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Breanna Shier Paulita Reinhart English 2367 15 September 2016 Against Homework Kohn, Alfie. "The Case Against Homework." U.S. Catholic 81.2 (2016): 24-25. Academic Search Complete. Web. 15 Sept. 2016 Alfie Kohn was born October 15, 1957 in Miami, Florida. He went to Brown University where he received a B.A. He had also attended the University of Chicago for his Master’s degree, where he shortly started teaching at high schools and colleges. Now Kohn lectures and writes books about human behavior, educations, and parenting. He now has a total of 14 books and has been described possibly as “the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores,” by Time magazine. Coste, Birgitte. "Alfie Kohn Biography: The Father

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