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Invitation to the International Conference of Quality Education for Life in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

The Foundation for Peaceful Cohabitation (Fundeconp) from Bolivia;  Nuestra Escuela from Puerto Rico, and the Organizing Commission for Quality Education for Life, invites you to participate in the International Conference of Quality Education for Life on March, 18 – 20 of 2013, which will take place at the Private University of Santa Cruz (UPSA) Santa Cruz, Bolivia. You are [...]

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Support The Free School’s Internship Program

The Albany Free School’s residential internship program, which was generously supported by the Edwards Foundation for many years, has recently lost its funding and is now in jeopardy. Over the past decade the program has enabled over 40 people from the United States, India, Japan, Italy, Finland, Nigeria, South Africa, Pakistan, England, Canada, Puerto Rico, [...]

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7/2/12 Weekly link round-up

Here are some interesting finds from around the Internet this week: High Stakes Tests Harm Students and Teachers, Undermine Equity in New York’s Schools – New York’s over-reliance on high-stakes standardized testing harms students, teachers and public schools, with especially harsh consequences for high-need students and the teachers and schools that serve them, according to [...]

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6/9/12 Weekly link round-up

Here are some interesting reads from the last few weeks: What does the increase in MN charter k-12 enrollment, and decline in MN district k-12 enrollment mean? The lessons of Pineapplegate Kids should be building rockets and robots instead taking standardized tests Autodidact Herbert Spencer Greenest College Campuses Gandhian Education: My Magical School (pdf) Ina [...]

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5/15/12 Weekly link round-up

Here are some interesting links from around the web this week: Here is the latest issue of the Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning including submissions on home learning, trust in making learning decisions, learning to read, and the immigrant experience of learning. Liberation Education is out with their newest volume that includes personal experiences [...]

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5/6/12 Weekly news round-up

 Here are some alternative education links we’ve found over the last week: Stop Racing! Starting Living (It Works!) was published in the Huffington Post by Kenneth Danford, co-founder of the North Star Self-directed Learning for Teens, an AERO member, in Hadley, MA. Will the Common Core Create World-Class Learners? An interview of author and professor [...]

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4/27/12 Weekly link round-up

Don Glines has been called the “Vice President for Educational Heresy.” He was founder and principal of what some have called the most innovative high school in the United States, the Wilson High School, in Minnesota. He told me that when he started he look all of the desks in furniture and piled in in [...]

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4/10/12 Link round-up

Here are some interesting links from this past week: STODDARD ON INCREASING GRADUATION RATES: “To impose a generic, one-size-fits-all, common core curriculum on students will actually result in more dropouts and lower graduation rates. Higher graduation rates are only possible by making curriculum fit the students, not by making students fit the curriculum. This can [...]

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3/17/12 Link round-up

3/17/12 Link round-up

Here are some interesting links from the past week: The following are two links to a letter to the editor and a guest editorial that were recently published in two of Utah’s major newspapers by Lynn Stoddard who will be presenting at our conference this year. They are a plea for genuine, authentic accountability in [...]

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3/11/12 Weekly link round-up

3/11/12 Weekly link round-up

Above, in a video from many years ago, Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer, discusses technology that lets people take the reins of their own educations. Other links from this week: A new national survey values views of students, parents & educators. Last year, 64% of students reported that they talk to their parents about [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Order new AERO book by young writer!

AERO is very excited to announce a new book by 17-year-old author Nikhil Goyal. Every nine seconds, a student drops [...]