Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn
Author/lecturer on topics in education, parenting, human behavior Also at @[email protected] (Personal messages more likely to be read on https://t.co/zVID5s3zQu) alfiekohn.org Boston area Joined June 2009-
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Know who loves these practical guides to being more disciplined w/our food shopping? The conglomerates raking in profits from their price hikes & shrinking package sizes: is.gd/zSMgOj. (Just as oil cos. urge us to take individual responsibility for conserving energy.)
"It is what it is": learned helplessness in an impoverished community facing extreme climate change: is.gd/A7za1s. Not so different from shrugging about the GOP's assault on democracy, or surrendering one's privacy to Big Tech: a sense of normalcy purchased at any cost
The #NYTimes has helped me realize that the real victims of Israel's ongoing massacre of Palestinian civilians are the pro-Israel American college students who feel uncomfortable with protests on their campuses.
From the archives: "The Back-to-School-Night Speech We'd Like to Hear"- sort of a Cliff's Notes to progressive education in the form of a fictitious principal's informal remarks to parents: alfiekohn.org/blogs/back-to-…
New research confirms that believing in conspiracy theories is likely to generate a negative attitude toward vaccines (despite overwhelming evidence of their efficacy and safety), but, interestingly, it's even more likely to work the other way around: tinyurl.com/3extfp5v
A psychologist explaining why punishment backfires was interrupted by a skeptical teacher who had been assigned a kid with a police record. "I held him on a short leash to keep him out of trouble. And I know my strictness worked: Right after he left my class he was back in jail!"
US share of the world's population: 4% US share of the world's military spending: 37% (>183 of the other 193 countries combined)(is.gd/BXlkAw) US share of weapons sales: 42% (is.gd/n4aGAi) US share of foreign military bases: 75-85% (is.gd/jwyBu4)
Early-childhood expert Lilian Katz: "Intellectual dispositions may be weakened or even damaged by excessive and premature formal instruction": ow.ly/LxFkd. (That all-important distinction between the intellectual & the merely academic applies to students of all ages.)
Faced with people who are so myopic & absolutist as to equate Biden with Trump - and shrug off the urgency of stopping the GOP's authoritarian cult - I imagine them insisting that vegetarians are also no different from carnivores because both consume carbon-based forms of life.
From worst to best: curriculum designed by... 1) distant authorities 2) the teacher, well in advance 3) the teacher, for these particular students 4) the teacher, WITH these particular students
Jonathan Haidt's latest book on kids recycles his earlier claims about overparenting (widely shared beliefs that I debunked in The Myth of the Spoiled Child: ow.ly/Z5FGe) & adds an indictment of social media that may be on equally shaky ground: is.gd/OG7RAr
Dems: Climate change is a serious threat. Immigrants and trans kids are human beings. Stop cops from shooting unarmed Blacks. GOP: Distribute assault weapons to all white Christians. Install Trump as Pharaoh. Let embryos vote. Media: We're so polarized! Extremists on both sides!
More evidence of spanking's harmful effects: A new longitudinal study of poorer countries confirms that corporal punishment leads to "lower levels of social-emotional competencies," including empathy, self-regulation, and healthy social interactions": tinyurl.com/phzpp3n9
Currently popular idiom that I could do without: "It's almost as if X!", which is a snarky way of saying, "X is obviously true, as even a moron like you should realize."
Alan Schoenfeld observed that very few exercises given to high school math students deserve to be called problems. In this classic article, he describes a geometry class that checks all the boxes for successful teaching...except it involves no real math: is.gd/pEeyOk
"Trump’s conservative defenders are attempting something extraordinary: to politically normalize abnormal psychology. Their sycophancy enables a sickness" - and it's a sickness that may take down our country. This 2017 column is even more relevant today: wapo.st/4aOsQv9
A recent review of research confirms multiple benefits of "looping" - that is, having a teacher stay with a class of students for more than one year: edworkingpapers.com/ai22-590
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I experienced a lot of direct, explicit instruction. I was an A student. I memorized the steps, and was paralyzed as a problem-solver. In other words, I did math without understanding math, right into university. It's one of the greatest tragedies of my schooling career.
Wake up people. This is an emergency. This is what authoritarian thugs and terrorists do. Trump is targeting the President of the United States.
Trump Posts Image of Joe Biden Kidnapped And Bound With Rope Trump signals approval of violent imagery targeting his political opponents meidastouch.com/news/trump-pos…
The core of classical education is that there is one objective Truth (and a bunch of ancient dead white guys discovered), which unfortunately becomes an easy refuge for small, frightened minds.
For a long time, I've been wanting to read a good piece explaining the rise of the classical education movement. Finally, I convinced my editor to let me write the piece myself. In this week's print issue: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
The man who incited a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in order to overturn an election and seize power is explicitly endorsing authoritarian strategies should he return to the White House. That’s the story of the 2024 election. Everything else is mere window dressing.
I have read every single court filing, pleading, and briefing filed by Trump in all four criminal cases and NOT ONE argues that he’s innocent. In every single one he says he did it, but that he’s above the law.
The campaign to depose the presidents of Penn, Harvard + MIT is a campaign to restrict pro-Palestinian speech on campus. If you support it, please have the decency never to sermonize about free speech, academic freedom or cancel culture again.
I've long said that I would stay here till the last lights went out, just so I can tell my descendants about it. But I doubt I'll pay for the privilege.
@alfiekohn those are the only likes I get anymore
@Joe_Roberts01 @JSpaceCanada @MeretzCanada @OrlyNoy @972mag @guardian "... it’s not lost on us that Palestinians never enjoyed the rights that 700,000 Israelis are now marching for." h/t @joelwestheimer @rabbiliz via @OttawaCitizen ottawacitizen.com/opinion/bolton…
This is not an endorsement of GPT-4; it's an indictment of those exams.
🤯🤯Well this is something else. GPT-4 passes basically every exam. And doesn't just pass... The Bar Exam: 90% LSAT: 88% GRE Quantitative: 80%, Verbal: 99% Every AP, the SAT...
Fact check re charters, Hochul & NYC. Some reasons NYC charters out-score publics: they have 1/4-1/3 fewer SPED & ELLs; they teach to the test—often to detriment of kids.Also, some of the best schools eschew most standardized tests. @errollouis NY1
The rewriting of Roald Dahl, like the pulling of Dr. Seuss titles before it, is not the woke left at work. It's the Free Market at work. The stewards aren't asking "What does woke orthodoxy demand?" They're asking "Can we get more ROI on these properties?"
When someone claims it's worth restricting freedom to achieve some other great value, I'll at least hear out the argument. But when someone tries to claim their restrictions ARE freedom, run screaming.
The SOR case builds on the claim that there is a crisis in U.S. achievement--caused by poor instruction. But reading results from the PISA (2018) and PIRLS (2016) international studies show the US doing comparatively well. A need to improve, always. But a crisis?
When we farm out the core content of what passes for the "best" of public education to a profit making engine with no moral compass we play Russian roulette with democracy. Coleman putting profit before principle should not surprise.
The College Board's unwillingness to take a principled stand on anything is by far the least surprising news this year.
Question: If every company on the planet has customer service call volume that is always "higher than expected," aren't their expectations too low?
The guy who named his kid X Æ A-Xii is making fun of pronouns.
The really important thing about Joe Biden falling off his bike is that Clarence Thomas’ wife tried to overthrow the U.S. government
@SilverFoxReturn @alfiekohn @jkwat138 Worked for what? Quieting kids down, sure. Teaching kids to self-regulate? Building a classroom community? Nah.
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