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:

Matrix Real Estate - use this company for your real estate needs anywhere in the world and half the commission goes to The Living School. Be sure to mention The Living School when you contact them.

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