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 [...]
Come to the 10th annual AERO Conference: May 23-26, at LIU/Post, near New York City! We feel that this is [...]
IDEC 2013 is a unique international gathering of changemakers—practitioners, organizers, academics, youth, and educators—built around transforming communities, schools and learning. [...]
Building a Culture of Innovation Sir Ken Robinson delivers a brand new, insightful and entertaining talk to educators at the [...]
What goes into creating a powerful learning environment for children and adults? Meet the teachers, families and children of Mission [...]
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: WHY COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IS ANTITHETICAL TO EDUCATION; HOW ARBITRARY AUTHORITY AFFECTS [...]
What is Montessori? How is Montessori different than traditional education? Anyone who has ever had a child in a Montessori [...]
The author B. Traven captures the essence of false, unsupported freedom in his epic Jungle Novels. In them, he describes [...]
From the beginning, democracy is premised upon and assumes that freedom is the nature of the beings who take part [...]
Dear friend of AERO, I hope you are doing well! We are writing to you to express our sincere thanks [...]
Democracy is a tool we think about using in education. But, what is this tool called democracy? And towards what [...]
At a time when the U.S. education system is failing under the burden of the ill-conceived No Child Left Behind [...]
