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What's Wrong With Gold Stars and Timeouts?

By Samantha Henig

In “Tools of the Mind” classrooms, Paul Tough writes in the New York Times Magazine, "There are no gold stars." Then how can the teachers discipline students?

  • September 30 2009
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