Know Power, Know Responsibility: How to Unleash the Potential of Every Child in America

Neither rewards nor punishments can push someone to approach their true potential. In fact, rewards and punishments are significant obstacles to achieving one's potential. That is why our current, compliance-based school model--with its endless array of rewards and punishments--can't lead even some students to their full potential, let alone all students.

The only thing preventing us from having schools that will unleash the potential of every child is the entrenched institutionalization of ...