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Susan Sarandon’s message on alternative schools

Susan Sarandon emphasizes that there are other options for your child and AERO is willing to help connect you with those options.

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An alternative school in Venezuela inspires students

The teachers (cooperative educational facilitators) created a tutoring space to work with the children who were at risk of dropping out of school. The project evolved into an alternative school that is managed collectively and embraces a pedagogy focused on empowerment and community transformation, as well as creating a more holistic learning environment for students.

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Teachers share methods of learning through poetry

A teacher of English language, shares some methods of teaching that she has found most useful and fun in a not-so-traditional classroom setting -Poetry and free expression.

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MITx creates new open course classes

Over a decade ago, MIT decided to offer it’s knowledge for free to the world. Today, MITx is a vision by Anant Agarwal. He wants to bring the classroom experience online for the whole world so students that are curious and passionate about learning will have the opportunity to be in a non-traditional classroom environment, [...]

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Southwestern high school students create self-teaching school

On Friday, April 27, 2012 at 10:55 a.m., we students of Western International High School will be starting our first day of class at Southwest Detroit Freedom School at Clark Park, across from our beloved school which we were suspended from. After over 300 of us staged a student walkout on Wednesday April 25, 2012, over 150 [...]

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May Day and the free university in New York

The Free University offers a public space for the 99% to disengage from an unequal system and imagine a model for alternative education. Those gathered in Madison Square Park, and those meeting in other spaces in solidarity, will create a university that is open to all, without debt or tuition for students, without pre-requisites, age [...]

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Photography and creative schools not propelling students forward

John Free is a social documentary photographer. John has taught at USC, UCLA, Newport Art museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and currently teaches at Pasadena City College. He has worked professionally at this craft for more than 30 years. For his personal work, he does street photography

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Coursera jumps into independent education

With the discussion of open-course software, education, and classes. Coursera is one of the many organizations and tech-start ups that are offering opportunities for individuals to learn and even get college credit if they want to.

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The Saxifrage school idea on the current educational system

A college education is only worth your time and money if, at the end of four years, you are actually capable of doing because you have been doing, not just studying, all this time. Students should be recognized as sovereign learners capable of education and success even without attending an institution. Some are all the better for having [...]

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Forget what you know – knowledge in a fresh perspective by Jacob Barnett

Jacob Barnett is an American mathematician and child prodigy. At 8 years old, Jacob began sneaking into the back of college lectures at IUPUI. After being diagnosed with autism since the age of two and placed in his school’s special ed. program, Jacob’s teachers and doctors were astonished to learn he was able to teach [...]

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Democratic table tennis club

I’ve been playing table tennis since I was a kid and I love the sport. Along the way I had [...]

Sir Ken Robinson to keynote 2012 AERO conference!

Register now! In line with the conference theme, “Finding the Catalyst for the Education Revolution,” Sir Ken Robinson will share [...]

A response to the crisis of our time

In the United States, many people express their political or philosophical opinions by attaching small signs on the back end [...]

Trivial pursuit

There’s a YouTube video going around online right now – maybe you’ve seen it – the one where a bunch [...]

The rights of children in school

In my work as an educational consultant, I have visited many schools all over the world. I have observed, in [...]

A place to grow

Nice title, isn’t it?  How do you like it as a name for a school?  Makom Ligdol – “a place [...]

A map of the alternative education landscape

What type of learning environment is right for your child? Choosing a school, or choosing to educate your child outside [...]

My brain said ‘no’

One of the benefits of homeschooling is that it is generally unnecessary to hold to a rigid schedule. In other [...]

Nature principle

The compelling reasons kids need nature were explained factually and forcefully by Richard Louv in Last Child in the Woods: [...]

Educating children in a violent world

I was recently asked to write a column for a national education magazine. When the editor told me the theme [...]

Caring education and meaningful democracy

Is it possible to have caring education or a meaningful democracy in a culture that is fundamentally competitive, materialistic, and [...]

Taking risks and breaking rules

Albert Einstein once said that it is a miracle curiosity survives formal education. Unfortunately, it often doesn’t. When my husband [...]

The peaceful school

“You must be so patient.” If I have heard that once, I’ve heard it a hundred times. I must be [...]

Education for a green society

There is a strong connection between the business world and the modern institution of schooling. Historians of education have explained [...]

How to listen and how to be heard

Do you really want a dead cat on your desk?” When a teacher took a parent’s phone call at the [...]

The lifelong journey

It was a cloudy day in April, 2004. It was cloudy in my mind. And storm clouds were brewing over [...]

Toward participatory democracy

As I pursued research for my book on the 1960s-era free school movement, I came across numerous references to the [...]

A history lesson and survival guide for young people during the decline of America

If you’re an American teen or young adult, you’re a pioneer. You may not think of yourself as a pioneer, [...]