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 [...]
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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 [...]
Homeschooling and unschooling links
A to Z Home’s Cool Homeschooling A favorite site worldwide for homeschoolers. Homeschooling mother Ann Zeise links into essays from all sorts of people on all sorts of homeschooling topics, thus providing you with real content from all over the Internet. Arbor Academy A uniquely adaptive individually tailored independent study program which supports all educational [...]
Directory of education innovators
This is a list of individuals in the field of educational alternatives who have been inspirational to the one or many people who have named them. The list is not nor will it ever be closed. To add or edit an entry, send the name with a few sentences or a short paragraph, along with [...]
