Contents
Introduction. “Well, Duh!”: Obvious Truths That We Shouldn’t Be Ignoring
1. Progressive Education: Why It’s Hard to Beat, But Also Hard to Find
2. Challenging Students—and How to Have More of Them
3. Getting Hit on the Head Lessons
Two: The Nuts and Bolts of Learning
4. It’s Not What We Teach; It’s What They Learn
6. How to Create Nonreaders: Reflections on Motivation, Learning, and Sharing Power
Three: Climate & Connections: How Does School Feel to the Students?
8. The Value of Negative Learning
10. Safety from the Inside Out
Four: The Big Picture: Education Policy
12. Feel-Bad Education: The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
14. When Twenty-First-Century Schooling Just Isn’t Good Enough: A Modest Proposal
15. Debunking the Case for National Standards
Five: Beyond the Schools: Psychological Issues & Parenting
16. Atrocious Advice from Supernanny
17. Parental Love with Strings Attached
18. Why Self-Discipline Is Overrated: The (Troubling) Theory and Practice of Control from Within