(Paperback)

"The Discipline of Hope" chronicles veteran educator Herb Kohl's love affair with teaching since his first encounter 40 years ago. 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 this book he distills the major lessons of an attentive lifetime in the classroom.

(Paperback)

An essay on refusing to learn. Kohl draws on an idea of Martin Luther King Jr's, and talks about the need for "creative maladjustment" in the classroom and anywhere else that students' intelligence, dignity or integrity are compromised by a teacher, an institution or other social mindset.

(Paperback)

Deals with the role and influence of children's literature in the context of both education/parenting.

(Hardback)

Well-known artists and performers are paired with interpretive essays by distinguished educators to produce a powerful case for giving arts a central role in education.

(Paperback)

An update of Greene's classic work on progressive education, which traces the complex interplay of literature and public education in America from the 1830s.