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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 program, it is crucial that we create alternative school models, all across the country and around the world. AERO has decided to pour more of its energy into supporting the creation of a spectrum of [...]

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Iniciar una Escuela Alternativa

  Fecha de inicio: 6 de abril de 2013 Duración: 14 semanas   Todos los materiales del curso, tales como lecturas de libros, artículos se proporcionan en línea de forma gratuita. Usted no tendrá que comprar los libros. Una visión del programa de estudio MADRUGA Y SEPARA TU ESPACIO EN EL CURSO EN INTERNET: INICIAR [...]

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Start an Educational Alternative

At a time when the U.S. education system is failing under the burden of the ill-conceived No Child Left Behind program, it is crucial that we create alternative school models, all across the country and around the world. AERO has decided to pour more of its energy into supporting the creation of a spectrum of [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]