Nah. So says author Alfie Kohn in a new book, “The Myth of the Spoiled Child” (Da Capo Books), which promises to use empirical evidence — science! — to disprove what is obvious to everyone ...

Author and lecturer Alfie Kohn is known for being controversial in his critiques of education in the United States. That's exactly why officials at Creative Learning Academy, in partnership with ...

Alfie Kohn is the author, most recently, of "The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom About Children and Parenting," from which this essay is adapted. Cognitive ability ...

Alfie Kohn is the author of eleven books, including The Schools Our Children Deserve, The Case Against Standardized Testing and What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? School reform could take on ...

But Alfie Kohn wants to dissuade parents from making obedience their ultimate goal. Instead, Kohn, who has been writing about parenting and education for more than 20 years, says that parents need to ...

They forget everything they learned for the big test once they turn it in. Such is the mantra of Alfie Kohn. In town Friday to speak at Artel Gallery in downtown Pensacola, Kohn is a prolific ...

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of fourteen books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as ...