Creative Schools by Ken Robinson
Published 2015 · 292 pages · 80,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Education & Reference, Essays & Criticism, Media & Technology, Nonfiction
How hard is Creative Schools to read?
Creative Schools scores 32 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 22 out of 100
- Accessible, conversational vocabulary. No jargon.
- Sentence structure: 22 out of 100
- Abstraction: 25 out of 100
- Arguments grounded in school profiles and research summaries.
- Information density: 38 out of 100
- Moderate. Balances anecdote, research, and argument.
- Narrative indirection: 80 out of 100
- Direct, thesis-driven with illustrative examples.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- Creativity as the organizing principle.
- Ironic distance: 12 out of 100
- Wry humor about education's absurdities.
- Resolution withholding: 80 out of 100
- Robinson offers a clear vision and existing models.
- Structural complexity: 18 out of 100
- Well-organized thematic chapters. Accessible throughout.
How Creative Schools is regarded
Creative Schools holds a literary regard score of 36 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.