Robert L. Fried

Robert L. Fried is an educator and author whose career has included work as an English teacher, school principal, school board member, and associate professor of education at Northeastern University. He has also consulted with schools and spoken to teachers across the United States, and lives in Concord, New Hampshire.

Fried is the author of The Passionate Learner: How Teachers and Parents Can Help Children Reclaim the Joy of Discovery (Beacon Press, 2001), as well as The Passionate Teacher, revised and expanded as Passionate Teaching in Troubled Times. His books focus on student engagement, teaching practice, and education reform.