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 Yong Zhao by Anthony Cody. He questioned the use of tests and “accountability” from the unique perspective of someone educated in China, now living – and raising children – in the USA. He has a new book out soon called World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students.
- A principal’s critique of NYS standardized tests and the Common Core: education officials should take these tests themselves to see their problems.
- This is a new website called Student Liberation sent to AERO dedicated to helping students physically and mentally liberate themselves from schools.
- An op-ed in the Oregon Standard-Examiner by conference presenter and Educating for Human Greatnessauthor Lynn Stoddard called “An Alternative to Common Core”.
- Not your imagination: Kids today really are less creative, study says. This piece from the TODAY show explains that “experts say creativity is innate, so it can’t really be lost. But it needs to be nurtured.”
- From the NYTimes education blog SchoolBook: How Testing Is Hurting Teaching
