Kohn to Discuss 'Achievement-Crazy Culture’
Alfie Kohn
Time magazine described Alfie Kohn as “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades (and) test scores.” Kohn, the author of The Schools Our Children Deserve and many other books on education and human behavior, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 5, at Giffels Auditorium at the University of Arkansas.
The event is free and open to the public.
Kohn’s topic is “Pushed Too Hard: Rescuing Education From an Achievement-Crazy Culture.” He invites parents, teachers and others to rethink basic assumptions about competition, school achievement and the relationship between how we’re raising our kids and how we hope they will turn out.
Kohn is presented by the Center for Children and Youth, the Brown Chair in English Literacy, College of Education and Health Professions Dean Tom Smith, the interdisciplinary doctoral program in public policy, the department of curriculum and instruction, the Northwest Arkansas Writing Project and Springdale Public Schools.
Contacts
Heidi Wells, director of communications
College of Education and Health Professions
479-575-3138,
heidisw@uark.edu
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