Opening Session - Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 8:00am - 9:00 am

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education and parenting. The author of eleven books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations.

Alfie's criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has been described in Time magazine as "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores."