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Alfie Kohn website.  The site has on-line articles by Kohn.   Click here for a listing Kohn�s books

Susan Ohanian, like Alfie Kohn, speaks with determination against the standards movement.  Her books include:  One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards and Caught in the Middle: Nonstandard Kids and a Killing Curriculum, both published by Heinemann. And her latest, What Happened to Recess and Why are Our Kids Struggling in Kindergarten published by McGraw-Hill.  This book won Notable Books for 2002 recognition from the American School Board Journal.

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory on Alternative Assessment - Alternative assessment.

NCREL Why should assessment be based on a vision of learning? An article from the North Central Regional Laboratory on Learning.

 The National Center for Fair and Open Testing  An organization dedicated to reports regarding testing. This is an advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses, and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally sound.

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Alfie Kohn website.  The site has on-line articles by Kohn.   Click here for a listing Kohn�s books

Susan Ohanian, like Alfie Kohn, speaks with determination against the standards movement.  Her books include:  One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards and Caught in the Middle: Nonstandard Kids and a Killing Curriculum, both published by Heinemann. And her latest, What Happened to Recess and Why are Our Kids Struggling in Kindergarten published by McGraw-Hill.  This book won Notable Books for 2002 recognition from the American School Board Journal.

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory on Alternative Assessment - Alternative assessment.

NCREL Why should assessment be based on a vision of learning? An article from the North Central Regional Laboratory on Learning.

 The National Center for Fair and Open Testing  An organization dedicated to reports regarding testing. This is an advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses, and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally sound.

Books by Alfie Kohn

Kohn, Alfie ed. (2002). Education, Inc.: Turning Learning in a Business. Portsmouth, N.H : Heinemann.

Kohn, Alfie. (2000) The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools. Portsmouth, N.H : Heinemann.

Kohn, Alfie. (1999).The Schools our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and �Tougher Standards.�  Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Kohn, Alfie. (1999). Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community. Assn. for Supervision & Curriculum Development

Kohn, Alfie.  (1993, ).  Punished by Rewards:  The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As, Praise, and Other Bribes.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

 Kohn, Alfie (1992). No Contest: The Case Against Competition. Houghton Mifflin.