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Friday, April 1, 2011

Alfie Kohn on Huffington Post

Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn Studies Support Rewards, Homework, and Traditional Teaching. Or Do They?

 See him at FSP May 3! 

Posted by Kimberly Simmons at 2:52 PM
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Parenting for Peace - Fall 2011 - Race - October 18th

  • Reserve a Seat At Books As Bridges : Children's Literature in Anti-Racism Education (Free)
  • Register for Educators' Workshop
  • Anne Sibley O'Brien will design and faciliate the program
  • Read Anne's blog
  • Born to Read - Maine Humanities Council Programs
  • The Brown Bookshelf (book blog)
  • Children's and YA books with interracial families
  • Blog : Diversity in YA literature (and middle grade too)
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  • Mitali Perkins blog
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  • Race : Are We So Different?
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  • Social Justice Literature Elementary School
  • Tilbury House Maine publisher
  • Understanding Multiracial America

Alfie Kohn's coming, May 3

  • Register for the Educator's Workshop HERE
  • Alfie Kohn's homepage
  • Kohn on Huffington Post
  • Race To No Where - a documentary about the pressures teens face in our "high achievement culture"
  • Rethinking Homework - an article, reprinted on TeachersNet
  • The Homework Myth - Google Books
  • Unconditional Parenting - one of his major works

Environmental Health Links

  • Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
  • Environmental Health Strategy Center - Maine Based Action & Info
  • Kim's giant list of resources :-)
  • Living Downstream : The Film
  • Ms. Magazine article by Steingraber, linking breast cancer and pollution
  • Sandra Steingraber's bio
  • Skin Deep - what's in your soap anyway?
  • Talking to Children about Climate Change (by Steingraber)
  • Teaching Kids about Toxins -an article in Rethinking Schools
  • The Falling Age of Puberty in U.S. Girls
  • The Toxic SandBox - a book about this topic
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