Do you really want a dead cat on your desk?” When a teacher took a parent’s phone call at the end of another busy school day, she was taken aback by the question. She couldn’t figure out why a first grader in her class came home telling his mother that their recently deceased family pet [...]
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 [...]
