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The National Directory of Alternative
Schools, a selected list of alternative educational
programs, with detailed descriptions of member schools and
colleges worldwide. To facilitate networking, the directory
includes a listing of affiliated organizations, and special
sections on homeschooling and other resources.
ISBN 0-9709896-0-1; ISSN 1062-0869
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The National Coalition News, our bi-annual
newsletter, contains events, thoughts, opinions and reports from
around the Coalition and the world of alternative education. NCN
also includes The Network, a classified advertising section that
members and others use to search for jobs or employees, curriculum
sharing, and notice of conventions and other gatherings.
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Home Education Magazine provides articles,
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a common-sense approach. Published six times a year. (Price includes $3.90 handling charge.) |
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This School Belongs to You and Me
by Gerald Newmark
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Parents Guide to Alternative Education
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Creating a Cooperative Learning Center (2000) by Katharine Houk, co-founder of NCACS member program Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education.
This book is a practical, realistic, yet inspirational guide for homeschoolers desiring a gathering place designed specifically to enhance the home education experience. Why re-invent the wheel? This guide tells the story of a center founded by a few dedicated parents where now more than seventy home-educated children flourish. Within its pages you'll find ideas for group activities, classes, workshops, fieldtrips, community service, special projects and more.
Please steal and redesign the ideas offered in this book for creating your own learning center. You'll find actual copies of by-laws, incorporation papers, surveys, registration forms, parent and youth agreements, lists of helpful organizations and resources; all preprinted so you can get a head start.
You can do it! Homeschooling is an effective and increasingly popular educational alternative, and it can be even better when families join together for fun and learning.
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Dealing Creatively with Life: The Life Adventure of Earnest Morgan (1999) by Ernest Morgan, businessman, socialist, civil-rights activist, aid-worker and co-founder of NCACS member The Arthur Morgan School.
Since his birth in 1905, Earnest Morgan has worked for his money. But throughout life, his mind and heart have been set on more important things - helping to improve the quality of life for everyone in his life, and ultimately for all living things.
Dealing Creatively with Life tells how, in so many different spheres of life, Ernest has acted out his motto. He tells of how he managed relationships within his own family; how, under his guidance, the Antioch Bookplate Company became a thriving employee-owned multinational corporation; how he worked with the Quaker-UN team in Gaza in the 1950s; how he worked, through what is now called the Funeral & Memorial Societies of America, to offer families affordable, personal burial of their loved ones; how, when money was all too scarce, he helped his wife Elizabeth fund her boarding school for middle schoolers, which would tend to all phases of their maturation, not just academic; and much, much more.
Here is the story of a life truly worth the ninety-plus years it has been taking up space on our beloved planet.
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The Bum's Rush: The Selling of the Environmental Backlash -- The Phrases and Fallacies of Rush Limbaugh (1994) by Don Trent Jacobs, Adjunct Professor, University of California, Berkeley and 2002 NCACS National Conference Keynote Speaker.
Criticism is never very easy to accept, even when it is constructive. If we are not ready for it, or if the cost of changing our ways is too great, we try to ignore it. If it is too frank, we may become resentful and attempt to turn the tables back upon the critic. Either way, such responses are often not in our best interest.
Environmental backlash is the public's retort to years of criticism for doing, as Rush Limbaugh says, "what comes naturally." The reaction has been fueled by many emotions. Defensive egos, fear for loss of wealth or convenience, frustration with the enormity of the challenges, anger with misinformation, indignation in respnose to moral extremists, and avoidance of guilt all contribute. As with most rebellion against criticism, the results may not be good for us. People are beginning to ignore sound ecological research. These are the first steps toward stifling environmental progress.
Not knowing what to believe about environmental issues also makes us vulnerable to backlash rhetoric. Our confusion comes from our frequent inability to be objective withle listening to persuasive language. This is why most states have laws that give us three days to change our minds if someone sells us something we didn't want or couldn't afford. Unfortunately, there is no three-day opportunity for redecision when it comes to making decisions about the environment.
However, if we could recognize the validity of a particular argument immediately upon hearing it, a significant degree of objective analysis could occur during the "sales pitch." The Bum's Rush teaches this skill, for in the arena of environmental politics, "buyers' remorse" could have dire consequences.
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Changing Lives: Voices from a School that Works (1994) by Jane Day - A book about graduates of NCACS member program The Community School of Camden, Maine.
From the foreward by co-founder and director Emanuel Pariser:
This book holds the stories of forty individuals who became adults the hard way. As teenagers some of them were in trouble with the law, others with drugs. Many were alienated from their families, and all had left or been told to leave school before they graduated.
With the help of friends, social workers, probation officers, caring guidance counselors, or family members, they found the Community School and despite sometimes disabling fears attempted to complete their high-school education. Now adults in their twenties and thirties, many have children and are living meaningful and responsible lives.
In twenty years the school has worked with 241 students who have stayed for two or more months. For this book, we selected one from those who did not finish the school's six-month term and the rest from the 180 students who did.
...Pulling together interviews and photography sessions for this book has encouraged me. I was not sure what we would find when we looked closely at the adults these teenagers had become. Would they be working? In abusive relationships? Continuing their educations? Abusing drugs and alcohol? In jail?
Although by no means perfect, our graduates' lives are proof that we have been on the right track, that our very personal brand of education has had its effect. Our students are now raising their children in more intelligent and caring ways. They are breaking educational barriers which have existed in their families for generations.
I hope this book shows that solutions to problems need not match the scale of the problems themselves. We need to pay less attention to overwhelming numbers and more attention to the individuals who comprise those numbers. When asked how she planned to deal with the millions of people in need that her order had not yet helped, Mother Theresa replied, "One by one."
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CHEEZ! Uncle Sam (1978) by Ed Nagel - The story of the Santa Fe Community School by one of its founders and current coordinator of the National Association for the Legal Support of Alternative Schools.
CHEEZ! reveals a remarkable approach to education that works, and it works for children outside traditional classroom settings, under the direct control of its participants.
CHEEZ! reveals the existence and struggle of a school, organized and operated by a community of low-income families, who have succeeded for more than a decade in providing a rich educational environment individualized for each child at less than half the cost of public school programs.
CHEEZ! reveals the system's destructive use of unnecessary, unreasonable and illegal obstacles to undermine the survival and development of viable educational alternatives outside its domain.
CHEEZ! reveals characters and events that make this story a "Peyton Place" of educational politics in Santa Fe, and a microcosm of government interference on a national scale.
CHEEZ! reveals a philosophical, social and legal war between the powers that be and the people who oppose them, in this case successfully.
CHEEZ! is the story of a mouse that roared.
"Out of many years of sweat and struggle to sustain a Free School in the hostile atmosphere of Santa Fe, Ed Nagel has composed a beautiful book that will not leave America unchanged.... It is all here in a single, carefully documented book - one that moves fast, strikes deep, hits hard and cannot help but bring a rational reader, first to the point of joy, and then to tears. Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities
"I personally don't believe any more in schools for children, even "free" schools. To people who hate what school is doing to their children, I say, "Never mind trying to change the school, or start a new one: Just take the kids out altogether." I have never seen and could not have imagined a stronger argument for that position than this book. ....the main point is that this book is the story of a long, brave and resourceful struggle against an indifferent and often corrupt government which all of us who care about children may have to wage one day, in one form or another." John Holt, author on children's education and unschooling.
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The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit (2002) by 2000 and 2001 NCACS Conference keynote speaker
Joseph Chilton Pearce.
Why do we as humans seem stuck in a culture of violence and injustice? How is it that we can recognize the transcendent ideal represented by figures such as Jesus, Buddah, Lao-tzu, and many others who have walked among us and yet cannot seem to reach the same state?
In The Biology of Transcendence, Joseph Chilton Pearce examines the current biological understanding of our neural organization to address how we can transcend our current evolutionary capacities and limitations. This latest research identifies the four neural centers of our brain, and, through the new discipline of neurocardiology, indicates that a fifth such center is located in the heart. As Pearce shows us, it is the dynamic interaction of our head (intellect) and heart brain (intelligence) that allows transcendence from one evolutionary place to the next - we are, quite literally, made to transcend. Conversely, it is the breakdown of this interaction through the cultural dictates of society and religion surrounding us from the time we are children that keeps us where we are, mired in the current crisies fo violence among people and between people and the planet.
Pearce reminds us, however, that we are not doomed to an endless cycle of hate and hurt. Not only do we have access to the transcendent teachers of human history, we have transcendence itself as our biological imperative, a state we have been moving toward for millennia.
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