Jerry Mintz Last week we announced an initiative for families choosing to opt their children out of the draconian, year-end, high-stakes testing at their public schools. It is every parent’s right to do this. Alternative, learner-centered schools in AERO’s network are volunteering to let students who have opted out to visit their schools during this [...]
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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 for your support recently and in the past. This has been one of the most exciting years in AERO’s history. You may have seen some of it for yourself: What we already accomplished Redesigned the [...]
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 out of school. Why? For a majority, school was not relevant to them. The education system isn’t broken — it’s doing exactly what it was intended to do so — create compliant cogs in machines. It’s outdated. [...]
AERO local, state, & country representatives
AERO has always had an informal network of representatives. When someone needs a contact in a certain city, state or country, we know who to refer them to. Now, with the new AERO website and many new programs we have decided to formalize that network. We will be directly contacting some people to see if [...]
Montessori education links
Maria Montessori (1870-1952), the first woman physician in Italy, was working with retarded and emotionally disturbed children around the turn of the century when she discovered that they, as well as normal children, learn best through their senses by working with concrete materials. Building on the earlier work of Eduard Seguin, who had taught deaf-mute [...]
Neuroscience & education links
Teaching With the Brain in Mind, 2nd Ed. When the first edition of Teaching with the Brain in Mind was published in 1998, it quickly became a bestseller, and it’s gone on to inspire thousands of educators to apply the latest brain research in their classroom teaching. Now (2005), author Eric Jensen is back with [...]
Academic reports on learning & education
Learner-Centered Psychological Principles Researchers: American Psychological Association (APA) – Board of Education Affairs, Learner-Centered Principles Work Group Format: PDF report Year: 1997 This report by the esteemed American Psychological Association (APA) defines learner-centered education according to 14 principles organized into Cognitive and Metacognitive, Motivational and Affective, Developmental and Social, and Individual Differences factors. In the [...]
Public alternative education links
Alternative High School Initiative AHSI is a network of youth development organizations committed to creating educational opportunities for young people for whom traditional school settings have not been successful. Catalyst Chicago Catalyst Chicago is an independent newsmagazine created in 1990 to document, analyze and support school-improvement efforts in the Chicago Public Schools. Center for Education [...]
