Feel-Bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling

Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices

Arguing that our schools are currently in the grip of a “cult of rigor”—a confusion of harder with better that threatens to banish both joy and meaningful intellectual inquiry from our classrooms—Alfie Kohn issues a stirring call to rethink our priorities and reconsider our practices.

Kohn’s latest wide-ranging collection of writings will add to his reputation as one of the most incisive thin...