| Date: | Sat May 31 19:15:54 2003 |
| Name: | Cynthia Rucker |
| E-mail: | crucker@laca.org |
| Organization: | Maysville 6-12 |
| Location: | Mount Perry, OH |
| Comments: | Interesting site. Today, a student in my
English 10 class asked me the difference between a
private school education and a public school one--we are
in a public one--and...I told him they spend much less
time worrying about state tests!
|
| Date: | Fri May 30 06:35:23 2003 |
| Name: | Edward Sparks |
| E-mail: | esparks@csnewfrontiers.qc.ca |
| Organization: | New Frontiers School Board |
| Location: | Ormstown, Quebec, Canada |
| Name: | David Airey |
| E-mail: | david.airey@millville.org |
| Organization: | Millville Board of Education |
| Location: | New Jersey |
| Comments: | The text of the article made reference
to your website and I felt compelled to find and bookmark
it for future use. In New Jersey testing and state
requirements for completing forms, surveys, and a host of
other nonsensical "stuff" make my job as an
educator absolutely frustrating. |
| Name: | John Perry |
| E-mail: | mentelibre@att.net |
| Organization: | Florida Coalition for Assessment Reform |
| Location: | Tampa, FL |
| How the site was found: |
May 29, 2003 Philadelphia Enquirer article by Connie Langland |
| Date: | Thu May 29 16:45:41 2003 |
| Name: | Ellen Blue |
| E-mail: | ellen_blue@scs.k12.nc.us |
| Organization: | Stanly County Schools |
| Location: | Albemarle, NC |
| How the site was found: |
Google search |
| Comments: | I am writing a research paper for my
masters program. Honestly, I had never heard of Alfie
Kohn until this assignment. I can't believe it! I agree
with everything I have read on this site. Actually, I can
believe it. I am certain that the powers-that-be in our
state don't want us to read to much of this stuff. It
seems our entire school program state-wide is based on
end-of-grade standardized testing!! Thanks for being the
voice of reason. I hope I do you justice in my paper! |
| Date: | Thu May 29 14:37:32 2003 |
| Name: | JAMES F. O'NEILL |
| E-mail: | joneill@chatham-nj.org |
| Organization: | School District of the Chathams |
| Location: | Chatham, NJ 07928 |
| How the site was found: |
noted in article about speech on testing in Lr. Merion, PA |
| Comments: | Thanks for your efforts to derail this
foolish and simplistic answer to insuring quality
education. God forbid we all strive to have schools as
good as they are in Texas. |
| Date: | Thu May 29 12:15:44 2003 |
| Name: | Lisa Lavoie |
| E-mail: | llavoie@txcc.commnet.edu |
| Organization: | Tunxis Community College |
| Location: | Farmington, CT 06032 |
| How the site was found: |
via an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer |
| Comments: | I would love to have Mr. Kohn come to Connecticut and de-program the school administrators who have lost sight of the purpose of education and the beauty of learning. My daughter's teachers spend weeks teaching to the tests and most of the children are so frightened "they won't pass." The horror truly comes when the towns are rated in the local newspaper and real estate values are assigned accordingly. What a world, what a world. Please keep your trumpets blaring! Our children are not numbers. |
| Date: | Thu May 29 12:03:45 2003 |
| Name: | Kathryn M. Benson |
| E-mail: | kmb@sprhill.net |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Springhill, LA |
| Comments: | Surely more and more effort will be made
by concerned educators, students, and parents to loosen
the stranglehold of standardized testing. |
| Date: | Thu May 29 09:54:29 2003 |
| Name: | Dawn M. Burke |
| E-mail: | dawnmarieburke@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | Pa Homeschooling |
| Location: | Franconia, PA |
| Comments: | Alfie, your philosophy of education is exactly why I left a public school teaching position and took my 3 sons out to homeschool them. Most children in traditional school settings are deprived of the fine arts of music, artwork, literature, and critical thinking. While the state of Pennsylvania requires standardized testing in 3rd, 5th and 8th grades for homeschooled students, I don't put a big emphasis on the "day of all days" (the testing date), but present it to my sons as an opportunity to check out there general knowledge, and encourage them to do the best that they can. Having an academically gifted son, an average son, and a learning-disabled son, I can see how the emphasis on standardized testing is an unhealthy balance of achieving a complete education. Standardized tests do not evaluate critical thinking skills, and cultural knowledge and appreciation. Thanks for your determination to rally for true education for students in our country! |
| Date: | Wed May 28 05:43:57 2003 |
| Name: | daniela iizuka |
| E-mail: | iizuka@erols.com |
| Organization: | Committee for Special Ed. of Lower Merion School District |
| Location: | Pennsylvania |
| How the site was found: |
heard from Alfie Kohn |
| Comments: | Please convey to Mr. Kohn how much I
enjoyed his presentation to teachers, parents, and
administrators last night in Lower Merion School
District. I agree with his message 100% and am now
inspired to be more pro-active toward eliminating most if
not all standardized tests! Thank you very much.
sincerely, Danny Iizuka |
| Date: | Wed May 28 05:15:36 2003 |
| Name: | Chantelle Lloyd |
| E-mail: | clloyd3@pobox.une.edu.au |
| Organization: | University student |
| Location: | Armidale, Australia |
| How the site was found: |
Google search engine |
| Comments: | Your website was very helpful in filling
me in on your theory and backgroud. You are a theorist we
are looking at, at the moment, so this website was very
helpful.Thanks |
| Date: | Sun May 25 07:51:45 2003 |
| Name: | Guy Moores |
| E-mail: | novascotia@hushmail.com |
| Organization: | a school board in N.S. |
| Location: | Nova Scotia, Canada |
| How the site was found: |
regular visitor |
| Comments: | Dear Alfie: I want to thank you for your web site. I come here often for a taste of sanity in this bizarre world of educational testing. In Nova Scotia a grade 12 provincial mathematics exam will be introduced in January 2004. The teachers in this province are being told that teaching to the test is exactly what the Provincial Department of Education wants us to do with respect to the upcoming provincial math exam. In this way, Department of Education officials say we will be covering all of the learning outcomes. At the present time there are so many outcomes it is impossible to cover all of them. The stress level among teachers and students is high now because there are too many learning outcomes. Next year the situation will be much worse as the emphasis switches to achieving success on a standarized exam. I fear for our average or marginal students. Mathematics is so important for these students who will be facing a pace of learning that will be so hard and fast that they will not be able to keep up. The failure rates surely will rise. To make all of this even more confusing, the largest school board in Nova Scotia (Halifax Regional School Board) embarked on a process several years ago to treat students as individuals, to recognize that each student is uniquely different in how he or she learns. At the school board level the emphasis has been on learning styles and on a wide variety of assessment strategies. Formal testing has been de-emphasized. I think the school board got it right. So now we have two conflicting philosophies in the same province. We are being asked to teach mathematics using a constructivist approach and, at the same time we are being told to teach to the test with an impossible number of learning outcomes. This is insanity and this is why I am so grateful for your web site. |
| Date: | Fri May 23 23:16:56 2003 |
| Name: | Vishnu Kant |
| E-mail: | vishnukant@vsnl.net |
| Organization: | The Teacher Foundation |
| Location: | India |
| How the site was found: |
through a friends |
| Comments: | Wonderful work, Dr. Cohn! Could I
request you to post me about your activities, and how can
I benefit from them here in India. |
| Date: | Fri May 23 16:09:46 2003 |
| Name: | Charlene Bain |
| E-mail: | craeb@msn.com |
| Organization: | Heritage Institure, Antioch University |
| Location: | Washington state |
| How the site was found: |
A class syllabus |
| Comments: | I'm interested in learning more about
Alfie's philosopy. I attended two of his lectures on May
16 and 17, 2003. I found them thought provoking and
contrary to practices I'm familiar with. |
| Date: | Wed May 21 07:22:35 2003 |
| Name: | Dr. Dan |
| E-mail: | drdanarch@aol.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Nebraska |
| Comments: | Some states have found another way to to
turn an ordinary event into a competition: selection of
license plates in Nebraska (Indiana and Nevada as well, I
believe) is done through a design contest. In Nebraska,
the contest is open to all residents--including
professional artists. I wonder if a child (or
average-Jo/Joe adult, for that matter) with a clever idea
but just a box of crayons really has a prayer against a
professional armed with QuarkXpress or Adobe Photoshop.
"Losers" in contests often feel resentment
toward the "winners," as Mr. Kohn points out in
"No Contest: The Case Against Competition."
This contest is no exception. It's a license plate, for
Pete's sake. What a basis for turning people against one
another. |
| recommended | |
| Date: | Sun May 18 20:43:22 2003 |
| Name: | Jahi Omari |
| E-mail: | healinghands9@aol.com |
| Organization: | Enrichment Education Svc. Inc |
| Location: | Atlanta,GA |
| How the site was found: |
"High Stakes" article |
| Comments: | I thoroughly enjoyed reading your
article. You spoke with a voice and concern that is very
real for me. Continue to sound the trumpet. |
| Date: | Fri May 16 23:03:13 2003 |
| Name: | Dena Ramm |
| E-mail: | rammlyon@cedarcomm.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Stanwood |
| How the site was found: |
|
| Comments: | Thank you for your inspiring words
tonight. We will be better teachers and parents. Looking
forward to reading about "choices". Great
website. My son and students also thank you. |
| Date: | Tue May 13 02:14:15 2003 |
| Name: | Heather Young |
| E-mail: | heathfieldyoung@xtra.co.nz |
| Organization: | none |
| Location: | New Zealand |
| How the site was found: |
doing some research for unschooling workshop |
| Comments: | I had always intended to homeschool my son, and the state of the local school only served to reinforce that decision. I soon found that 'traditional' homeschooling did not suit us either. For years I actually thought no one else in the world was 'slacking off' the way we did until I happened on to some Growing Without Schooling issues. At times I found unschooling my one son to be frightening. It went very much against the local culture, and I was, again for years, unsure if it was the right way to raise my child to his best advantage. I could only go on the feeling that it seemed to be the best way for us as a family. He is 14 now and I am much more confident in what we have done as a family. We left The US 10 years ago, as my husband is a kiwi (what NZer,s call themselves), and on finally purchasing a computer and finding this and other websites (through the computer talents of my self taught son-sorry, proud mother getting carried away) my overwhelming emotion is 'whew!' well we made it this far, lets keep going! It is pretty inspirational to see the number of people who care about young people and are willing to challenge seemingly insurmountable odds in their cause. My thoughts are with you all. |
| Date: | Mon May 12 00:37:36 2003 |
| Name: | Cathy Wilton |
| E-mail: | mailto:lokikane%20@yahoo.com.au |
| Organization: | Australsian Association for Progressive and alternative education |
| Location: | Sydney, Australia |
| Comments: | The Australasin Association for
progressive and alternative education (AAPAE) are
constantly challenging the Australian government's push
for compulsory standardised testing and implementation of
set curriculum documents. We challenge the the idea that
there can only be one way to teach and learn. We'd love
any likeminded people to shrae our ideas at
ausschools@yahoogroups.com.au
|
| Comments: | Our school is going through STAR
testing. We have not made our API goals for the last two
years. I don't care but everyone else does. So I turn to
your site ever morning for a daily dose of wisdom. Thank
you.
|
| Date: | Sun May 4 10:42:27 2003 |
| Name: | Loren Floto |
| E-mail: | lrfloto@aol.com |
| Organization: | Maria Montessori Magnet School |
| Location: | Rockford, IL |
| How the site was found: |
Listened to your taped keynote address, 2002 |
| Comments: | Thanks for providing continual inspiration to avoid the pitfalls of creeping competition and criticism, which seem to afflict me. We are waging a losing battle against the growth of standardized testing and regimentation in Illinois public schools. Teachers are not organized to resist, but find it easier to 'go along,' Kind of like the whole nation is 'going along' with the Bush agenda. |
| Date: | Sat May 3 07:48:28 2003 |
| Name: | Angela C. Davis |
| E-mail: | davisa72@aol.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | New York, NY |
| How the site was found: |
From your books |
| Comments: | Hello Alfie: I recently attended your presentation at Pace University. I have read "The Schools Our Children Deserve" and "Beyond Discipline," however, it was even better to listen to you reiterate your key points in person. I was one of the participants who stayed after to speak with you and I thank you for your suggestions about alternatives to grades. During the conversation after your presentation, you mentioned Wiggins and not quite agreeing with some of his work. I recently read "Understanding by Design," and found it very insightful in terms of curriculum design and unit planning. I would love to get your thoughts about Wiggins and of course, any critiques of his work. Thanks again for your work. It is truly inspirational. |
| Name: | Stephen E. Brown |
| E-mail: | sbrown@parkland.edu |
| Organization: | Parkland College |
| Location: | Champaign, Illinois |
| How the site was found: |
from a link |
| Comments: | I attended your telecourse "Why Incentives Don't Work" many years ago, and still find the concepts learned there to be valid and valuable. Please put me on your mailing list. Thank You. Steve |
| Date: | Tue Apr 29 12:02:25 2003 |
| Name: | Linda Frame |
| E-mail: | framel@jsd.k12.ak.us |
| Organization: | Juneau School District |
| Location: | Juneau, Alaska |
| How the site was found: |
google search |
| Comments: | Thank you!!! I needed good substantiation for a paper on politics of education. Testing is so infuriating that I can not pass it up! Keep up the great work! We need your words of wisdom. from one more stubborn teacher who believes in creativity and kids! |
| Name: | Karen Attanasio |
| E-mail: | attanaka@collier.k12.fl.us |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: |
Lecture at FGCU |
| Comments: | Wow! I have a new mission as a parent and future educator - Spay the FCAT. |
| E-mail: | |
| Depew, Oklahoma | |
| Search engine | |
| Date: | Sat Apr 19 11:31:32 2003 |
| Name: | Mike Kell |
| E-mail: | mdkell1027@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | Sachool District Springfield Township |
| Location: | Erdenheim, PA |
| How the site was found: |
Education Week article giving me your website |
| Comments: | IAm in a progressive school, public. We
are in the throws of standardized movement. I and my
principal (Iam the assistant) are focusing on teaching
and learning and project based academicas for lowerer
achievers and remediation education to increase student
performances. We view opportunities to learn as a
priority. We have a increaseingly diverse population. Our
transfer-in students are ever increasing and we are
focusing on educating the lowest quitile. We factor in
many assessments! Keep writing the articles- I'm in
agreement! Thanks, Mike Kell |
| Date: | Fri Apr 18 15:27:20 2003 |
| Name: | Elizabeth Silverthorne |
| E-mail: | emealing@ucla.edu |
| Organization: | Student, UCLA |
| Location: | Los Angeles |
| How the site was found: |
google search |
| Comments: | I am perhaps a bit young to have
discovered Alfie Kohn, but when I read The Schools Our
Children Deserve it was like seeing a beautifully
articulated compilation of all my most passionate
feelings regarding our education system. I just graduated
from high school last year and I still don't know how I
managed to stick with it all. As a gifted student
throughout my school career, I was continually confronted
by the absolute ineffectiveness of our education system.
Luckily, I had a supportive group of friends and a few
incredible teachers who encouraged me in developing my
criticisms and ideals regarding the way children ought to
be educated. I must say that Kohn is absolutely on track
with everything I have ever felt as a young student. To
all parents and students who have been robbed by a system
which does little to develop the immense potential of all
learners, even in the face of the bulk of educational
research which calls for change, must we sit back and let
things continue to worsen? I am a Psychology student with
an Education Studies minor who is blessed to be able to
intern at the University Elementary School, a laboratory
school that collaborates with UCLA's graduate school of
education. Many of Kohn's theories are implemented at
this school (it is non-graded, etc), and the difference
is incredible! Students are genuinely exicted about
coming to school each day. I have always known I would
dedicate my life to finding a way to change the system,
and for the sake of the many people whose views are
represented here, and especially for my own future
children, I will not sit back and allow things to
continue to worsen. I hope to continue on to graduate
school, and use my experience to become active
politically, the only means I can see to make real
changes. What is being done right now, on local and
national levels, to effect change? I respect the opinions
of those who have also seen this site, and would love to
know what you all are doing. |
| Date: | Fri Apr 18 10:08:37 2003 |
| Name: | Lynn Helde |
| E-mail: | lynnhelde@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | Pittsfield, MA Public Schools |
| Location: | Pittsfield, MA |
| How the site was found: |
Reference |
| Comments: | I'm currently reading Building Classroom
Discipline by CM Charles. I've just read the chapter on
Beyond Discipline...some of your philosophies and ideas
on structuring a class. It sounds so similar to many of
the things I've been learning about the responsive
classroom. I've been an adult teacher/trainer focused on
managment skills, etc for years now... I've been trying
to share the sames message... people don't need tangible
rewards... let students "attribute" their
successes and failures to themselves and their efforts,
not because of other people and things! Thanks for being
so thought provoking! I'm enjoying doing the research on
you and your theories. I'm actually doing my final class
project on you and your principal teachings! I can't
wait! Good Luck! Lynn Ashburn Helde! |
| Date: | Thu Apr 17 22:19:03 2003 |
| Name: | Lauren Silver |
| E-mail: | cartini@telkom.net |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Indonesia |
| How the site was found: |
search engine |
| Comments: | Dear Mr. Kohn, I have just read your book, "Punished by Rewards." At first it made me feel very nervous, as I began to recognize the real effects of manipulative control techniques promoted as ways to "motivate." But my stomach calmed down a bit as I reached the latter parts of the book which point to sound alternatives that, insha'Allah, will eventually change the way people relate to one another. Although I realize your intention is to improve the lot of children, students and workers, it seems the proponents of behaviorist methods may actually be more entrenched now as a result of your arguments. Therefore, a change of approach might be in order, and I would like to offer the following modest suggestion regarding strategy. |
| a friend recommended it | |
| Date: | Fri Apr 11 18:25:54 2003 |
| Name: | Sara Ellis |
| E-mail: | pigtree@fa2.so-net.ne.jp |
| Organization: | Tokyo Cow |
| Location: | Tokyo, Japan |
| How the site was found: |
npr |
| Comments: | Dear Mr. Kohn, just listened to an old interview with you on npr. As a teacher in Japan I cannot agree with you enough about standardized testing. I have worked for years within a system that bases the entire futures of Japan's young people on the results of entrance examinations. It is, I believe, the worst education system in the world. The students are so driven into binary thinking that they cannot formulate simple sentences or take part in casual conversation. The common analogy here is "dutiful robot." There is no encouragement of critical thinking or creativity, there is only one right answer for everything. Literature is taught to them in chunks, for example, the only thing they have to know from Hamlet is "To be or not to be." Even Japanese classics are taught in this fashion, disjointed quotes, and the names of writers and the dates they were born. I have English language teachers who instead of being able to enjoy teaching the beauty of the language come up and haggle me with questions like "Which word is better, morose, melancholic, or depressed?" They must choose one for the test without regard for the nuance of each word. Even worse! Grammatic rules are simply made up by certain "scholars" for testing where there are actually none in English. In the meantime , the kids studying all of this drivel cannot even form a sentence either verbally or on paper. Everything is ground down to a binary code, art, English, music, math, history. There is no room for creativity at all. The teachers who want to teach in creative ways are unable to and eventually run down by the system(run by Japan's bureau of thought police, the Ministry of Education) which forces them to always be on a tight schedule, teaching a certain amount of material by a specific date, year after year after year. Anyway, you already know all of this I presume but here's the real secret, because of the crazed emphasis on standardized testing, kids in Japan have become the worst behaved students in the developed world. The kids who don't do well on these tests are so nihilistic about their futures that they have no intellectual curiousity whatsoever. Everything these kids learn on their tests is forgotten weeks later, it's the training of short-term memory only. I howled with laughter when the U.N. recently gave Japan the number two spot for education in the world. It's the number one spot for automaton training. I am sickened whenever I hear calls for standardized testing in the United States. No matter how "crappy" some of my teachers may have been, they were never frantic babysitters working only to spoon feed me information. |
| E-mail: | ckjdat@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: |
google search |
| Comments: | I enjoyed your lecture last evening at
Pace. I was the big white guy down front in the red
sweater who asked about the dollar cost of standardized
testing. Please do some checking and find what it costs
per kid per year. I think that it in and of itself is a
compelling aurguement against standardized testing. We
could do such better thing with the money. A group from
my grad class in classroom management at Queens College
is presenting Beyond Discipline to our classmates. We
have the entire 1 1/2 hour class. In your experience,
what would be the best way to approach this? We want to
start by getting our peers (who will not have read the
material) to be open to your ideas. We also want to model
your ideas as much as possible. Thank you in advance for
your responses. |
| E-mail: | noreenetc@earthlink.net |
| Organization: | Renaissance School |
| Location: | Parker Colorado |
| How the site was found: |
Attended a lecture |
| Comments: | looking for other non-graded, multi-age
schools. |
| Date: | Wed Apr 9 07:56:50 2003 |
| Name: | Jack Hartsfield |
| E-mail: | jackgail@charter.net |
| Organization: | public schools |
| Location: | Fort Worth, TX |
| How the site was found: |
I did a search for Alfie Kohn |
| Comments: | I have been in public education for 26
years -- the last 18 as a principal. At this time, I am
leaving the principalship and the district I am working
for and attempting to go back into the classroom. I just
looked up this web site in order to get some moral
support -- to know that there are people out there who
don't believe that standerized testing is the answer to
society's woes or that bribing kids is a healthy concept.
Thanks for the opportunity to vent a little. |
| Date: | Wed Apr 9 06:21:41 2003 |
| Name: | irfan |
| E-mail: | onay |
| Organization: | turkish society for quality |
| Location: | istanbul |
| How the site was found: |
amazon.com |
| Comments: | Ive read no contest long time ago then
red your articles. I fully agree with you on fatal
consequences of extrinsic "motivators". I only
want to add my observation that for many people(if not
all) incentive programs is even humiliating since it has
the message that"you people can only deliver your
best with some form of bribe" thx again alfie for
destroying myths with scientific approach |
| Date: | Tue Apr 8 22:12:24 2003 |
| Name: | Eric Warren Severson |
| E-mail: | ewsev2@conncoll.edu |
| Organization: | The Human Race |
| Location: | Planet Earth |
| How the site was found: |
I looked for it on yahoo.com after reading one of Mr. Kohn's books |
| Comments: | The most profound statement in your book, I feel, was the page where you state that one should drive down the highway and try to imagine a real human being in the driver's seat of each oncoming car, and look into people's eyes and truly try to reach a state of empathy and understanding. If we could all learn to do this, everything from professional boxing to spousal abuse to war and terrorism could be replaced by a more humane order. Keep up the good fight, -Eric |
| Date: | Mon Apr 7 17:43:16 2003 |
| Name: | Amanda Conrad |
| E-mail: | lamsc@choice.net |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| How the site was found: |
Friend |
| Comments: | Great Stuff! |
| Date: | Sun Apr 6 14:02:19 2003 |
| Name: | Nicky Campbell-Allen |
| E-mail: | mailto:redsquare%20@inspire.net.nz |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | New Zealand |
| How the site was found: |
via the author details at the back of a book |
| Comments: | Hi there, I am in the process of reading
your book titled "Punished by Rewards" and am
finding it highly intriguing. At present I am completing
a Masters Degree and came accross this book during a
literature search. My thesis is on best practices in
reward and recognition and your comments have certainly
given me a lot of food for thought. I am interested in
any other articles (yours or others)that you may be able
to send. One thing I do note is that (I guess as your
book eludes to) that the mamority of the comments below
are from teachers and educationalists as opposed to
managers and leaders in business. |
| Date: | Sat Apr 5 08:53:55 2003 |
| Name: | Phillip Stockard |
| E-mail: | philmarii@aol.com |
| Organization: | student |
| Location: | Augusta, GA |
| How the site was found: |
Internet sites from a Reality Therapy article |
| Comments: | please schedule a visit to Georgia,
soon! |
| Date: | Sat Apr 5 08:53:11 2003 |
| Name: | Phillip Stockard |
| E-mail: | philmarii@aol.com |
| Organization: | student |
| Location: | Augusta, GA |
| How the site was found: |
Internet sites from a Reality Therapy article |
| Comments: | please schedule a visit to Georgia,
soon! |
| Date: | Fri Apr 4 22:11:22 2003 |
| Name: | Dana Sherman |
| E-mail: | Dlynnshman@aol.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: |
Lecture at MJC in Modesto, Ca. |
| Comments: | Great Lecture, helpful website,
intriguing concept. Thanks for taking the time to travel
to Modesto, to lecture. |
| Date: | Fri Apr 4 21:21:56 2003 |
| Name: | Johanna Green |
| E-mail: | travel@safeplace.net |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Philadelphia |
| How the site was found: |
listed in journal article |
| Comments: | If I were a doctor with a terminally ill
patient who wanted to pursue assisted suicide, I would
not send him to Dr. Kavorkian, I would give him your
article, "Beyond Discipline," and then send him
to teach in an inner-city school. I taught public school
in one of the worst neighborhoods of Philadelphia for
three years and the only reason that I have lived to tell
about it is because of the direction of my mentor to
implement Lee Cantor's Assertive Discipline. I fought him
tooth and nail, he shoved it down my throat, in the end I
only tried it to prove him wrong, and darn it, it
worked!! My students had been under my old system from
September to March, I had written my first year of
teaching off thinking I would try again with a new batch
of kids in the fall, but the assertive discipline model
actually enabled me to teach instead of dodge spitballs
and the kids actually learned something. The following
year the principal sent new teachers to observe my
classes as a positive model for classroom management and
when I moved to the suburbs a few years later I became a
mentor teacher. And yes, as a mentor teacher, I have seen
assertive discipline turn the most unruly
classrooms(which, contrary to popular belief, do exist in
wealthy, affluent suburban school districts when no or a
touchy-feely system of discipline is in effect) into
centers of learning. |
| Date: | Fri Apr 4 11:07:37 2003 |
| Name: | Donne Copenhaver |
| E-mail: | docopenh@ashland-city.k12.oh.us |
| Organization: | Ashland Alternative School |
| Location: | Ashland, OH |
| How the site was found: |
Colleague Referal |
| Comments: | PLEASE SCHEDULE A LECTURE IN OHIO, AND
E-MAIL ME ASAP WHEN YOU HAVE DONE SO!!! |
| Date: | Fri Apr 4 10:58:07 2003 |
| Name: | Donne Copenhaver |
| E-mail: | docopenh@ashland-city.k12.oh.us |
| Organization: | Ashland Alternative School |
| Location: | Ashland, OH |
| How the site was found: |
Colleague Referal |
| Comments: | This site is remarkable. It's a great
resource and educational tool for myself and the rest of
the teachers with whom I work. I plan on sharing the site
with them and all the wonderful insights found within the
site. Thanks for making it available. |
| Date: | Thu Apr 3 16:53:48 2003 |
| Name: | andreas horaites |
| E-mail: | andreas_horaites |
| Organization: | southern oregon education service district |
| Location: | 101 N Grape St. Medford, OR 97501 |
| How the site was found: |
I read Jerry Becker's piece online |
| Comments: | I wish to extend my warmest
professional's hug to Alfie Kohn. I would love to know
when he will be speaking next in Oregon. His message is
so very right on topic. |
| Date: | Thu Apr 3 16:47:09 2003 |
| Name: | Shelley Mayfield |
| E-mail: | smayfiel@sierranevada.edu |
| Organization: | Sierra Nevada College |
| Location: | Lake Tahoe, Calif. |
| How the site was found: |
Proffesor |
| Comments: | |
| Date: | Thu Apr 3 11:30:29 2003 |
| Name: | sheila ann thompson |
| E-mail: | rsthompson@tc3net.com |
| Organization: | student teacher |
| Location: | adrian mi. head start |
| How the site was found: |
a teacher |
| Comments: | |
| Date: | Wed Apr 2 13:52:22 2003 |
| Name: | M. Stowe |
| E-mail: | mestowe@mail.dps.k12.va.us |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: |
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| Comments: | Just came from a child study committee,
two names kept coming to mind Kohn and Wong. |
| Date: | Tue Apr 1 18:21:43 2003 |
| Name: | Susan Olson |
| E-mail: | catpaws@acadia.net |
| Organization: | MSAD #34 |
| Location: | Belfast, Maine 04915 |
| How the site was found: |
Graduate class article |
| Comments: | Read your article "But Not
Quite" which was published in the ASCD leadership
journal. I am a kindergarten teacher and want to do it
right. Your article told me all the things I am doing
wrong, but offered no alternatives. What is the right
language to use with children? What should I be doing in
my classroom? Please help - I have been teaching for 29
years, and would like to get it "right" before
I retire! |
| Date: | Tue Apr 1 13:45:06 2003 |
| Name: | Jonathan Erwin |
| E-mail: | jerwin1@stny.rr.com |
| Organization: | Choice Consulting |
| Location: | Corning, NY |
| How the site was found: |
Searched |
| Comments: | I would be interested in any additional
information or research further supporting Dr. Kohn's
work re: The Schools Our Children Deserve and Punished by
Rewards. Keep up the great work!!! Jon E |
| Date: | Mon Mar 31 15:22:14 2003 |
| Name: | joette Weber |
| E-mail: | weberj@ohiou.edu |
| Organization: | OU |
| Location: | athens, ohio |
| How the site was found: |
on the back of one of Kohn's books |
| Comments: | So, Mr.Kohn, I am sitting here the night
before I begin teaching the reading assessment course to
undergrades. Of course I will include your lecture on
tape from C-Span, the Fair Test Examiner and the latest
publications from Hein. by Coles and Flippo, the Ohanian
site... What am I forgetting or not aware of? ps. I am
more comfortable in my Reading Recovery position all
morning at my local elem. school of 90% free/reduce lunch
qualifiers than these preservice educators that badly
need inspiration! Anyone out there teach at the college
level with some words of wisdom? Joette |
| Date: | Mon Mar 31 06:11:08 2003 |
| Name: | richemonde domond-badaud |
| E-mail: | abadaua@aol.com |
| Organization: | MDCS |
| Location: | Florida |
| How the site was found: |
wilson website |
| Comments: | |
| Date: | Sun Mar 30 14:11:07 2003 |
| Name: | Joy Bartlett |
| E-mail: | jobart@bigvalley.net |
| Organization: | Modesto City Schools |
| Location: | Modesto, CA |
| How the site was found: |
Lecture on 3/29/03 |
| Comments: | Thank you for coming to Modesto. I
enjoyed your lecture and will be trying to empliment more
of your "working with kids" ideas. |
| Date: | Sun Mar 30 00:05:15 2003 |
| Name: | Camille Howe |
| E-mail: | chowe@lcisd.org |
| Organization: | Lamar CISD |
| Location: | Beasley, TX |
| How the site was found: |
Foreword to Ohanian's book |
| Comments: | Mr. Kohn, I am an education major, and
mother of 3. I work for the local school district in an
accounting capacity for now. I have been active with PTO,
Gifted and Talented programs, Volunteers in Public
Schools, Boy Scouts and local volunteer efforts in
education. My research paper is based on the premise of
Ohanian's book, that the over-emphasis on standardized
testing is detrimental to the education of our children.
In better terms, it is a lack of a well-rounded
education. TAAS/TAKS scores have increased in Texas over
the past few years, but college entrance exam scores have
gone down. The move of reading levels downward from one
grade to the next is insane. I just want to thank you for
your efforts, as I can see by your enthusiastic and
numerous articles and books. I am hoping to use some of
your work to support my thesis and possibly take my
written research to my local school board. Unfortunately,
in Texas, we started several years ago what Bush is now
passing on at a Federal level. Thank you for your time
and effort in this very important struggle we face as
parents, educators and citizens. Sincerly, Camille Howe |
| Date: | Sat Mar 29 18:54:25 2003 |
| Name: | Mary Zilko |
| E-mail: | MZilko@optonline.net |
| Organization: | H.S. Counselor |
| Location: | Long Island, NY |
| How the site was found: |
Professor in Ed. Administration |
| Comments: | Alfie Kohn is able to articulate
everything I've ever known intrinsically. As a H.S.
Counselor, I've watched my students become increasing
frustrated, lose their self-esteem, and frequently in
serious consideration of dropping out. GED's are becoming
their only alternative. As a parent of a junior and
freshman in H.S., I've watched my boys lose their
interest in learning. They are tired of being tested to
death, and view school as a punishment, with the
exception of the social and athletic activities. They
shouldn't have to dread school. If Department of
Education and schools in general would ony listen to the
teachings of Alfie Kohn, we would have a great education
system. I only wish the educators of yesterday had taken
a stand against the whole testing movement. Now it is up
to those of us who understand the concept of Alfie Kohn
to turn things around. Having read his newest book,
"The Truth About Testing" I am empowered to
spread the word about the myths of standardized tests. It
provides hands-on strategies to implement a movement
against testing. It IS possible to make a change in our
education system, so that children develop a "love
of learning"... Until that time, the drop-out rates
will continue, violence will grow, and our children will
continue to have social problems, and poor self-esteem.
They shoud be taught to think on their feet and feel good
about themselves. It can be done. Thank you, Alfie. |
| Date: | Sat Mar 29 15:06:34 2003 |
| Name: | troylana manson |
| E-mail: | troylanam@msn.com |
| Organization: | life long learners inc.! |
| Location: | modesto california for now...? |
| How the site was found: |
prior knowledge |
| Comments: | i saw alfie today....its been a year
since he last disturbed me ...i like being in that
state...helps propell me in a direction to define my
values and understand the global community .....!!!??? |
| Date: | Sat Mar 29 14:23:40 2003 |
| Name: | Marsha Kidd |
| E-mail: | |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Modesto, California |
| How the site was found: |
Heard Dr. Kohn speak today |
| Comments: | Thrilled, inspired to be a loving
grandmother. Thank you. |
| Date: | Fri Mar 28 12:47:00 2003 |
| Name: | Nader El Badry |
| E-mail: | Naderelbadry@Hotmail.com |
| Organization: | Agriculture Research Centre |
| Location: | Egypt, Giza |
| How the site was found: |
By searching |
| Comments: | The latest updated materials for
Principales in Chemistry. Thanks... |
| Date: | Thu Mar 27 19:26:32 2003 |
| Name: | Elizabeth Willoughby |
| E-mail: | missusliz@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | None |
| Location: | Clinton Township, MI |
| How the site was found: |
sought it out |
| Comments: | I am interested in spearheading a
campaign in my school district to oppose the current use
of standardized testing. My children are not yet of the
age to attend school, but I am looking toward the future.
I am also working towards a master's in teaching. After
researching the topic of standardized testing, I am in
"shock and awe" (borrowing this, lol). I have
only some substitute teaching experience, so the
day-to-day goings on in the educational environment are
as foreign to me as a parent of a student. Why am I being
taught constructivism, theories on Dewey's democratic
education, and inquiry-based learning techniques when, it
seems to me, I will forced by an 'aligned curriculum' to
revert back to traditional techniques? How abhorrently
dissapointing. I believe the general public is unaware of
the consequences of standards-based testing. They need to
be informed, how to do it? |
| Date: | Tue Mar 25 12:17:45 2003 |
| Name: | Thomas P.Powers |
| E-mail: | tompowers@worldnet.att.net |
| Organization: | attorney,representing public school administrators'unions |
| Location: | Maryland |
| How the site was found: |
newspaper article |
| Comments: | I am interested in articles or any
publications that examine the harm being done
administrators and teachers by the santions and potential
sanctions for perceived violations of stadardized test
procedures or protocols.If you know of any please
advise--thanks. |
| Date: | Tue Mar 25 05:54:49 2003 |
| Name: | bill necoechea |
| E-mail: | billnec@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: |
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| Comments: | This message will probably not have much
of an impact on either you or your readers, but I will
say it anyway. I am not writing to object to your
educational philosophy, but to what seems to be your
undelying political philosophy, and (even more so) to how
it is presented. I am responding, in particular, to your
tendency to make hyperbolic statements, usually of an
anti-U.S. character. Usually this would not merit much
attention (it is fairly common among the radical left,
who are certainly well-represented in educational
phiolosophy), but the U.S. is currently at war, and I
think it needs an active defense. You have a tendency to
exaggerate in general, but the three worst (and most
offensive) examples are: (i) in your essay on September
11, (ii) in your book "The Schools our Children
Deserve," and in one of your articles criticizing
standardized testing. In (i), you spend a great deal of
time cataloguing the "evils" of the U.S., but
you fail to mention the fact that the U.S. was largely
responsible for defeating fascism, rebuilding large parts
of Western Europe and Japan after World War II, and, in
general, tends to provide (on average, and by world
standards) a high standard of living and personal freedom
for its citizens (including Alfie Kohn). These facts
would certainly add to your analysis. In (ii), you refer
to the flag salute (in one of your early chapters) as a
"salute to the fatherland". This sounds like a
comparison of the U.S. to the militarized Germany of the
1930's and 1940's. If this is supposed to be funny, it is
not. If it represents your sincere political beliefs,
well, that is more frightening. In (iii), you refer to
standardized testing as a type of "educational
ethnic cleansing." Certainly, one can have a
rational debate on the pros and cons of testing, but
"educational ethnic cleansing." Once again, I
seem to see a very flawed analogy: do you really mean to
make a comparison to the mass-killings in the former
Yugoslavia during the 1990's? There comes a point at
which rhetorical tricks cross the line: this statement
has the simultaneous effect of exaggerating an issue
which is debatable (standardized testing), and minimizinf
a more serious issue (mass klling in Serbia). In you
article "In defense of progressive schools",
you wax about the value of producing "ethically
sophisticated" students, but if these are examples
of your ethical sophistication, it is questionable. In
conclusion, I will quote a person (Senator Daniel P.
Moynihan) who says it better than I do. "Am I
embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy?
Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are
societies that are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think
ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of
human relations the world has? Yes, I do." |
| Date: | Mon Mar 24 19:36:26 2003 |
| Name: | debbie fraser |
| E-mail: | debbie_fraser63@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | Tertiary Student |
| Location: | Dunedin, New Zealand |
| How the site was found: |
By enquiring about Alfie Kohn on the web |
| Comments: | |
| Date: | Mon Mar 24 09:15:11 2003 |
| Name: | REBECCA BEYER |
| E-mail: | rebeccabeyer@excite.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Chicago, IL |
| How the site was found: |
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| Comments: | |
| Date: | Sat Mar 22 17:02:24 2003 |
| Name: | Syd Korsunsky |
| E-mail: | skor11@shaw.ca |
| Organization: | Pembina Trails School Division |
| Location: | Winnipeg |
| How the site was found: |
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| Comments: | Mr. Kohn, After reading books and
articles, and changing my classroom assessment practices
to fit so many of the ideas you espouse, and I support,
it was an honour to finally hear you in person. Your
message was so inspiring. I had the privilege of
presenting, with 8 of my students, later that afternoon,
and it was great to see that when my kids spoke, they
almost always prefaced their comments with "As Alfie
said this morning . . ." (they also had the
privilege of hearing you speak, and they were so
impressed that so many of the principles you discussed
were in place in their classroom last year). The best
compliment we received was when one teacher asked us how
we were able to align our little presentation so closely
to yours. Although the theme of our presentation was
"how revision raises the quality of writing",
it was really about how much they value authentic
response to their writing, and how if I do grade it,
which I only do when it comes to report cards, it is
never a final mark. And the clincher was when teachers
asked them why they would keep revising work, even when
they had received a grade of 100%. "Because it
matters to us what we write about - the grade has nothing
to do with it." And this from a group of students
from upper middle class homes that admit that prior to
last year, they were "mark addicts." To hear
you speak, and then hear them afterwards, reaffirmed for
me our commitment to fighting against all those practices
that reduce work to a meaningless number on a page. Thank
you for that, and for being one of the only voices out
there for us. Finally, I want to thank you for your
"bird's nest" reference. The speakers who
followed you, supposedly with a similar philosophy,
seemed to place assessment strategies at the forefront of
teaching. I love how you place the learners first, and
encourage us to use strategies that truly enhance their
learning. Sincerely, Syd Korsunsky |
| Date: | Sat Mar 22 15:21:27 2003 |
| Name: | Sharon Canadine |
| E-mail: | canadine@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | Teacher |
| Location: | El Paso, Texas |
| How the site was found: |
Dr. Cesar Rossatto |
| Comments: | I firmly agree with your website and
information. I am an educator and throughout my degrees,
multiple intelligence and allowing multiple ways to
assess a child has always been supported. Why not with
this test! |
| Date: | Sat Mar 22 15:21:14 2003 |
| Name: | Sharon Canadine |
| E-mail: | canadine@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | Teacher |
| Location: | El Paso, Texas |
| How the site was found: |
Dr. Cesar Rossatto |
| Comments: | I firmly agree with your website and
information. I am an educator and throughout my degrees,
multiple intelligence and allowing multiple ways to
assess a child has always be supported. Why not with this
test! |
| Date: | Sat Mar 22 09:21:31 2003 |
| Name: | eleonora scoppa |
| E-mail: | scoppaele@virgilio.it |
| Organization: | scuola media |
| Location: | napoli |
| How the site was found: |
meeting about valutation |
| Comments: | should you be so kind to make me know
news about valutation and autovalutation in scuola
media.many thanks! |
| Date: | Thu Mar 20 07:16:28 2003 |
| Name: | Robert Stevens |
| E-mail: | bob.stevens@cesu.k12.vt.us |
| Organization: | Mt. Mansfield Union High School |
| Location: | Jericho, Vermont |
| How the site was found: |
NASSP-Principal Leadership article |
| Comments: | Dear Mr. Kohn, I am a high school
principal at Mt. Mansfield Union High School in Jericho,
Vermont. I have been at this school for 20 years and have
been an educator for 32 years. I am always looking to
challenge myself and those around me. I really enjoyed
your article in Principal Leadership. Are you available
to speak in our state? I am thinking first about my
school/district, but I also believe it might be
interesting to make your presentation available to our
state. As the NASSP state coordinator and member of our
Vermont Principals Executive Council, I can see several
potential audiences. First and foremost-are you available
and what would your fees be? Thank you. Bob Stevens |
| Date: | Wed Mar 19 10:49:47 2003 |
| Name: | Leslie Stallard |
| E-mail: | lstall@btsn.com |
| Organization: | btsn, inc. |
| Location: | Kitchener |
| How the site was found: |
google search |
| Comments: | Saw Mr. Kohn on Rogers Cable Podium
series on TV. What a fascinating concept! As he spoke, I
could easily think of examples supporting his
viewpoint--i.e., humans are so comparatively fragile, we
could not have survived as a species without cooperating
with each other. Excellent! |
| Date: | Mon Mar 17 18:22:41 2003 |
| Name: | Anne-Marie |
| E-mail: | cchoice@froggy.com.au |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Sydney |
| How the site was found: |
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| Comments: | Hi there, I was wondering if you could
send me the location for all Steiner Schools in NSW.
Thanks Anne-Marie |
| Date: | Mon Mar 17 02:10:51 2003 |
| Name: | Alex |
| E-mail: | ec@optimates.us |
| Organization: | http://www.optimates.us/conservative_books.htm |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: |
Web |
| Comments: | Conservatives have always been more
educated and cultured than liberals -- and we need to
keep it that way. Check out [our] conservative
Great-Books reading list. Alex Cambridge, MA |
| Date: | Sun Mar 16 16:27:04 2003 |
| Name: | Dr. Howard Sage |
| E-mail: | nnewsgnews@earthlink.com |
| Organization: | Sage Directions |
| Location: | New York, New York |
| How the site was found: |
P.S. 9 Yahoo group |
| Comments: | |
| Date: | Fri Mar 14 01:53:52 2003 |
| Name: | bernie mcdonough |
| E-mail: | bernie_mcdonough@antiochsea.edu |
| Organization: | antioch university seattle |
| Location: | seattle, wa |
| How the site was found: |
link from seattle school district |
| Comments: | please let me know about upcoming
seattle events--can i register? |
| Date: | Thu Mar 13 10:19:48 2003 |
| Name: | Sarah Miller |
| E-mail: | sarah_miller@cps.ci.cambridge.ma.us |
| Organization: | Cambridge Public Schools |
| Location: | Cambridge, MA |
| How the site was found: |
through a search for "alfie kohn" |
| Comments: | Your material is wonderful. I want to be
challenged by it and to grow, and yet I am often left
with the feeling that I have nothing left to stand on and
that is very uncomfortable. But I love your work. Thank
you. |
| Date: | Wed Mar 12 10:55:42 2003 |
| Name: | Craig Morgan |
| E-mail: | craigm@509j.net |
| Organization: | Jefferson Country School Distict 509J |
| Location: | Madras, Oregon |
| How the site was found: |
I got the info at a recent conference |
| Comments: | Thanks for the message that you give at
a keynote address this past Monday in Portland, Oregon.
Even though I have done many of the things that you
talked about over the years, I was not able to put it
into words. You have enabled me to "codify" my
teaching practice and philosophy. I was greatly
encouraged by your address. Thanks so much!! |
| Date: | Wed Mar 12 05:03:02 2003 |
| Name: | kawaljit singh |
| E-mail: | kawalhot@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | london school of commerce |
| Location: | london |
| How the site was found: |
in google.com |
| Comments: | |
| Date: | Tue Mar 11 13:09:36 2003 |
| Name: | James Bishop |
| E-mail: | gatorjim871@msn.com |
| Organization: | Orange County Public Schools |
| Location: | Orlando, Fl |
| How the site was found: |
I searched the internet for items relating to Alfie Kohn |
| Comments: | |
| Date: | Fri Mar 7 06:25:44 2003 |
| Name: | Lisa Prothero |
| E-mail: | http//www.LisaProthero@msn.com |
| Organization: | 11 grade student @Pontiac central highschool |
| Location: | pontiac |
| How the site was found: |
Jordan Nash (from WestBloomfield HighSchool) |
| Comments: | School is hard for us all. Oh like test
days, we struggle to pass.It's like a nightmare that we
want to go away. How can a test not make us worry or be
stress out? I have been woundering the same question as
you.The MEAP is alot of work they say we will give you 60
minutes for the practice test but really they only give
you 35 minutes for the day.So how do we make this not
stressful.There are alot of students wanting to read all
the material, but doesn't have enought time to complete
the questions.So I would like to know what to do.If you
have the answer please email me at
Http//www.LisaProthero@msn.com |
| Date: | Thu Mar 6 20:10:21 2003 |
| Name: | Diane Landis |
| E-mail: | landisdiane@hotmail.com |
| Organization: | none |
| Location: | chula vista california |
| How the site was found: |
looked in google for Alfie Kohn |
| Comments: | Alfie Kohn, you are 1000% correct in all
you say. I've been a teacher for many years, trying to
"buck the built-in system" in the schools--so
difficult, but I keep trying. It's actually quite fun to
see what I can get away with sometimes. Keep writing and
speaking, please -- you inspire us. How do you keep your
spirits up when it must at times feel like you are
banging your head against a brick wall? For our kids'
sake, I hope we all live to see things change. |
| Date: | Thu Mar 6 06:00:36 2003 |
| Name: | Paola Buisegna |
| E-mail: | bispao@fastwebnet.it |
| Organization: | CGIL Scuola-Proteo Fare Sapere |
| Location: | Rome-Italy |
| How the site was found: |
Reading The case against... |
| Comments: | I will be reporting about this book and
its message to a group of 300 teachers and heads, and I
would appreciate a message of support or
"hello" from A.Kohn to this National Seminar on
Evaluation taking place in Italy Paestum, March 20-21
Thank you very much, I really appreciate what you
denounce Paola Bisegna |
| Date: | Wed Mar 5 10:04:27 2003 |
| Name: | Jack Hartsfield |
| E-mail: | jackgail@charter.net |
| Organization: | schools |
| Location: | Fort Worth |
| How the site was found: |
article |
| Comments: | |
| Date: | Wed Mar 5 09:18:40 2003 |
| Name: | alan mandell |
| E-mail: | alan.mandell@esc.edu |
| Organization: | State University of New York: Empire State College |
| Location: | New York, New York |
| How the site was found: |
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| Comments: | Good morning. I am not sure how the site
works, but I searched for it as a part of my effort to
locate materials relevant to a debate at my institution
regarding "grades" and adult learners. We are
institution that, for many years, has used narrative
evaluations. There is a strong move in the direction of
shorter narratives and grades. As a faculty member, I
feel strongly that such a change will alter our culture
and our communication with our students, but I have been
unable to locate any research (or systematic thinking) on
the topic. Because I am generally familiar with AK's
work, I thought he (or someone!) might have an idea of a
direction for my searching that would be constructive. If
anyone has any ideas about this, I would appreciate them
very much. Regards, Alan |
| Date: | Sat Mar 1 23:09:46 2003 |
| Name: | Perry Kalynuk |
| E-mail: | pkalynuk@escape.ca |
| Organization: | educator, Fort La Bosse School Division |
| Location: | Virden, Manitoba |
| How the site was found: |
reference from Dewryn Davies, Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Comments: | Dear Alfie, In my role as a public
school teacher (34 years) in rural Manitoba, I agree
whole heartly with the major premises of your writings.
As a coach, teacher, parent, summer business owner, and
community leader I agree that the best way we can teach
good citizenship is by emulating good citizenship
ourselves. It was the cynical, right wing, 'blame the
public institutions' approach of our last provincial
Conservative govn't that got me angry enough to get
involved in provincial politics. I look forward to seeing
you in Winnipeg on March 20th. Sincerely, Perry Kalynuk,
NDP candidate for the next provincial election |
| Date: | Sat Mar 1 19:13:39 2003 |
| Name: | Ann Bussee |
| E-mail: | abussee@pe.net |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | Riverside, CA |
| How the site was found: |
info from a fellow teacher |
| Comments: | I was energized and inspired by your
forward in Ohanian's book, WHAT HAPPENED TO RECESS... |
| Date: | Sat Mar 1 11:56:26 2003 |
| Name: | Chris Halpin |
| E-mail: | halpinc@middletownk12.org |
| Organization: | Navesink Elementary School |
| Location: | Middletown, New Jersey |
| How the site was found: |
Looked for it. |
| Comments: | I hve been an educator for 40+ years and
an administrator for 20+. I am a Constructivist through
and through. I will not tire of the battle despite the
fact that I recognize I am being totally quixotic. |
| Date: | Fri Feb 28 15:28:41 2003 |
| Name: | Heather Vanover |
| E-mail: | basketball_princess20@msn.com |
| Organization: | |
| Location: | |
| How the site was found: |
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| Comments: | how do u take a test without bein at
school?????????????HELP!!!!!!!!!!Please email me if u
know hoe |
| Date: | Wed Feb 26 19:58:12 2003 |
| Name: | Bev Hall |
| E-mail: | jbhall@gate-way.ca |
| Organization: | none |
| Location: | Cambridge |
| How the site was found: |
From my daughter Laura |
| Comments: | I would like to read your thoughts on
standardized testing in the public schools in Ontario |
| Date: | Wed Feb 26 14:51:55 2003 |
| Name: | Renee |
| E-mail: | aliens4us2@yahoo.com |
| Organization: | none |
| Location: | WV |
| How the site was found: |
other website (nomoretest.com) |
| Comments: | Hello....No More Tests! I'm fired up and
ready to make a big move. |