The Herb Kohl Reader is destined to become a major new resource for old fans and a new generation of teachers and parents.

Evaluates the ways in which the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott is misrepresented to children.

Written in Kohl's hallmark conversational style and employing the case examples that make his writing so compelling, these essays are at the forefront of current thinking on urban education.

Discusses the meaning conveyed to children from books like "Babar, the Elephant," and "Pinocchio," and takes a look at the history of public education.

Reading, How To is Herbert Kohl's answer to the phonics versus whole language debate and to other false dichotomies and unhelpful mandates that characterize much of our talk about reading instruction.

A collection of essays explore the educator's views on teaching, learning, and the value of public education, includes thoughts on learning refusal, and the value of optimism

Herbert Kohl is one of America's most thoughtful and best-known writers on education. In On Teaching he explores the reasons people choose to teach in elementary and secondary schools.

" "Central to this book and at the core of the act of teaching as Kohl describes it is what he calls "the discipline of hope"the stubborn refusal to accept limits on what students can learn or what teachers can do by helping them discover ...

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 ...

Both a theoretical and practical study, Gypsy Academics and Mother-Teachers not only theorizes the relationship between gender and contingent labor in writing programs; it also offers administrators, theorists, and practitioners strategies ...