The End of the Rainbow: How Educating for Happiness??Not Money??Would Transform Our Schools by Engel Susan (2015-02-24) Hardcover Hardcover – January 1, 1757

Great insight and conversation starter

This book is a breath of fresh air amidst today's stultifying educational debates. It is a reason for hope, moving us away from trendy efforts to use schooling simply as a means to produce cogs for our economic machines and back towards traditional concerns for students' future lives. Better workers, too, will be educated in this way: more creative, more motivated, more fulfilled. The book is full of illuminating insight and sound practical advice. Everyone interested in education and human development should read it.

The End of the Rainbow published in 2015 by Susan Engel is an enjoyable book that presents real anecdotes from real teachers that helped me understand the challenges teachers face every day in the classrooms, and how to manage it. This book is also an excellent guide of how schools can be designed to support every student better not just based on their academics goals, but also based on their individual culture. I think Susan Engel did a great job developing a short book for busy instructors. She used her developmental psychology to analyze research and support different situations in our everyday classrooms and offer practical advices

This is an important book- and should be read widely by all who are interested in the future of our young people. HIgher education should have a higher purpose than just to ensure financial security and safety in the status quo. Enlightened college graduates, who learn to think and want to think, are essential if our world is to survive.

Engel is nothing short of brilliant. Given that we’re currently steeped in a national education crisis when all else has seemingly failed, it would serve all of us well to take The End of the Rainbow to heart. If we followed Engel’s lead it would not only yield a generally better educated society but a more evolved, humanistic one as well.

Susan clearly shows how educating for happiness is what all children deserve. She optimistically lays out a way that schools and teachers can reframe student success that is inspiring and possible. This book has made me reflect on my own practice and reminds me what is most important.

Great book. It addressed real issues about Teaching to the Tests and Testing. It focused on how to personalize education so that each child can invest his/herself in issues that matter to them. I read it from a Middle School and High School perspective.

Interesting collection of ideas - American society seems to focus on money as end goal even from the early years of education - instead of allowing children to delve deeply into topics they care about, they are funneled narrowly to comply with policies..ok. I am so surprised that the benefits of Montessori education were neglected in this book. If the emphasis is on public education, there are plenty of public montessori schools to investigate and propel into the spotlight as something that can work...and a good direction for policymakers/journalists/educators to pursue and be inspired by.