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Judy Cohen

A place to grow

Nice title, isn’t it?  How do you like it as a name for a school?  Makom Ligdol – “a place to grow” in Hebrew – that’s the name of the school where I work.  It is a democratic school, situated in HaKfar HaYarok (the Green Village, in Hebrew). HaKfar HaYarok is an amazing place.  It [...]

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Judy Cohen

A dent in the sofa

Pouring a cup of instant coffee, looking over the kitchen counter into my living room, I suddenly saw it. On the right-hand side of my sofa, the side that gave a good view of the TV screen, there was a dent – not a deep ravine, a roundish, shallow crater, just big enough to accommodate [...]

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2013 Conference

What Works! – The 10th Annual AERO Conference

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Come to the 10th annual AERO Conference: May 23-26, at LIU/Post, near New York City! We feel that this is [...]

Educational Alternatives

Join AERO at IDEC 2013, August 4-8 in Boulder, Colorado

IDEC 2013 is a unique international gathering of changemakers—practitioners, organizers, academics, youth, and educators—built around transforming communities, schools and learning. [...]

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WATCH: Sir Ken Robinson’s New Talk

Building a Culture of Innovation Sir Ken Robinson delivers a brand new, insightful and entertaining talk to educators at the [...]

Educational Alternatives

A Year at Mission Hill (Video)

What goes into creating a powerful learning environment for children and adults? Meet the teachers, families and children of Mission [...]

Dale Schlundt

Teaching that Promotes the “I Get it”

Why do we remember some lessons and forget others? Is it that some are perceived as more important, exciting, or [...]

Robert Barry Elliot

Trying to Have our Cake & Eat it too (Part 1 of 7)

TRYING TO HAVE OUR CAKE & EAT IT TOO: WHY COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IS ANTITHETICAL TO EDUCATION; HOW ARBITRARY AUTHORITY AFFECTS [...]

Cathleen Haskins

Explaining the Extraordinary, Part One: Cultivating the Potential of the Child

What is Montessori? How is Montessori different than traditional education? Anyone who has ever had a child in a Montessori [...]

Elliot Hallmark

The Spirit of Democratic Education (Part 3 of 3)

The author B. Traven captures the essence of false, unsupported freedom in his epic Jungle Novels.  In them, he describes [...]

Elliot Hallmark

The Spirit of Democratic Education (Part 2 of 3)

From the beginning, democracy is premised upon and assumes that freedom is the nature of the beings who take part [...]

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Support AERO’s matching grant!

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Elliot Hallmark

The Spirit of Democratic Education (Part 1 of 3)

Democracy is a tool we think about using in education.  But, what is this tool called democracy?  And towards what [...]

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Register for AERO’s Fall School Starter’s Course!

At a time when the U.S. education system is failing under the burden of the ill-conceived No Child Left Behind [...]