Alfie Kohn

Students getting paid to go to school sounds like an amazing incentive for the students and majority of parents, but for some teachers, it’s an outrageous idea. Students shouldn’t get paid for something they are expected to do, especially if it will help them in the future to actually work for what they will earn. Imagine being a parent of a 15-year-old child who comes home with one hundred dollars just from making straight A’s on his/her report card. With that money he/she could start saving…

Someone once said that if they ran a school, they would give the average grades to the students who gave all the right answers for being good parrots but they would give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and talked about them, and then discussed what they learned from them. This quote is the polar opposite of the current American grading system. The students who end up getting the top grades are those who give to right answers without learning any of the material. They repeat…

Subtitle Standardized tests have been around for several years. While other countries do have their own forms of these tests, they are most common in the United States. These tests came around to be used as a form of an accountability system not only for the teachers and students but as the schools as well. The United States has lacked in the area of education for many years and have not raised their ranking. To try to alleviate this situation, standardized testing has become a common mandate…