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Introducing the New EducationRevolution.org
We have been hard at work designing a new website over the past few months to create a site that is easier to navigate. We're excited to announce that it is finally ready to share with the world! Visit educationrevolution.org to view the new site. 
 
Our website is the #1 site when searching for alternative education on Google and receives over half a million visits yearly.
 
We are especially interested to hear what you like about the site, what could be better, what you'd like to see on the site, and any other thoughts you may have. Our goal is creating a site for you, so we take your feedback seriously. Email your thoughts by replying to this newsletter or writing to jerryaero@aol.com. Enjoy the site!
 
 
Invent to Learn
Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom Paperback

by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager, Ph.D.
 
 
Join the maker movement!
There's a technological and creative revolution underway. Amazing new tools, materials and skills turn us all into makers. Using technology to make, repair or customize the things we need brings engineering, design and computer science to the masses. Fortunately for educators, this maker movement overlaps with the natural inclinations of children and the power of learning by doing. The active learner is at the center of the learning process, amplifying the best traditions of progressive education. This book helps educators bring the exciting opportunities of the maker movement to every classroom.

Children are natural tinkerers
Their seminal learning experiences come through direct experience with materials. Read more and buy this exciting new book for your school or learning environment today! 
When a Private Alternative School Goes Public...
Ed. note: This is from a new blog by Chris Mercogliano, former director of Albany's Free School, author of several books including In Defense of Childhood and Teaching the Restless, and an instructor with AERO's start a school course. Mercogliano's new blog already has 7,000 views! 
 
The year was 1971. A small collective of hippie civil rights and antiwar activists decided the way to change the world was to drive around downtown New Orleans in a beat up old van and pick up a racially mixed bunch of kids, two-thirds of whom were poor; and then bring them to a donated community center space and call what they did together the New Orleans Free School.

The founders never took the time to hash out a coherent educational philosophy, but they were heavily influenced by the writings of A.S. Neill, John Holt, Jonathan Kozol, and George Dennison, who along with his wife Mabel had recently started a similar freedom-based alternative on New York City's Lower East Side. There was no tuition because the founders wanted anyone to be able to attend, regardless of socioeconomic status. Instead, operating capital came from donations made by the few families with surplus income, a handful of unpredictable small grants, and constant grassroots fundraising. 
 
 
 
Homeschooled: How American Homeschoolers Measure Up
View the full infographic on our website to see how homeschoolers measure up!


  
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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

November 10, 2013 
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