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Can Everyone Be Excellent? - Alfie Kohn

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The Writings Of Alfie Kohn

NEW YORK TIMES June 16, 2019 Can Everyone Be Excellent? By Alfie Kohn [This is an expanded version of the published article, which was titled “Why Can’t Everyone Get an A?”] I was having dinner with Deborah Meier, the eminent educator, when our conversation turned, as it often does, to school reform. For a generation now, that phrase has come to signify a reliance on top-down, one-size-fits-all mandates for what students must be taught, enforced by high-stakes standardized tests. Debbie and I were both struck by the macho rhetoric — “rigor,” “raising the bar,&#822

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