Alternative
Educational Topics Home Page
Listings here
include links to webpages on the following topics:
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- Alternative
Schools/Unschools. etc.
- An Alternative
Education Book List.
- Educational
Programs and Organizations,
- A comprehensive
INDEX of articles, interviews, schoiol profiles and much more from
fourteen years of SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative
Education
- Publications on
Educational and/or Lifestyle Alternatives,
- Reviews of Books
on Educational Issues,
- Down-to-Earth
Books for hard-to-find books and magazines on educational topics
(as well as others).
- News of special
interest concerning alternative education
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All
RED
notations represent internal links. All GREEN
notations represent hyperlinks to the actual websites. Hyperlinks
will be available at the top of each individual page represented by
the facsimile pages to which you may link
internally.
- Alternative
Schools/Unschools.
etc.
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- The
Academy at Charlemont
(MA), a pretty traditional, non-democratically oriented private
school that is also GREAT for kids! I don't much care about
"politically-correct" categories. This one may be an exception, or
it may not - in any case, vive les differences! Excellence comes
in many forms.
- Alternative
Community School, a long-running and highly successful Essential
Schools Network member high school in Ithaca,NY
- Blacksburg
New School, a family-centered alternative school
- Clonlara
School and Homeschooling Network
- Coalition of
Essential
Schools
page
- Community
School in Camden, Maine
- Albany's
Free
School,
all about it - and us
- Harmony
School Education Center
- New
School of Northern Virginia
- a school with a heart
- Other
Alternative
Schools home pages - a survey page describing several schools and
other resources
- Puget
Sound
Community School
- Stork
Family School
- a
wonderful school in the Ukraine
- Summerhill,
A. S. Neill's great English school, just emerged from under the
shadow of English officialdom!
- Sudbury
Valley
School
- Tibetan
Children's Village
- The
Touchstone Center
for Children
- Upattinas
School
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- An
Alternative Education Book
List
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- Educational
Programs and Organizations
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- AERO
(The Alternative Education Resource Organization) Home Page, an
all-purpose resource web page and a newsletter, Ed Rev, which also
publishes an almanac of alternative schools and other resources.
Click
here
for more information.
- AERO's
Other
Alternative Education sites.
Many
fascinating resources to browse on!
- Educational
Heretics,
Roland Meighan's website and press.
- Encompass,
Ba Luvmour's authentic education and conscious parenting
site
- The
Institute for People's Education
Association
of America
- Indigo
Children
website -
all about the "new kids" our schools love so well to dose up on
drugs
- Home's
Cool,
A to Z -
a homeschooling resources website
- Online
Kids' page
- where young kids can learn web design and mastery,the easy way,
if they really want it and can convince me it is real. Write me
at
maryskole@aol.com
- MAAP
page - Minnesota Association of Alternative
Programs
- The
Natural Child Project -
a great website with lots of articles on
child-rearing
- NCACS
page -
the National Coalition of Alternative Community
Schools
- North
Star,
Ken Danford's splendid Teen Center in Hadley, MA
- Prison
Resistance
Movement page
- Paths of
Learning Resource
Center,
created by Robin Martin
- Rowe
Camp
& Conference Center
- Saori
Handweaving
of New England, a creative weaving style for everyone, imported
from Japan by Mihoko Mayabayashi and Nat Needle
- School
of Metaphysics
home page
- Education for the Third Millennium
- Teaching
Classics to the Homeless,
a Bard College-supported program for real teaching that
works!
- The
Touchstone Center
for Children, Richard Lewis' marvelous program in New York City
for helping kids and teachers remember their
creativity
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- Publications
on Educational/Lifestyle Alternatives
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- Great
Ideas in Education,
an annotated catalogue of books on Educational Research, Reform
and Alternatives
- A comprehensive
INDEX
of articles, interviews, school profiles and much more from
fourteen years of SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative
Education, 1985-99
- LibEd,
an English Libertarian Education publication
- Paths
of Learning,
Options for Families & Communities: a great new alt ed
quarterly zine
- Paths
of Learning Resource Center,
a remarkably complete database for alternative education, crafted
by Robin Martin
- Crone
Chronicles magazine, teaching the "awakening from their dogmatic
slumbers" for lively old women
- Journal
of Family Life
(now called the "Journal for Living") 1999 covers of a great zine
with nutritive stuff for families that won't make you gag.
- Journal
of Family Life:
JFL covers for 2000-01: issues on Healing, Love, Issues
that Challenge our Youth.
- SKOLE,
the
Journal of Alternative Education, reviewed by John Potter. Back
issues are still available, and four volumes of anthology taken
from the journal (Challenging the Giant, is available from
Down-to-Earth
Books.
Contact Mary Leue at maryskole@aol.com).
- The
Sun
magazine, human aliveness between covers
- The
Underground History of Education,
by John Taylor Gatto. Click here
for a
review by Mary Leue of a previous edition John called The Empty
Child.
- Yes,
A Journal of Positive Futures,a journal of Positive
futures - an upbeat quarterly (which characterizes itself as
"your independent source for a just, sustainable, and
compassionate world" - edited by staunch environmentalist Sarah
Ruth van Gelder, each issue on a different topic. The one depicted
focuses on work - and, from another issue celebrating
courage.
the story of Rachel Corrie.
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- Articles
on educational topics
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- The following
articles have been taken, with a few changes, from several years
of SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative Education. Check for
additions and/or changes in our list of offerings every so often
by clicking here!
To order reprints of an article, or a back copy of the issue of
the journal from which it was taken, or of the three-volume
anthology of SKOLE articles, Challenging the Giant,
click here.
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- ADHD:
The
Emperor's New Clothes:
Why I Believe Attention Deficit Disorder is a Myth, by Thomas
Armstrong, PhD
- ADHD:
Rid-a-Him,
by Chris Mercogliano, Introduction, taken from a forthcoming book
on ADHD. You may read the first four chapters from this book by
ordering volume IV of Challenging the Giant from
our
bookstore.
- Am
I Really Qualified
to Teach my Children at Home? Some Thoughts on this Provocative
Question, by Richard Prystowsky
- Books
to Prisoners
(plus an
ACLU report on the
injustices
in the juvenile justice laws)
- The
Constitution
and Due Process,
an essay by Kenneth Pennington, PhD,
Syracuse
University
- Educational
Accountability,
an essay by Robin Martin
- Fixing
a Desk,
Mending a Mind, by Chris Mercogliano
- Has
Higher Education Abandoned its Students?
by William H. Willimon
- A School must
have a
Heart,
by Chris Mercogliano
- The
Moral Logic of Perpetual Evolution,
by John Taylor Gatto
- Mudsill
Theory,
the Lancaster Amish and Jaime Escalante, by John Taylor
Gatto
- Mumasatou
(1), by Chris Mercogliano
- The
Mumasatou Principle
(2): Council Meetings at the Free School, by Chris Mercogliano
- Panic,
by Mary
M. Leue
- Relational
Education
at The Free School, by Mary M. Leue (from Paths of
Learning)
- Summerhill:
Diary for the Tribunal Hearing to decide the fate of A.S. Neill's
famous school
- Summerhill
For and For,
by Mary Leue
- Which
Way,
Top Down or Bottom Up? by Mary Leue, exploring the implications of
education imposed on children versus education in which children
have a real say
- Why
The Free School?
by Chris Mercogliano
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- Reviews
of Books on Educational Issues
- (click
here
to see book covers)
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Challenging
the Giant,
volume II, reviewed by Claudia Berman, author of The School
Around Us, science writer (also includes volume I by
reference)
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- Challenging
the Giant,
volumes III and IV, both reviewed by Emanuel Pariser, teacher and
co-founder of the
Community
School,
in Camden, Maine.
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- A
Free-
Range
Childhood:
Self-Regulation
at Summerhill School, by Matthew Appleton, former Summerhill
House Parent, review from the back cover summary
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- A
Life in School,
Or, what the teacher learned, by Jane Tompkins, reviewed by Mary
Leue
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- Amazing
Grace,
by Jonathan Kozol, reviewed by Mary Leue
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- The
Empty Child,
by John Taylor Gatto, reviewed by Mary M. Leue
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- Fury
on Earth,
a Biography of Wilhelm Reich, by Myron Sharaf, reviewed by Mary M.
Leue
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- Growth
of the Mind,
by Stanley Greenspan, two reader reviews from Amazon.com
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- How
Like an Angel Came I Down
- conversations between Bronson Alcott and his children at the
Temple School, edited by Alice Howell, reviewed by Mary
Leue
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- May
You Never Stop
Dancing,
a Professor's Letters to his Daughter, by John D. Lawry, reviewed
by Mary M. Leue
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- Making
It Up
As We Go Along,
Chris Mercogliano's book about the Free
School,
three
reviews by Herb Kohl, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Teacher Magazine
reviewer
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- No
Master High or Low:
Libertarian Education and Schooling in Britain: 1890 -
1990,
by John
Shotton, reviewed by Robin Martin
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- Real
Education
by David
Gribble, a review by Robin Martin.
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- Summerhill
School,
A
New View of Childhood, by A.S. Neill, edited by Albert
Lamb
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- The
Underground History of American
Education,
by John Taylor Gatto, a review by Mary M. Leue of the precursor to
the Underground History of American Education, The Empty Child).
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Down-to-Earth
Books
for hard-to-find books and magazines on educational topics (as
well as others):
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- Bookstore
small but choice, several alt. ed books from England, and you can
ask us to order anything you don't find there
- Down-to-Earth
Books
(black)
- Down-to-Earth
Books
(green)
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- Return
to:
- Write
me at
maryskole@aol.com
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