Herbert Kohl

"I Won't Learn From You," Herb Kohl's now-classic essay on "not learning," or refusing to learn, is available for the first time in an affordable paperback edition along with four other landmark essays. Drawing on an idea of Martin Luther King Jr.'s, Kohl argues for "creative maladjustment" in the classroom and anywhere else that students' intelligence, dignity, or integrity are compromised by a teacher, an institution, or a larger social mindset. This volume also includes "The Tattooed Man," Kohl's autobiographical essay about "hopemongering," which Kohl finds essential for all effective teaching in these difficult times.

With selections from Kohl's classic 36 Children, the award-winning The View from the Oak and other well-known books, this reader is a major resource for teachers and parents. The excerpts featured span Kohl's entire career and include his practical as well as his theoretical writings on education. In more than 40 books on subjects ranging from social justice to mathematics, and from morality to parenthood, Kohl has truly earnt his reputation as the foremost US educator.

A revised edition of the prizewinning educator's collection of essays challenging some of the chestnuts of children's literature. Highlights instances of racism, sexism and condescension that detract from the tales being told and strategies are provided for detecting bias in stories written for young people, along with ways of teaching kids to think critically about what they read. Includes essays on Pinocchio, the history of progressive education and a call for the writing of more radical children's literature.

The Discipline of Hope chronicles veteran educator Herb Kohl's love affair with teaching since his first encounter forty years ago, chronicled in his now-classic 36 Children. Beginning with his years in New York public schools and continuing throughout his four decades of working with students from kindergarten through college across the country, Kohl has been an ardent advocate of the notion that every student can learn and every teacher must find creative ways to facilitate that learning. In The Discipline of Hope he distills the major lessons of an attentive lifetime in the classroom.

Vito Perrone invites you on an inspirational journey into Leonard Covello's classic memoir, The Heart Is the Teacher (1958). Covello's autobiographical book is one of education's important histories, and Perrone's text reestablishes a crucial connection to that history. During his 45 years as a teacher and principal in the New York City Public Schools, Covello and a group of dedicated teachers, parents, and students created one of the first urban community schools—Benjamin Franklin Community High School in East Harlem—concerned not only with academic programs but with the special needs of immigrant children. By returning to Leonard Covello's work and educational commitments, Perrone calls attention to matters of great urgency in the schools today: the "new" immigrants, intercultural education, advocacy for students and families, a curriculum of place, and the community school. Perrone's reflective essay, reproduced with significant sections of Covello's own text (long unavailable to the public), makes Teacher with a Heart a unique account of how one of today's most respected voices in educational reform has been touched and changed by an extraordinary reformer from the past.