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Table of Contents: 1) Bombshell Collector's Item Book Just Finished 2) Father's Day Book Sale 3) Two Great Free Videos from the Institute for Democratic Education

1) Bombshell Collector's Item Book Just Finished AERO has just completed one of the most important projects in its history. You may have heard a little bit about it when we were looking for a name for it. Little did we know how potentially far reaching and important this would be. It started when Dr. Carlo Ricci, who edits the Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning, approached me with the idea of contacting as many pioneers in educational alternatives as we could to ask them about their own education, their epiphany, what they did about it, and what they are doing now. Incredibly, twenty-seven amazing people wound up writing these autobiographical sketches for our new book, Turning Points: 27 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories! In many cases I learned crucial things I never knew about people I thought I knew well. Our self-imposed deadline was to have this book completed by the AERO 20th Anniversary Conference and Celebration which starts on June 25th (www.edrev.org/conference.html). The conference is now at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, just down the street from The Free School (Albany). We got the book done and a special pre-publication edition is now being printed for the conference. Ultimately we will gear up for a much bigger press run or we may be swept up by one of the bigger publishers who are interested in it. But for now, and just this one time, we are making this numbered, collector’s item edition available to the readers of this e newsletter. Each will be signed by some of the fifteen contributors in the book who will be coming to the AERO conference. These are the contributors who have essays in this book: Sharon Caldwell, Riane Eisler, John Taylor Gatto, David Gribble, Yaacov Hecht, Helen Hegener, Matt Hern, Helen Hughes, Don "Four Arrows" Jacobs, Mark Jacobs, Herbert Kohl, Mary Leue, Dennis Littky, Deborah Meier, Chris Mercogliano, Ron Miller, Jerry Mintz, Pat Montgomery, Susan Ohanian, Kirsten Olson, Wendy Priesnitz, Carlo Ricci, Tim Seldin, Herb Snitzer, Len Solo, Lynn Stoddard, and Zoe Weil This offer will not be repeated! To order your copy click on the site below: http://www.educationrevolution.org/turningpoints.html   Return to top   2) Father's Day Book Sale In honor of Father's Day tomorrow, we are offering 10% off any order from our bookstore (Turning Points is excluded from this offer).  Members receive 20% off! Simply use coupon code "dadsday" when ordering.  This offer expires when Father's Day does--midnight Sunday.   We are also offering the following two books by Chris Mercogliano at the incredibly low price of only $9 each!   How to Grow a School: Starting and Sustaining Schools That Work http://www.educationrevolution.org/grow.html   Teaching the Restless: One School's Remarkable No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed http://www.educationrevolution.org/teacres.html   Return to top   3) Two Great Free Videos from the Institute for Democratic Education      a. What is Democratic Education? by Yaacov Hecht (third post down)      b. Teacher Education for Democratic Schools by Eyal Ram (first post)   http://educationrevolution.wordpress.com   Return to top

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