| AERO's Annual Holiday Book Sale Begins! - Over 50 Clearance Titles Offered in Limited Quantity |
 Every title in our store is on sale including a special selection of over 50 clearance books offered for only $5-10. We have only ONE copy of each book available for sale and when they're purchased, they'll disappear from our store!
Below you will find six examples of books offered at our special holiday discount. Remember, EVERY book in our store is on sale this month!
Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom Paperback by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager, Ph.D.
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Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Story edited by Jerry Mintz & Carlo Ricci
List Price: $29.95 Sale Price: $14.95
After Summerhill: What Happened to the Pupils of Britain's Most Radical School by Hussein Lucas
List Price: $24.95 Sale Price: $13.95
Teaching the Restless: One School's Remarkable No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed by Chris Mercogliano (Hardcover)
List Price: $24.95 Sale Price: $11.95
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All orders placed in the next 24-hours will receive one free ebook of their choosing. In the comments of your order, indicate if you'd like a copy of Turning Points, One Size Does Not Fit All, Flood of Conflict, or Democratic Education sent to you.
All orders placed in the next 36 hours (Tuesday, 8:00am EST) should arrive by December 25th.
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| Community & Education Interview Series: Sonia Nieto |
 The following interview comes to us from a research project by Isaac Graves that looks at community, education, and the relationship between community and education through the eyes of educators and community stakeholders. The words 'community' and 'education' are often invoked with the assumption of a shared definition, but even educators within the same community can have different definitions and views on what these words mean. This research projects seeks to understand the complexity of these words and the relationship between them by identifying both commonly held and divergent views on community and education through in-depth interviews.
Sonia Nieto is the author of Finding Joy in Teaching Students of Diverse Backgrounds, Why We Teach and Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. |
| School is Optional: NEW VIDEO |
Ken Danford, of AERO member North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens, delivered a talk at TEDxAmherstCollege. Watch it below:
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| Wagging the Education Dog |
by Chris Mercogliano
I'm not quite done with charter schools. Another critical slant I've had on them since the "movement" became widespread is that they're just another in a long series of "reforms" with the unstated purpose of keeping dissent at a manageable level by distracting us from the utterly dysfunctional core of the educational model itself.
We've seen this same kind of phenomenon over and over again in the political arena, to the point where Hollywood finally made a movie about it. In the 1998 black comedy Wag the Dog, a Washington, D.C. spin doctor diverts the public's attention from the President's dalliance with an underage girl right before the election by hiring a Hollywood filmmaker to stage a fictitious war with Albania. As fate would so deliciously have it, soon after the film's release the real Bill Clinton was accused of having sex with a young intern. Then, just as the legal noose was closing around him, he ordered a cruise missile strike against an alleged weapons of mass... Read more here. |
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| LibEd Reviews Jerry Mintz's No Homework & Recess All Day |
for LibEd:
This admirably concise survey of democratic, or alternative, education is about as good as any introduction to the subject could be, and an essential primer for those wanting to start or re-shape their own alternative/democratic schools, youth clubs or any other youth service. I'm hugely impressed by the author's boundless enthusiasm for and unwavering commitment to the world-wide spread of democratic education, his encyclopaedic knowledge and globe-trotting energy. He is also a pithy writer whose book is full of concrete examples peppered with lively and interesting anecdotes. It is above all positive in tone, shedding light with many candles rather than constantly lamenting the darkness.
Read the full review here.
Purchase a signed copy of No Homework and Recess All Day by Jerry Mintz for 33% off (only $9.95) here today.
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| NEW: Maps of Alternative Schools |
AERO is very proud to announce the release of a map of the schools and organizations that AERO has helped to start. We have helped them through individual phone and on-site consultations, through our school starter courses, and in some cases, just through the help that is available through our website. In the latter case, we may not know about them. So if we were in some way a help to you in starting your school or organization and you aren't on the map, let us know!
AERO has now released a comprehensive map of democratic schools around the world. You can read our definition of a democratic school on our website. If you know of any schools not on the list that should be on the map, please let us know!
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Thank you for your ongoing support. With your help, we will make learner-centered alternatives available to everyone!
Sincerely,
Jerry Mintz
Executive Director
Alternative Education Resource Organization
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