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THE NETWORK: NCACS Announcements Need PenPal Class for Alternative Class in the Ukraine
Seeking outstanding alternative high schools interested in participating in a project to determine how effective high schools prepare students for college and careers
Research that assesses the benefits of parent/child teaching situations
Non-Violent Communication (NVC) and Education Workshop
Need PenPal Class for Alternative Class in the Ukraine
Seeking outstanding alternative high schools interested in participating in a project to determine how effective high schools prepare students for college and careers Research that assesses the benefits of parent/child teaching situations
Non-Violent Communication (NVC) and Education Workshop
YES! A Journal of Positive Futures YES! magazine is a quarterly publication with stories about real people creating systemic change for a better world. Suitable for teachers and high-school and college students, YES! contains positive, empowering features that inspire engagement in today's big environmental and social issues. With YES! teachers can help move students beyond despair, awaken them to the possible, and encourage them to make a difference. Ad-free YES! is the winner of Utne Reader's 2001 Alternative Media Award in "cultural coverage." "YES! magazine is vitally helpful to all of us - activists, educators, parents, young people - who are working to bring a more compassionate and sustainable society into being." Visit our searchable Web site, www.yesmagazine.org, to read articles, see our discussion guides, or subscribe.
An Unschooling Reader, with many articles from an anarchist perspective, as well as other views. For information, contact Emily at freekids@yahoo.com Top
FREE FLORIDA BACKGROUND CHECKS The Florida Department of Law Enforcement offers free national and state criminal history background checks to qualified organizations which are not presently required by statute to perform background checks of applicants, employees and volunteers. The Volunteer and Employee Criminal History System, authorized by the National Child Protection Act of 1993, is generally available to all organizations offering care or care placement services, even if it is a limited part of its overall business. For more information: www.fdle.state.fl.us/BackgroundChecks Top
Please take a look at our brand-new Web site for Japanese Saori hand-weaving, something worth learning about: http://www.saoriworcester.net/. It's not just for "craftspeople." Kindly spread the word. Nathaniel Needle and Mihoko Wakabayashi http://www.saoriworcester.net/ Top
THE BEST OF åKOLE Down-to-Earth Books announces the publication of Volume IV of Challenging the Giant: The Best of åKOLE -- The Journal of Alternative Education. You may preorder this new volume -- or all four volumes -- or any one of the other three volumes. All are available at our on-line bookstore -- http://www.cocker.com/~maryl/ -- where you will also find articles, reviews, links to other publications, back issues of åKOLE and other books about alternative education and lifestyles. For information and pricing please contact: Down-to-Earth Books (413) 628-0227 Top
Former NCACS Chairperson Jesse Mumm has begun a new project: Project Parallels. His regular, free, e-mail based reports update readers on efforts to create links between community-based education and organizing groups in parts of Ireland and Puerto Rican Chicago. The project is a collaborative effort between eight education and organizing groups, including the NCACS. The report provides valuable insight into the histories, strategies, victories and leaders of each community, and makes good reading for everyone interested in peace-directed cultural action and working for justice. For more information and to join the project, contact: Jesse Mumm TEACHERS FOR A DEMOCRATIC CULTURE Teachers for a Democratic Culture, based at Temple University in Philadelphia, is soliciting education-related articles for dissemination to newspapers nationwide. Also, the organization wishes to publish policy papers on different aspects of democratic education. TDC seeks contact information or completed articles for these projects. Teachers for a Democratic Culture originated in 1991 as a response to the negative portrayal by the media of educational innovations, such as multiculturalism, and social programs, such as open admissions. TDC also intends to begin building a network of local teacher/community activist alliances that will support the development of community-based programs for neighborhoods. We will also sponsor public forums to support alliances across communities dedicated to making every member in that community a "teacher" for others. For more information, contact: Nicole Myenberg
Coalition Members now have a new way to share information and stay connected online -- an email-based message board at http://www.egroups.com/. Participants can use NCACS@egroups.com to write a single email message that will be sent to all activated members of the list, and in turn receive news and thoughts from other member in a timely manner. NCACS membership is required to participate. For more information, contact the National Office at ncacs1@earthink.net, or call toll-free at (888) 771-9171. Top
Sebastian de Assis' book, Teachers of the World, Unite! is available from The Educational Center Press this Fall. Paths of Learning Magazine publisher Ron Miller calls it "a ringing manifesto for an educational revolution led by educators themselves." After reading Teachers of the World, Unite! you will never be the same teacher again. To order or for more information call (541) 757-2594 or email: edupress@peak.org. Top
The future of education is here! Discover how parents, teachers and young people are organizing collaborative life-long learning centers to nourish personal growth and participatory democracy. A project of the Coalition for Self Learning, Creating Learning Communities includes chapters by 30 leading innovators in alternative education, cooperative homeschooling and sustainable community development. The book demonstrates how learning communities could replace conventional schools as the primary educational model of the 21st Century. Includes Linda Dobson, Pat Farenga, Wayne Jennings, Bill Ellis, Wendy Priesnitz, Katherine Houk, Kathia & Alexander Laszlo, and more! Edited by Ron Miller. Creating Learning Communities http://www.pathsoflearning.net/ Top
The Friends World Program at Long Island University is an accredited, international college program designed for students who are capable of assuming greater responsibility for their learning. Our seven world-wide academic facilities offer students the opportunity to live, study, and do fieldwork in various cultures while earning a Bachelor of Arts degree. Students, in consultation with their faculty advisors, develop individualized "majors" and examine questions through a variety of cultural and disciplinary perspectives. Friends World stresses cross-cultural and international understanding and social responsibility. Please visit www.southampton.liu.edu/fw/ or contact our Admissions Office at (631) 287-8474 for more information. Top
The Center for Youth Development has published an issue brief entitled "CBO Schools: An education Resource Whose Time Has Come." The report provides a sampler of high schools across the country which are operated by community-based organizations, incorporating the principles and practices of youth development in helping young people of all backgrounds to achieve high educational standards. For a copy of this issue brief, or to let us know of any community-based schools you may be aware of, please call us at (202) 884-8296, or email email Delmar Christian at dchristi@aed.org.
NCACS-member program The Odysseus Group, a research and publishing organization operated by John Taylor Gatto, is raising funds to produce a documentary film about schooling, tentatively titled "The Fourth Purpose: An Explanation of American Schooling and its Alternatives." Anyone interested in becoming involved should contact: Roland Legiardi-Laura
Long out of print, The Learning Community, by James Penah and John Azrak -- originally published in 1975 -- tells the story of how five high-school teachers created an alternative "school-within-a-school," and how they succeeded in their efforts. Written by two of the school's founders, the book is a chronicle of the mini-school's existence. This fascinating story -- intelligently written, often witty and at times quite poignant -- is filled with the teachers' and students' reflections on how they created a school with a caring atmosphere of community. For your free copy, write: Bob Knipe
LEARNING THROUGH AMATEUR RADIO I am asking for help with the implementation of a unique, fun, exciting method of exposure to science and electronics. Amateur radio, a fun, exciting, life-long hobby, and treats loneliness by offering the opportunity to make new friends around the world with those who share similar interests. The process of meeting Federal Communications Commission licensing requirements (which were recently relaxed) makes this a highly educational past time, involving learning basic electronics and Morse code. The project is small, self-contained and easy to manage. It offers a fun way to get on the air and, unlike the Internet, this is a safe way to meet and talk to people. I can send interested people a description of the equipment people will need, and would be willing to loan out some equipment for up to two months. For more information, please contact: Duayne Wyatt,
The Odysseus Group announces publication of John Taylor Gatto's latest book, Underground History of Alternative Education, to be distributed early next year by Oxford Village Press. Advance commentary about the book: "This book is brilliant. When I finished it I felt like I'd just gone 15 rounds with the champ. This book is unlike any other, for my money the best approach to an understanding of the mythology of public education in America around." -- Chris Mercogliano, director, Albany Free School "Gatto tells us straight up what's wrong with school in his powerful trademark blend of passion and hard thinking. Grounded in a careful study of history, crafted out of the context of his own 30-year teaching career, this book will validate your own shadowy intuition about schooling." -- Grace Llewelyn, author, Teenage Liberation Handbook. For more information, contact:
CREATING A COOPERATIVE LEARNING CENTER An idea-book for home schooling families, Creating a Cooperative Learning Center is a practical, realistic yet inspirational guide for those desiring a nurturing and challenging context for children involved in home education. However, this book's vision goes beyond home education, encompassing learners of varied ages and situations. Through the telling of the story of a center founded by a few dedicated parents -- now serving more than 70 children -- author Katherine Houk provides ideas you can apply to your own situation. Ms. Houk is co-founder of The Alternative Learning Center, which provided the inspiration for the book, and executive director of the Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education. For more information: Longview Publishing
FREE chat board use and web hosting, free help in web setup and color photo scans for $1 each. Optional full-service Web-page setup and maintenance. NCACS member school. Satisfaction guaranteed. USALL (800)-71USALL
The Paths of Learning Resource Center has now indexed more than 400 resource from both well-known and lesser-known publishers in education about schools and alternative education programs based on holistic and learner-centered philosophies in education. We invite all K-12 teachers, teacher educators and home educators to make use of this resource. We have recently added a new "Browsing" feature, allowing one to look at all of our indexed resources by author, publishing Web site, etc. We are always seeking feedback from our visitors, and welcome your comments on how you are using the database. Check it out at www.PathsOfLearning.net/index2.cfm Top
Former homeschooler (now 23-years-old/college) seeks pen-pals. Enjoys sharing ideas on learning/electronic technologies and biotechnology, software creation, music (listening and writing) and writing literature. Eric Meyer,
WORLDWIDE REAL EDUCATION NETWORK Announcing a new, international network of schools and learning communities dedicated to education which is controlled by the participants and which respects the growth of the full humanity of each person. Our mission is to promote communication and exchange between schools and learning communities like ours, and to support efforts to unite, organize, expand and to uphold our victories. As we improve communication across barriers of distance, culture and language, we have faith that a natural dialogue will emerge which will give shape to a representative body that is truly inclusive and respectful of the rights of all its members. For more information, write to David Gribble at kca48@dial.pipex.com. Top
Free informational flyers supporting the reclaiming of representative democracy and reducing dependence on automobiles. http://www.autobuyology.org/ Top
The National Association of the Deaf administers the Captioned Media Program, a FREE video lending library funded by the US Dept. of Education. We provide open-captioned videos which display English text using any VCR. Contact us for a free brochure: Captioned Media Program
My name is Bill Goldberg and I was formerly a teacher and counselor at two free schools, New Directions in California, and Alternative School #1 in Seattle. I am now a graduate student in Sociology at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, and am in the process of studying free schools. I have had difficulty finding statistics listing the number of free schools that existed in the 80's, 90's and currently. I have the free school directory for 1971, but nothing else. If you could direct me to a source for those statistics it would be appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help. Bill Goldberg
Those interested in Relational Education and its practice at Maine's Community School can read all about it in the voices of the students and teachers who lived it. NCACS now offers Changing Lives: Voices from a School that Works by June Day, a collection of interviews with 37 CSchool alumni who attended from 1973 to 1989. Read for yourself how teaching, combined with counseling and caring, transformed these students' lives. Director Emanuel Pariser has generously donated a portion of the book's $22 cost to the NCACS. To order, send a check or money order to: NCACS/Cschool Book
Paths of Learning: Options for Families and Communities, a journal on alternative education, is seeking essays, poetry, and other writing from young persons ranging in age from those who are quite young to those who are in college. The writing one submits need not be on education and learning per se, though such pieces are especially welcome. Young writers wishing to submit work for us to consider should send their pieces to Samara Miles, the journal's Associate Editor in charge of young persons' submissions, at moonsong@ix.netcom.com. Word files attached to e-mail messages are particularly welcome. If, instead, the writer wants to send a hard copy of her or his work, (s)he should mail it to the journal's editor: Richard J. Prystowsky |
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