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Aug

2009

www.alfiekohn.org/...gj.htm

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Mar

2009

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For that reason, I think of Kohn as the honeyguide of education. The honeyguide is a bird that leads humans to bee colonies. Once the human has opened the hive and taken the honey, the bird feeds on the wax and larvae that remain behind. So it is with Kohn. He will lead you to something interesting and useful, but if you want to use it, you will have to do the work yourself.

Feb

2009

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How can we rid our schools of those who refuse to be team players? Well, we can insist that all classroom instruction be rigorously aligned to state standards – a very effective technique since most of those standards documents were drafted by people steeped in the models, methods, and metaphors of corporations.
The final distinguishing feature of education that’s geared to the next century is its worshipful attitude toward mathematics and technology. “If you can’t quantify it or plug it in, who needs it?”