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SPINNING
GLOBE
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- The scope
of this website
is wider than American education - hence the
title
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- SPINNING
GLOBE
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- We are all
experiencing an increasingly wider sense of helplessness and
growing horror at the fundamental changes for the worse that are
taking place all over the world - environmental, economic, social,
personal - which are robbing us of the predictable patterns of our
lives.
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- I can offer you a
whole group of online allies if you decide to take on the Mission
Impossible role of helping to make changes in the way things work.
Take a look at our
bookstore,
books by people who have been there in person - and some who still
are! Also a page of
resources
(articles, reviews, organizations, programs) to offer people
seeking to make changes in their children's education - as I did
during the 70s, joined by a self-chosen group of very special
people!
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- If you're worried
about the issue of oil in connection with global peace (I am),
click here
to look at the website Purple Panthers, which contains a cluster
of pages on biodiesel fuel from used cooking oil and on the
development of biodiesel production which developed from that
beginning. Click here
for a short video you can order from the bookstore giving a look
at Tom's plant and an explanation of how the fuel is made. Scroll
down to the video section.
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- Look also at the
page covering both teachers' and kids' actual experiences in
school for more reading on the subject!
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- Can the Internet
help us by-pass some of the obstacles standing in the way of
life-positive decisions and choices for families and their
children - as well as other issues too long ignored by society?
That has been my question. Organizations like MoveOn are telling
us it CAN! We must keep on hoping for change - for the
better!
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- Four years ago I
created this site to address the multiplicity of learning-centered
issues so many of us have been facing as families with kids in
recent years. I am ready to offer whatever support I can, based on
my own past work in creating and helping run an alternative school
for twenty years - and then fourteen years of editing and
publishing an alternative schools, SKOLE, the Journal of
Alternative Education. John Potter, Headmaster of the New School
of Northern Virginia, has written a lovely review
of the
little journal.
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- Write
me at
- maryskole@aol.com
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- The fear of
change can paralyze one's will to act. There isn't much we can do
about the war or the economic situation, at least until election
day, but we can learn how to live with them. I hope I can pass on
some of what I have learned to others trapped as I felt trapped
for so long. It's a long road, so let's get
started!
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- First,
let's tackle the issue of change itself.
Click
here
to enter that chaotic world of changes.
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