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THE NETWORK: NCACS Announcements
Need PenPal Class for Alternative Class in the Ukraine
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. Top
Down-to-Earth Books announces the publication of Volume IV of Challenging the Giant: The Best of Skole -- 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 -- www.spinninglobe.net/ -- where you will also find articles, reviews, links to other publications, back issues of Skole and other books about alternative education and lifestyles. For information and pricing please contact: Down-to-Earth Books (413) 628-0227
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
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/
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.
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
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
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,
Free informational flyers supporting the reclaiming of representative
democracy and reducing dependence on automobiles. http://www.autobuyology.org/
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 |
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