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Kohl, Herbert Ralph was born on August 22, 1937 in Bronx, New York, United States.
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In Stupidity and Tears, renowned educator and National Book Award winner Herbert Kohl offers us a thoughtful and ultimately optimistic meditation on the forces that conspire to keep teachers and students “stupid”—i.e., frustrated and unable to excel in an education system that is clearly failing them. Among the topics explored by Kohl are the pressures of standards based assessments and harrowing sink-or-swim policies, the pain teachers feel when asked to teach against their pedagogical conscience, the development of a capacity to sense how students perceive the world, and the importance of hope and creativity in strengthening the social imagination of students and teachers. A rousing call for common sense in the face of dwindling budgets, crippling state mandates, and injudicious politics, Stupidity and Tears is “vintage Kohl—incisive, funny, reflective, profound . . . a provocation to educators to better teach all our children” (Norman Fruchter, NYU Institute of Education and Social Policy).
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Poetry has the power to move and challenge the reader. It can intensify or even celebrate misery, be cynical or wry, or just laugh outright in an outrageous way. Poetry is as serious and antic as life, and yet reading modern poetry can be shocking to our sense of what language is or must be. In A Grain of Poetry, Herbert Kohl presents a series of guideposts to help everyone read poetry and discover those poems that inform and inspire them. In clear, direct language, he covers all of the essential-but often unchartedpaths to understanding poetry: form and structure, line breaks and pauses, rhythm and melody, imagery, and recitation. Written by one of the country's leading educators, A Grain of Poetry is a comprehensive and accessible guide for all poets, students, and poetry lovers.
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(Poetry has the power to move and challenge the reader. It...)
Poetry has the power to move and challenge the reader. It can intensify or even celebrate misery, be cynical or wry, or just laugh outright in an outrageous way. Poetry is as serious and as antic as life, and yet reading modern poetry can be difficult, shocking to our sense of what language is our must be. In A Grain of Poetry, Herbert Kohl opens the door to communication with poetry--the whole range and variety of contemporary poetic voices. While reading poetry doesn't have to involve making critical judgments, it does require knowing how to read modern works and how to be patient and give oneself over to the language and sentiments of a poem. Rather than provide a critical analysis of "good" poetry, Kohl presents a series of guideposts to help everyone read poetry and discover those poems that inform and inspire them. In clear, direct language, he covers all of the essential--but often uncharted--paths to understanding poetry:form and structure, line breaks and pauses, rhythm and melody, imagery, and recitation. Written by one of the country's leading educators, A Grain of Poetry is a comprehensive and highly accessible guide for all poets, students, and poetry lovers.
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(For puzzle fans and game players, here are more than 300 ...)
For puzzle fans and game players, here are more than 300 games, puzzles, contests and other challenges of language-all calculated to exercise the mind, stretch the imagination, and provide hours of fun for everyone.
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With the passion and wisdom that have made him one of our leading educators, Herbert kohl has written a wonderful book about how he has done theater with young people and how you can too.
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(1967 First Printing by Herbert R. Kohl. Teaching a povert...)
1967 First Printing by Herbert R. Kohl. Teaching a poverty program to children in the city slums and the results. Such an amazing book to read. The Poetry and writings of these children will surely tug your heart.
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Published in hardcover in the fall of 2005 shortly before Rosa Parks died, She Would Not Be Moved is a timely and important exploration of how the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott has been distorted when taught in schools. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review when it was first published as having "the transcendent power that allows us to see . . . alternate ways of viewing our history and understanding what is going on in our classrooms," this expanded version of Kohl’s original groundbreaking discussion "deftly catalogs problems with the prevailing presentations of Parks and offers a more historically accurate, politically pointed and age-appropriate alternative" (Chicago Tribune). In addition to Marian Wright Edelman’s introduction, She Would Not Be Moved includes an original essay by Cynthia Brown on civil rights activists Septima Clark, Virginia Durr, and Rosa Parks; a teachers’ resource guide to educational materials about Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement; and an appendix explaining how to evaluate textbooks for young people about this critical period in U.S. history.
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( Herbert Kohl, one of America's most influential and pro...)
Herbert Kohl, one of America's most influential and provocative educators, believes that the only way to persist and to grow as a teacher is to commit oneself to the development of the child rather than to the regimented training of the pupil. His book is a lively, personal testament of one teacher's efforts to cultivate the natural vitality of the learning process; it is also a wondefully concrete and practical guide full of stories of individual students and how they were helped to grow through learning.
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In his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for more than sixty years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Pete Seeger. Filled with disarmingly honest insight and gentle humor, this is an inspiring hymn to the possibility of social change.
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(Attempts to enable us to view the world of ticks, flies, ...)
Attempts to enable us to view the world of ticks, flies, birds, jelly fish, and other animals through their senses, not our own.
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Kohl, Herbert Ralph was born on August 22, 1937 in Bronx, New York, United States.
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1958. Master of Arts in Special Education, Columbia University, 1962. Postgraduate, Columbia University, 1965—1966.
Teacher, Reece School for Severely Disturbed, New York City, 1961;
teacher, New York City Public Schools, 1962-1964;
research associate, journalist, Center for Urban Education, New York City, 1965-1967;
director, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, New York City, 1966-1967;
research associate, Horace Mann-Lincoln Institute, New York City, 1966-1967;
principal, teacher, Other Ways High School, Berkeley, California, 1968-1971;
co-director teacher training, Center for Open Learning and Teaching, Berkeley, 1972-1977;
director educational development, Coastal Ridge Research and Ednl. Center, Point Arena, California, since 1978;
teacher, Point Arean Public Schools, 1986-1988;
Gordon Sanders professor education, Hamline U., St. Paul, 1988-1989;
distinguished professor education, Carlton College, Northfield, Minnesota, since 1989. Visiting associate professor department English University of California-Berkeley, 1967-1968.
Visiting professor education U. Alaska, Fairbanks, 1983. Director software development Science American Books, New York City, 1983-1984. Board directors Atari Institute, California Poets in Schools, Childrens' Choice Book Club, Coastal Ridge Research and Education Center, Computer Equity Project National Women's Coalition, others.
Editorial board Learning Magazine, The Lion and The Unicorn, Hungry Mind Review, Interaction Magazine, People's Yellow Pages, others. Consultant, lecturer public, educational and professional organizations.
( Herbert Kohl, one of America's most influential and pro...)
( Published in hardcover in the fall of 2005 shortly befo...)
( Winner of the National Book Award for children’s litera...)
( In Stupidity and Tears, renowned educator and National ...)
(For puzzle fans and game players, here are more than 300 ...)
(With the passion and wisdom that have made him one of our...)
(The prizewinning educator's brilliant and timely meditati...)
(Attempts to enable us to view the world of ticks, flies, ...)
(This is a compendium of intriguing and important words an...)
(In his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Hort...)
(Discusses the study of social animals and three particula...)
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( Poetry has the power to move and challenge the reader. ...)
(Poetry has the power to move and challenge the reader. It...)
(1967 First Printing by Herbert R. Kohl. Teaching a povert...)
(Teaching the unteachable)
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Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, National Association Development Educators, Authors Guild, Education Writers Association (Distinguished Achievement award 1983, 84), Signet Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Judith Murdoch. Children: Antonia, Erica, Joshua.