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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, [...]
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