In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.
Alfie KohnWe can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.
Alfie KohnSometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we're doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them.
Alfie KohnWhoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.
Alfie KohnMost of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children
Alfie Kohn