Kohl, Herbert R

A collection of stories that discuss the importance of arts in education.

Contains true stories of the lessons Herbert Kohl learned from his students while teaching and explains the steps that he feels should be taken to make positive changes in the school system.

Uses curves, maps, and patterns to discover mathematical relationships.

Offers advice on how people can educate their own judgement as readers of modern poems and learn to decide for themselves what they like or love, and what they find boring or inaccessible.

Contains over 300 games, puzzles, contests, and other language games.

Evaluates the ways in which the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 is presented in school textbooks, maintaining that most resources fail to tell the whole story about Parks and the entire civil rights movement.