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Read New Summerhill Newsletter with 12 Stories Listed Below!
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There are many great new stories about Summerhill in their latest Newsletter. These Include:
- A surprising story about the latest school inspection written by Zoe, Head of Summerhill and A.S. Neill's daughter. Among other things a very unusual exception was made for Summerhill
- See a story by Rachel Roberts, "Why not put Children in Charge of Their Own Schools?
- See pictures of Summerhill that were taken in the 60's, some of which are at the National Portrait Gallery
- See a report on the A.S. Neill Summerhill Trust
- See a story about Summerhill Children's presentation in Italy.
- See a report about work that Summerhill is doing in East London
- See a report by a parent about the Parents Camp Weekend
- See a report on how Summerhill was awarded FairAware status by the Fair Trade Foundation
- See a story about the book After Summerhill, about Summerhill graduates (which AERO exclusively distributes in the United States
- See a report of the homeschool resource center in Stroud, England, A Place to Grow (one of the alternatives AERO helped to start)
- See a link to a video of a talk A.S. Neill gave in a documentary
- Get the link to the award winning 4 part docudrama about Summerhill and its successful fight against the government
Read the entire Summerhill Newsletter here. |
| Sudbury Valley School Essays and Open House |
Lost Over the Summer
By Foss Tighe
Summer vacation is over and on the way to school I make my now predictable joke. "Did you complete your assigned summer reading? How about that social studies diorama for Danny?" My kids smile and roll their eyes. My mind drifts back to when my kids were in public school, and summer reading lists were real things. The lists would be accompanied by references; "Summer Learning Loss" research. Wikipedia has a good summary of this literature. The literature shows that kids in traditional schools perform worse on standard math tests at the end of the summer than they did at the start of the summer. The loss is estimated to be equal to almost 3 months of schooling. Reading scores are a little different, with kids in low income families showing a loss of 2 months, while kids from wealthy families have actually shown a small gain in reading scores over the summer. This research has been part of the justification for summer reading as well as for calls for a longer school year.
Read the rest here
The Exhausted School.
Sudbury Valley featured at Carnegie Hall! Those of us who were able to go to the event sponsored by John Taylor Gatto and the Odysseus Group, on November 13 were bursting-our-buttons proud, of both the school and our representative in the program at Carnegie Hall. The featured speakers, each of whom were introduced by Jamaal Watson and Victor Gonzalez, cartoonists and young teenagers, who are former students of Mr. Gatto in the New York City public schools, were Dan Greenberg; Patrick Farenga (of the Holt Associates); Mary Leue, founder of the Free School of Albany; David Lehman, principal of the Ithaca Alternative Community School, a public alternative middle and high school; Kathleen Young, the principal of a Waldorf School in upstate New York; Roland Legiardi-Laura, (a former student of Mr. Gatto) a poet and film-maker; and Barbara Jill Cummings, author of a book about the Brazilian rain forests and also a former student of Mr. Gatto.
Read the rest here.
Open House
Sudbury Valley School will also be hosting an open house on Saturday, October 21, 1:00-4:00. |
The Most Innovative Universities In America
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Ed: I wonder what their criteria were?
In spring 2017, top college presidents, provosts, and admissions deans were asked to nominate the 10 colleges and universities that are making the most innovative improvements in terms of curriculum, faculty, students, campus life, technology or facilities.
Followed by
Arizona State University-Tempe is Stanford University in the second place, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in third and Georgia State University and Carnegie Mellon University in the fourth and fifth place respectively.
The Top 10 institutions that received the most nominations for making promising and innovative changes on campus are the following:
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| Exclusive Chinese (Singapore) Movie, "I Not Stupid!" |
When Adler Yang was visiting here he alerted us to a fantastic movie about three children in the "dumb" stream in Singapore. It was an expose of the education system there and this dramatic movie won many awards. As a result of this movie the Singapore education system was forced to get rid of streaming. I'm sure nobody in the West knows about it. It has English subtitles.
But beware that there is a problem with the link to the first Movie, I Not Stupid. There are a lot of spam popups. So you should use a popup blocker for it. It is more critical of the school system than the sequel, I Not Stupid Too. But you can watch that to get a sense of it.
Here's the link to the description of the movie, I Not Stupid
Here's a link to a dramatic scene from the movie
Here's the link to the movie
Here's the link to the description of I Not Stupid Too
Here's the link to I Not Stupid Too |
| New SelfDesign Graduate Seminars! |
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Self Design is one of AERO's regular advertisers. You can see them all on the right. Director David Marshak recently said,
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The SelfDesign Graduate Institute advertises in AERO's online publications because we know that AERO members care deeply about learning founded in curiosity and enthusiasm. We offer graduate programs for adults who want to design their own learning and author their own lives-and we know that many folks who have these aspirations belong to AERO."
October 15, 4-5 PM PDT
David Marshak: Evolutionary Parenting
In this webinar David will explore the concept of evolutionary parenting, in particular how the consciousness that parents bring to their parenting can enhance the evolution of consciousness in their children as their children grow through childhood and adolescence.
See the rest here. |
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Do you get something useful from AERO. If you are not currently a member please become one. It may help us avoid the necessity of a major fundraiser later this year.
If we can get 25 new sustaining members and 100 new members, that will go a long way toward helping with this. Look below to see what you can get from membership
If you are a school or organization the membership is still only $75. As a member organization you get a link to your website and a spot on our member map. This is worth a lot to those schools that want more parents and teachers to find them, as the AERO website is #1 on Google for alternative education.
As a member organization you also get a 10% discount on books, audios, videos and the AERO conference. You also get free job ads and all your school community members get these discounts and can join our discussion lists. You can also get a member banner for your website and a certificate of membership. So please become a member or renew your membership here.
Jerry and the AERO Team
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In Service,
Jerry Mintz
Executive Director
Alternative Education Resource Organization
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