NAPLAN stands for National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy. In 2008, the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) commenced in Australian schools. Every year, all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 ( children aged approximately 9,11,13,15 yrs ) are assessed on the same days using national tests in Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and [...]
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AERO is the primarty hub for those looking for, starting, and researching educational alternatives around the world.What Works! – The 10th Annual AERO Conference
Come to the 10th annual AERO Conference: May 23-26, at LIU/Post, near New York City! We feel that this is [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Support AERO’s matching grant!
Dear friend of AERO, I hope you are doing well! We are writing to you to express our sincere thanks [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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