Alfie Kohn

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1. Alfie Kohn

   Author of Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason, The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"

2. John Caldwell Holt

   Author of How Children Learn, How Children Fail, The Underachieving School

3. Adele Faber

   Author of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too, Liberated Parents, Liberated Children: Your Guide to a Happier Family

4. Howard Gardner

   Author of The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach, Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand, Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet

5. Deborah Meier

   Author of The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem, Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools, Will Standards Save Public Education
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6. William Sears M.D.

   Author of The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two, The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby

7. Lawrence J. Cohen

   Author of Playful Parenting

8. Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

   Author of Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, Energet, Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime

9. Meredith Small

   Author of Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent, Kids: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children

10. Naomi Aldort

    Author of Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming Parent-child Relationships from Reaction And Struggle to Freedom,

11. Thomas Armstrong

    Author of Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing: Making the Words Come Alive, Awakening Genius in the Classroom

12. Robert J. Marzano

    Author of What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action, Transforming Classroom Grading, A Different Kind of Classroom: Teaching With Dimensions of Learning

13. Peter Michael Senge

    Author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education

14. Elizabeth Pantley

    Author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night, The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers: Gentle Ways to Stop Bedtime Battles and Improve Your Childs Sle

15. John Taylor Gatto

    Author of Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, The Underground History of American Education, A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

16. Linda Lambert

    Author of Leadership Capacity for Lasting School Improvement, Building Leadership Capacity in Schools

17. Gordon Neufeld

    Author of Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

18. Jane M. Healy

    Author of Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It, Your Child's Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence

19. Mary Griffith

    Author of The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom

20. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    Author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, The Evolving Self