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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
3/4/12 link round-up
As students across the country stage a National Day of Action to Defend Public Education, Democracy Now! looks at the nation’s largest school systems—Chicago and New York City—and the push to preserve quality public education amidst new efforts to privatize schools and rate teachers based on test scores. In her presidential address (pdf) at the [...]
2/26/12 Weekly link round-up
In the links this week we start with a nice story about how architecture can dramatically change the school environment: Is Sweden’s Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning? New York City just released teacher performance assessments for 12,000 teachers based an what most consider very flawed data. Here even Bill Gates criticizes the release: GATES: [...]
2/19/12 link round-up
How to stop cheating on standardized tests (reported in at least 32 states!) NOGUERA TALK: ‘Education is about preparing young people to make the world better than it is’ HISTORICAL DOCUMENT: HOUSE OF LORDS DISCUSSION ON SUMMERHILL. In 1999 Summerhill School, the forerunner of all democratic schools, was under attack by the British educational bureaucracy. [...]
