Organization:	Forming child advocacy group.
Location:	Cincinnati
How the site was found:	From being pushy
Comments:	Dear Mr. Kohn: This is the follow-up letter you suggested. I found your book, "The schools our children deserve",extremely difficult to read continuously. That was because almost everything you state confirms my own thinking from over the years.I then immediately worry, why doesn't every educatior in the country promote this? What I find quite striking is that you apply these concepts through high school, not just to early childhood education where a similar view of the research has occured. I'm not sure, however, that enough of the historical perspective on why our schools are the way they are is in text and on record for the public. The best I have read on this topic lately is "The rise and fall of the American teenager," by Thomas Hine. Although it addresses why we segregate and fear teenagers, the history of American school formation is excellent. I believe the text also yields insight as to why we have extended such treatment down into the first grade. Not even all kindergartens remain a safe haven from the trend to address our adult world problems by institutionally coercing the development of our children. What I see as the most egregious result of this trend follows. This is a topic with related implications that I find myself almost alone in writing about. That is, the ergonomics of public school and even many private school environments are terrible. State of the art air quality, which could be had for the asking, is ignored. Lights that enhance visual function and similarly enhancing lighting design are more rare than schools adopting your suggestions. Stress reducing interior designs are non-existant, instead we have competative, overcrowded sites. Overal, what we thus have, at least in my territory and I think in most places, are situations that attempt to a. Force the mind into learning. b. Force an adaption to a health deficient and stress laden environment. c. Maintain a captive audience in environments that augment the sensitization (or out of dubious luck, desensitization) to allergens, pollution, infectious diseases, and chronic stress. Such adaption often has a negative effect, and I believe is one major reason, among others, for the relatively recent expodential expansion of myopia, asthma, hyperactivity under all of its new names, learning disorders,anxiety disorders and depression in the young. More theoretically, I believe that a certain fine, if not revolutionary type of mind found in children is tied to profound sensitivity. This sensitivity, in our environments, most often is automatically defined as hypersensitivity, usually considered to be panic, fear, or just plain abnormal behavior. For example, one child, whom I know well, sensed on the first day of 7th grade that his social studies teacher was "depressed" and didn't really want to teach (yes, a different teach for each of 6 subjects and study hall,with classes devided into basic, college prep, honors, and accelerated, and an old, crowded building undergoing new construction with a different smell in each class). His "honors" science teacher appeared to be of the opinion that anyone not keeping up with a volume loaded agenda should drop to a lower class and leave the teacher alone. On top of this, discipline and punishment for infraction is the norm--tardy slips for being late to class, for example, even though many kids are running to the next class. That's running as in literally jogging. As it turned out, the social studies teacher was expecting his wife to go into labor, was going to have to take leave, and probably was depressed. Dropping to college prep science instead of the more "acclerated" class alleviated much of this young man's immediate concern. However, his daily headaches, along with those of twenty to forty percent of the children in the building, continued. By the way, this is the public school system with the best reputation in the Cincinnati area. What we all face is overcrowding and health blindness, some of the results of which I have mentioned above. In addition, in 3 to 4 years, we will have the biggest teenage population to grace us in this century, and we have not prepared. Since the trend is to expand old buildings with inadequate building codes, I don't see the health of school structures improving any time soon. The stated rationalization on the part of some administrators I've talked with is essentially,"this is real life, deal with it," i.e. that which does not kill me makes be stronger. Meanwhile, just to re-iterate one example, 80 to 90% of PH.D graduates these days are near- sighted. This situation is preventable. In essense, what we have on the part of such schools in a behavioral technique, which has been called, "implosion," and assumes that the normal fears or ill-feelings arising in tense situations will dissapear when more of the same is delivered consistantly and with force. This is opposed to another behavioral technique, systematic desensitization, which assumes a relaxation response must first occur and be reinforced in the face of new stressors, allowing the subject to gradually adapt under less fearful conditions. Unfortunately, we are choosing to force adaptation at the highest stress level rather than the lowest. This, as backed up by more and more medical research, augments the spread of certain disease states. Thus my original question about home schooling.The fear is that home schoolers won't sufficiently "adapt," while the research to date shows that they are at least as adaptable and socially adept. The level of socialization might look similar, but the question is at what cost in the energy of adaptation. I have a series of published articles related to the above diatribe. If you would like, send be an email address that can accept attachments and I'll send some. I look forward to reading your newest book. I also notice that your itinerary does not include the midwest. I wonder why and hope this will change--Chicago maybe? Will continue to promote your work in our "school" system. Until later: Dr. Tom Thomas R. Firor MD/MBA

Date:	Wed Oct 4 12:44:02 2000
Name:	Latrice Tramble
E-mail:	tramble@netzero.net
Organization:	Cleveland Municipal School District
Location:	Cleveland
How the site was found:	I did a web search
Comments:	I am doing a redearch project on Alfie and I would like more information on what thoughts and ideas

Date:	Wed Oct 4 10:43:52 2000
Name:	John J. Kosko
E-mail:	jkosko@mec.edu
Organization:	South Shore Regional[vocational] S. D.
Location:	Hanover, MA
How the site was found:	The Case Against .....
Comments:	Would love to chat - Live off Concord Ave. [781]878-8822[work] [617]497-7497[home]

Date:	Tue Oct 3 21:20:53 2000
Name:	Mary C. Lamb
E-mail:	mary.lamb@granite.k12.it.us
Organization:	Hillsdale Elementary
Location:	Salt Lake City, Ut
How the site was found:	In your book "The Schools Our Children Deserve"
Comments:	We are in the midst of the "tougher standards and accountability" movement in Utah. It's very refreshing and validating to read the comments in the book.

Date:	Tue Oct 3 14:19:54 2000
Name:	Charles Hoff
E-mail:	choff@aa.net
Organization:
Location:	Kent, WA
How the site was found:	Education Week
Comments:	Dear Sir; I have recently read your article in "Education Week" and I appreciate many of your arguements. One of the realities of today that you did not address is the fact that the employment market, as well as "academic colleges" are continuing to use testing as a threshold for placement. I have seen, in industry, in the past few years increasing use of testing in the hiring process. As Industry has found that "educational certification" has a variable meaning testing has become a major issue. If this is the case where is it best to realize that additional efforts are required? In a school situation, or after leaving school? I think we would both agree that the educational environment is the answer. There aren't as far as I can determine, several entrances to a job site designated with different skill levels. Sincerely, Charles Hoff

Date:	Tue Oct 3 12:26:04 2000
Name:	Ruth Henning
E-mail:	HenningRJ@aol.com
Organization:	Project CHOICES
Location:	Naperville, IL
How the site was found:	ASCD conference
Comments:	I am totally frustrated with the impact that the move twoards testing has had on our schools. Curfiulum is being narrowed, teachers are losing jobs vbecause of test scores, kids are only learning to answer questions in test formats. Where is the real understanding and lifelong learning?

Date:	Tue Oct 3 09:15:20 2000
Name:	J. Linner
E-mail:	linner@newnet.org
Organization:
Location:	Hillview, IL
How the site was found:
Comments:	Great stuff.

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