(*) = included in
What to Look for in a Classroom ... and Other Essays
(**) = included in
What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? ... and Other
Essays
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Education Periodicals |
Phi Delta Kappan
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"Who's Cheating Whom?", October 2007
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"Abusing Research: The Study of Homework and Other Examples," September 2006
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"Challenging Students -- And How to Have More of Them," November 2004
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"Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow," April 2004
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"The 500-Pound Gorilla," [corporations & the schools], October 2002 (**)
- "Fighting the
Tests: A Practical Guide to Rescuing Our Schools," January 2001
- "Only for
My Kid: How Privileged Parents Undermine School Reform," April 1998(*)
- "How Not to
Teach Values: A Critical Look at Character Education," Feb. 1997 (*)
- "The Truth About
Self-Esteem," December 1994 (*)
- "Choices for
Children: Why and How to Let Students Decide," September 1993 (*)
- "Caring Kids:
The Role of the Schools," March 1991 (*)
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Education Week
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"Against 'Competitiveness,'" September 19, 2007
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"The Truth About Homework," September 6, 2006
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"Getting-Hit-on-the-Head Lessons," September 7, 2005
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"Feel-Bad Education: The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy," September 15, 2004
- "The
Folly of Merit Pay," September 17, 2003 (**)
- "Education's
Rotten Apples," September 18, 2002 (**)
- "Beware of
the Standards, Not Just the Tests," September 26, 2001 (**)
- "Standardized
Testing and Its Victims," September 27, 2000 (**)
- "Confusing
Harder with Better," September 15, 1999 (**)
- "Students
Don't 'Work' - They Learn," September 3, 1997 (*)
- "Beyond
Discipline," November 20, 1996 (*)
- "Newt
Gingrich's Reading Plan," April 19, 1995 (*)
Chronicle of Higher Education
Young Children
American School Board Journal
School Administrator
Educational Leadership [also see INTERVIEWS, below]
Principal Leadership [NASSP]
NewsLeader [NASSP]
Principal [NAESP]
Streamlined Seminar [NAESP]
High School Magazine
Educational Horizons
Independent School [also see INTERVIEWS, below]
English Journal
Language Arts
- "Poor Teaching for Poor Kids," January 2002
Schools: Studies in Education
Rethinking Schools
Kappa Delta Pi Record
Reaching Today's Youth
Instructor
Learning Magazine
Camping Magazine
- "Rethinking Character Education: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Camp and Kids," September/October 2003
School Board News
NAMTA Journal
- "The Schools Our Children Deserve: Helping Parents Understand the Rationale for Alternative Education," Winter 2007
- "Raising Children Who Care," Spring 2000
- "Beyond Bribes and Threats: How Not to Get Control of the Classroom," Winter 1998
Journal of Teacher Education
- "Burnt at the High Stakes," vol. 51, no. 4, September/October 2000
Journal of Education
- "Resistance to Cooperative Learning: Making Sense of Its Deletion and Dilution," vol. 174 (1992) (*)
Teacher Magazine
- "Joyless Endeavors" [reprint of "Feel-Bad Education"
in Education Week], November/December 2004
- "The ABCs of Caring," January/February 1990
- "Human Nature's Brighter Side," June/July 1990
ERIC Digest
Cooperative Learning Magazine
- "Rewards in the 'Real World': The Workplace, the Classroom, and the Status Quo," vol. 14, no. 2, (1994)
- "Is Competition Ever Appropriate in a Cooperative Classroom?", vol. 13, no. 3 (1993)
- "The ABCs of Caring," vol. 10, no. 3 (1990)
Cooperative Learning and College Teaching
- "Beyond the Traditional Classroom: From Degrading to De-Grading," Spring 1994
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General Interest Periodicals
New York Times
- "Tests That Cheat
Students" (op ed), December 9, 1999
- "In Pursuit of
Affluence, at a High Price," (Science Times), February 2, 1999
- "For Best
Results, Forget the Bonus," (Business section), October 17, 1993
- "Competition vs. Excellence"(op ed), April 26, 1991
Washington Post [also see INTERVIEWS, below]
USA Today
Boston Globe
- "One-Size-Fits-All
Education Doesn't Work," June 10, 2001
- "No to More Standardized Testing," January 26, 2001
- "Poor Teaching
for Poor Students: More Reasons to Boycott the MCAS Tests," March 20, 2000
- "Tougher Tests =
Lower Standards", September 29, 1999
- "The Trouble with School Uniforms," October 2, 1996 (*)
- "Emphasis Belongs on Learning, Not Grades" (on grade inflation), September 15, 1995 (*)
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"School Choice Myths," April 24, 1993 (*)
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"Value Human Life, Not American Power," March 16, 1991
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"Paris Slide Show," June 19, 1988
The Nation
The Atlantic Monthly
American Health
Health
- "The Risks of Rewards," May 1990
Reader's Digest
- "Don't Believe Everything You Hear," July 1992
- "You Know What They Say...," July 1988
Psychology Today
- "Do Religious People Help More? Not So You'd Notice," December 1989
- "After Happily Ever After," January-February 1989
- "Evidence for a Moral Tradition," January-February 1989
- "Beyond Selfishness," October 1988
- "Are Humans Innately Aggressive?", June 1988
- "You Know What They Say...," April 1988
- "Girl Talk, Guy Talk," February 1988
- "Making the Most of Marriage," December 1987
- "It's Hard to Get Left Out of a Pair" (profile of Johnson brothers), October 1987
- "Art for Art's Sake" (profile of Teresa Amabile), September 1987
- "How to Succeed Without Even Vying," September 1986
Boston Phoenix
Women's Sports & Fitness
The Georgia Review
Tikkun
- "The Real Threat to American Schools," March/April 2001
The Sondheim Review
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Parenting Magazines
Parents Magazine
Parenting Magazine
- "How to Raise an Assertive Child (But Not an Aggressive One)," April 1995
Growing Without Schooling
- "Rethinking Discipline: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn," May-June 1997
Ladies Home Journal
- "The Spoiled Child," May 1991
- "Raising Kids Who Care," December 1989
- "The New Discipline," November 1989
Working Mother
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Business Magazines
Harvard Business Review
- "Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work," September-October 1993
Compensation and Benefits Review
Inc. magazine
- "Incentives Can Be Bad for Business," January 1988
- "No Contest," November 1987
(For more business-related publications, please see the Rethinking Management page.)
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Interviews and Profiles
Educational Leadership
Washington Post
Hope Magazine
American School Board Journal
- "Battling 'Myths': A Q&A with Author Alfie Kohn" [about homework], February 2007
English Education
Los Angeles Times
- "Crusader Argues School Reforms Hinder Learning," Feb. 22, 2000
Independent School
Creative Classroom
- "Testing on Trial: Educator Alfie Kohn Speaks Out," January/February 2002
Harvard Education Letter
- "The Case Against Rewards and Praise: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn," March-April 1994
The Constructivist
- "A Conversation with Alfie Kohn," Summer 1997
Growing Without Schooling
- "Rethinking Discipline: A Conversation with Alfie Kohn," May-June 1997
- "The Trouble with Rewards: An Interview with Alfie Kohn," September-October 1994
The Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers
- "Offering Challenges, Creating Cognitive Dissonance," March and July 1997
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Book Chapters & Forewords
- "The Trouble with Pure Freedom: A Case for Active Adult Involvement in Progressive Education," in
The Directory of Democratic Education, 2nd ed., edited by Dana M. Bennis and Isaac R. Graves (Alternative Education Resource Organization, 2007)
- Foreword to Psychology of Academic Cheating, edited by Eric M. Anderman and Tamera B. Murdock (Academic Press, 2006).
[For a similar article, see "Who's Cheating Whom?"]
- Foreword to Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment by Maja Wilson (Heinemann, 2006).
[For a similar article, see "The Trouble with Rubrics."]
- "NCLB and the Effort to Privatize Public Education," in Many Children Left Behind,
edited by Deborah Meier and George Wood (Beacon Press, 2004). [For a similar article, see "Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow."]
- Foreword to Learning to Trust: Transforming Difficult Elementary Classrooms Through Developmental Discipline by Marilyn Watson
(Jossey-Bass, 2003)
- Foreword to What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten?
by Susan Ohanian (McGraw-Hill, 2002)
- "A Look at Maslow's Basic Propositions," in Perceiving, Behaving, Becoming: Lessons Learned, edited by H. J. Freiberg (ASCD, 1999) (**)
- "Television and Children: ReViewing the Evidence," in What to Look for in a Classroom...
And Other Essays (Jossey-Bass, 1998) (*)
- "The Trouble with Character Education," in The Construction of Children's Character - 96th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II, edited by A. Molnar (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997)
[For a similar article, see "How Not to Teach Values."]
- "Cooperation: What It Means and Doesn't Mean," in Cooperation: Beyond the Age of Competition, edited by A. Combs (Gordon & Breach, 1992)
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