Free to Learn

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A Radical Experiment in Education

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Free to Learn is a 70 minute documentary by Jeff Root & Bhawin Suchak that offers a "fly on the wall" perspective of the daily happenings at The Free School in Albany, New York. Like many of today's radical and democratic schools, The Free School expects children to decide for themselves how to spend their days.

For over thirty years this radical experiement in American education has offered its students complete freedom over their learning. There are no mandatory classes, no grades, tests, or homework, and rules are generally avoided. As a last resort, rules are created democratically by students and teachers, often at the prompting of a student.

At a time when our educators are mandated to march forward with No Child Left Behind, the students of the Free School, many of whom would have fallen through the cracks of today's failing public school system, have managed to slip out of education's back door and have run away free.

Free to Learn follows a handful of these children courageously meeting the daily challenges of hope, acceptance, loss, friendship, conflict, and the difficult task of deciding, for themselves, what to do with each day.

Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education.

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Weight .5 lbs
Dimensions 5.3 × 7.5 × .5 in

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