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1	Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A'S, Praise and Other Bribes more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist An acclaimed author and lecturer indicts the practice of manipulating people with external incentives. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Kohn points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of doing things to them. An argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist Author Alfie Kohn believes that most traditional methods meant to change children's bad behavior are about parental control and conditional love. With the support of extensive research, he suggests that youngsters are hurt by the system of rewards and punishments for good and bad behavior. He believes that unconditional love is essential to a ... see all copies from $5.71! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards" more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist Author Alfie Kohn discusses why standardized testing is a dangerous practice--instead of helping students become active thinkers, the tests make students "walking repositories of knowledge;" they merely memorize and answer questions by rote. He also posits that standardized testing does not prepare students for the real world, nor does it allow ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist This book questions the assumption that classroom problems are always the fault of students who don't do what they are told. New classroom management techniques are not the answer, he says. Instead, we must reconsider what we're telling students to do and to learn. He shows how a fundamentally cynical view of children lies beneath the assumption ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.30! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist This work is a compelling expose of homework - its negative effects, why it's so widely accepted, and what we can do about it. Whilst they're free of many of the worries of adulthood, one of the inevitable downsides faced by kids is the idea that after spending the day at school, they must complete more academic assignments once they're home. The ... see all copies from $4.49! new only from $4.89! \| SVS
6	No Contest: The Case Against Competition more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist Updated for the 1990s, the award-winning book that stands as the definitive critique of competition. Kohn says that contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to "human nature", but actually poisons our relationships, damages our self-esteem, and holds us back from doing our best. Includes new matial on "cooperative learning" in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated?: And Other Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist Alfie Kohn has written eloquently about many education issues, particularly his opposition to the use of standardized tests in schools. Now he enlarges his scope in a collection of essays that examine certain basic assumptions about learning, pondering the qualities that make a school effective, assessing the various methods of judging a student's ... see all copies from $4.85! new only from $9.76! \| SVS
8	The Homework Myth: Why Our Children Get Too Much of a Bad Thing more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist A compelling expose of homework - its negative effects, why it's so widely accepted, and what we can do about it. Whilst they're free of many of the worries of adulthood, one of the inevitable downsides faced by kids is the idea that after spending the day at school, they must complete more academic assignments once they're home. The results are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| first editions
9	Harvard Business Review on Compensation more books like this by Alfred Rappaport, Harvard Business School Press, Alfie Kohn add to wishlist This collection will help managers and human resource professionals weigh the pros and cons of different compensation plans and provide a framework for thinking about this important aspect of the war for talent. The articles discuss a variety of compensation-related issues such as: making salaries public, stock options, executive compensation, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| SVS
10	The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist Kohn's central message is that standardized tests are "not a force of nature but a force of politicsand political decisions can be questioned, challenged, and ultimately reversed." see all copies from $11.75! new only from $21.76! \| SVS
11	Punished by Rewards CL Refer 689156 more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist An acclaimed author and lecturer indicts the practice of manipulating people with external incentives. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Kohn points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of doing things to them. An argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss. see all copies from $2.28! first editions
12 view cover	Learning to Trust: Transforming Difficult Elementary Classrooms Through Developmental Discipline more books like this by Marilyn Watson, Laura Kupper Ecken, Alfie Kohn (Foreword by) add to wishlist Faced with increasing numbers of children who are difficult to manage and the pervasive presence of high stakes testing, many teachers feel frustrated and compelled to reduce their attention to building relationships with and among their students and their focus on social and ethical development. In "Learning to Trust", an educational psychologist ... see all copies from $24.50! new only from $28.38! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	What to Look for in a Classroom: And Other Essays more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist Nineteen commonsense essays from an educator who distrusts many trends and practices in education at the end of the '90s, and who values learning for its own sake as well as for the sake of the student. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	A Brand New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created the First Genetically Engineered Animal more books like this by Tim Birkhead, Alfie Kohn add to wishlist The fascinating story of the hidden world of bird-breeding, of contentious ideas in 1920s Germany, and of two amateur scientists who unwittingly managed to be decades ahead of their time. Long before Dolly the Sheep or bioengineered corn, there was the Red Canary-the first organism to be manipulated by genetic technology, back in the 1920s. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.94! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment more books like this by Maja Wilson, Alfie Kohn (Foreword by) add to wishlist "The book you're about to read is not only a superb analysis of rubrics but a lesson in how to apply careful thinking to classroom practice." - Alfie Kohn, Author of "The Case Against Standardized Testing""This book will create the conversations educators desperately needabout accurate assessment, quality in writing, and informed teaching." - ... see all copies from $27.06! new only from $27.06! \| SVS
16	You Know What They Say: The Truth about Popular Beliefs more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist Everyone knows that boys are better than girls at math, spicy foods upset the stomach while milk is soothing, you should never have sex before the big game, carrots are good for the eyes, and beauty is only skin deep. The only problem with these truisms is that they're false. A captivating look at scores of common beliefs--are they nuggets of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism Empathy in Everyday Life more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist Drawing from hundreds of studies in half a dozen fields, The Brighter Side of Human Nature makes a powerful case that caring and generosity are just as natural as selfishness and aggression. This lively refutation of cynical assumptions about our species considers the nature of empathy and the causes of war, why we (incorrectly) explain all ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.41! \| SVS
18	The Brighter Side of Human Nature more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist Drawing from hundreds of studies in half a dozen fields, The Brighter Side of Human Nature makes a powerful case that caring and generosity are just as natural as selfishness and aggression. This lively refutation of cynical assumptions about our species considers the nature of empathy and the causes of war, why we (incorrectly) explain all ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.46! \| first editions
19	No Contest: The Case Against Competition more books like this by Alfred Kohn, Alfie Kohn add to wishlist the first book to argue that competition is inherently destructive, examining closely the effects of competition and explaining why we ultimately lose in the race to win. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Education, Inc.: Turning Learning Into a Business more books like this by Douglas K Newell, Alfie Kohn (Editor), Patrick Shannon (Editor) add to wishlist The overriding objective of corporations is to maximize profits. From that fact alone we can predict what is likely to happen to the nature and purposes of our schools when business becomes involved in the education of our children. This unique and timely anthology chronicles the extent of that involvement, along with the troubling consequences it ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $31.23! \| SVS
21	Education, Inc.: Turning Learning Into a Business: A Collection of Articles more books like this by Alfie Kohn (Editor) add to wishlist What happens when business gets involved in education? This unique anthology discusses business-led school reform and corporate propaganda in the classroom. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $98.34!
22	The Case Against Standardized Testing more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist see all copies from $6.50!

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