The Learning Edge: A Conversation with Chris Mercogliano and Steven Harrison

Articles

The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher
By John Taylor Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year, 1991

Books

Links

Alternative Education Resources

The Alternative Education Resource Organization - a clearinghouse for alternative schools, colleges, and homeschooling; produces a radio show, The Education Revolution; and maintains a comprehensive directory of alternative schools.

National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools - group of schools that advocate participant control of education.

Informal Education - information on education at its best.

Students Against Testing - lobbying effort to abolish academic testing.

Association for Experiential Education - promotes experiential learning, publishes books, directories, and the Journal for Experiential Education.

Great Ideas in Education - the joint website of Holistic Education Press, Psychology Press, and the publishing division of the Foundation for Educational Renewal.

The International Association for Learning Alternatives - interesting articles and links to all kinds of alternative schools

Alternative Schools

The Sudbury Valley School - This 30-year-old school run on student-directed learning and democratic principals is a gem in education.

Summerhill - 75 years later the school described in A. S. Neil's Summerhill and Freedom, Not License is still going, now run by Neil's daughter.

Brockwood Park School - one of J. Krishnamurti's schools (in England) founded on education as inquiry.

Albany Free School

Australian Correspondence Schools - a global distance-learning provider.

Blue Mountain School - a publicly funded, nonprofit democratic learning community in Oregon.

The Circle School

Clonlara School - an independent, innovative school headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also offers a Home Based Education Program extension, serving families in ten countries.

Laurel Springs School - an international K-12 school offering independent study and distance learning, as well as an internet-based homeschooling program.

The Meeting School - an alternative boarding school for high-school-aged students with a Quaker philosophy.

The New School of Northern Virginia - a small, holistic school that seeks to educate the whole child.

Puget Sound Community School - ensures the freedom of students of all ages to think for themselves and to control their own destinies.

Windsor House (North Vancouver, BC, Canada) - for more than 25 years has offered an academically noncoercive environment in a democratic structure.

Home Schooling

Life Learning Magazine - magazine covering homeschooling and unschooling.

Jon's Home School - links and text related to homeschooling.

Home Education Resource Magazine - resources and a discussion area.

Cafi Cohen - lists of diploma-granting independent-study schools and includes the first chapter of her book, "And What About College?"

Links to folks who help make the school possible:

Sentient Publications - publisher of alternative education books (including "The Happy Child" )and continuing supporter of The Living School. Numerous books on alternative education.