- ARTICLES
ON EDUCATIONAL TOPICS
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- ADHD:
A linking page for items concerning the issue of Attention Deficit
Disorder and related school problems.
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- Am
I Really Qualifed to Teach my Children?
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Some
Thoughts on This Common and Provocative
Question,
by
Richard Prystowsky
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- Alternatives
in Education:
Waldorf, Montessori, Holistic, Home Education - a linking page of
articles on these varieties of alternative education
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- Children's
Rights and Choices
- a linking page of articles and books about schools based on
relationships that take children's rights and choices seriously -
teaching issues, histories, problems and global
solutions
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- The
Art of Doing Nothing,
an article on teaching by Hanna Greenberg, Sudbury Valley School
style
The
Golden Age of Homeschooling,
by Helen
Hegener, co-editor of Home Education Magazine
Bullying
- a
program series from NPR, starting in 1996, on this crucial topic.
- Books
to Prisoners
(plus an ACLU report on the injustices in the administration of
our juvenile justice laws)
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- The
Constitution
and Due Process,
an essay by Kenneth Pennington, PhD, Syracuse University,
concerning refusal of due process to immigrants
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- The
Continuum Concept,
by
Jean Liedloff, an interview with Chris Mercogliano in the
Journal
for Living
on this revolutionary perspective on childrearing for the 21st
century!
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- EdUcational
Accountability,
an essay by Robin Martin
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- Exceptional
Teachers
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some of their writings
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- Has
Higher Education Abandoned its Students?
by
William H. Willimon
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- Home
Learning
- by Peter Kilborn - a vivid account of one family's
experience.
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- Index
of articles, reviews, and so on, from fourteen years of
SKOLE,
the
Journal of Alternative Education and other sources.
Available at
Indexsk.htm
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- 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
John
Taylor Gatto page
- all
of the articles/letters/commentary originally published in
SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative
Education
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- The
Lancaster System
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a
nineteenth century system for teaching reading and writing to poor
children that really
worked
- invented by an English Quaker, Joseph Lancaster, it used
students as monitors and teachers, and was very inexpensive to
administer.
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- Beyond
theIndigo Children and the Coming of the Fifth
World - by
P.M.H. Atwater
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- On
Community,
by Scott Peck, from The Different Drum, Chapter
Three
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- The
Play Principle,
by Jeffrey L. Peyton
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- Richard
Rodriguez,
on the future - racial and ethnic miscengenation in America - a
brilliant talk given to California librarians
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- Schooling
the Imagination, by Todd Oppenheimer
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Waldorf
schools, which began in the esoteric mind of the Austrian
philosopher Rudolph Steiner, have forged a unique blend of
progressive and traditional teaching methods that seem to achieve
impressive results -- intellectual, social, even
moral.
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- Summerhill:
For and For,
by Mary M, Leue ... well, you can't be against
Summerhill!
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- The
United States of America: A Social
Diagnosis,
by André Houle
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- Tools
Crtitical for the Success of
Homeschooling,
by
Peter Ernest Haiman
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