Alternative Education: Index for SKOLE
 
Challenging the Giant Volume I 
EDITORIAL COMMENT:
 Why SKOLE? Statement of Principles Behind the Name and its Role in the
History of Alternative Schooling, by Mary Leue, Editor of SKOLE............................ii
 
PROFILED SCHOOLS:
 First Days of Shaker Mountain School, by Jerry Mintz.............................................................1
Subleties of a Democratic School - Sudbury Valley School, by Dan Greenberg....................11
 Metropolitan School of Columbus: A Twenty Year Perspective on Alternative Schools,
from One Person's Experience, by Lucia Vorys...............................................................29
The History of the Free School, by Mary Leue............................................................................38
 L'Ecole d'Humanité; Learning Without Fear, by Ernst Scagnet.............................................76
Central Park East: an Alternative Story, by Deborah Meier....................................................88
 
ARTICLES:
 "To Live (and Thus to Learn) These Truths": Teaching the American Constitution, by Dave .............Lehman......................................................................................................................................98
Learning, Relationships and 'Burnout,' by Rosalie Angela Bianchi..........................................110
Alternative Schools in Early America, by Ron Miller................................................................117
Alternative & Conventional Education from theViewpoint of a User, Sam McPheeters...122
Homeschooling and John Holt's Vision, by Pat Farenga............................................................125
Robots Building Robots? by Mary Leue.........................................................................................140
Children's Theater, by Chris Mercogliano....................................................................................151
Refuting Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, by Dave Lehman................156
Educating for Peace, by Phil Gang................................................................................170
Why Schools Don't Educate, by John.........................................................................175
The Energetic Starvation of Children, by Alan J. Schwartz..................................................185
Coalition as Community, by Chris Mercogliano............................................................................197
A Humanitarian is Always a Hypocrite, by Terry Doran..........................................................214
Children at Risk, by Jonathan Kozol..............................................................................................217
The Pulse of Learning, by Robert Lewis.......................................................................................219
The Art of Doing Nothing, by Hanna Greenberg........................................................................224
An Education Money Can't Buy, by Gene Lehman........................................................................229
Movement in Education, by David Boadella..................................................................................232
Lake Forget-Me-Not, by Dardis McNamee..................................................................................246
 
POEMS:
Haikus: Fanon Frazier, David Daniels, Libby Carivan..................................................................75
Grandmother, by Jenifer Miller......................................................................................................109
Where Do I begin, by Meighan Carivan..........................................................................................213
Mandi Bus Station, by Mary Leue...................................................................................................249
 
STUDIES:
Jean Piaget, B. F. Skinner and John Dewey, a Study of Learning,Teaching and.Schooling, by
Rosalie Angela Bianchi...........................................................................................................250
A Comparison of Schooling and Home Schooling, by Brian Ray..................................................306
 
BOOK REVIEWS:
Rachel and her Children, by Jonathan Kozol..................................................................................343
Learning Is: A Moving Experience, by Teresa Benzwie..............................................................345
Child's Work, by Nancy Wallace......................................................................................................349
 
Challenging the Giant Volume II  
Introduction.............................................................................................................................................i
SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL PEOPLE
The Emergence of The Arthur Morgan School, by Ernest Morgan................................................1
Inside Shaker Mountain School: Democratic School Governance, Jerry Mintz.......................11
The Soule School, an Elementary Alternative, by Mabel Dennison.............................................20
Two by Sandy Hurst on Upattinas:
Why Upattinas? by Sandy Hurst............................................................................................26
Traveling With Students, by Sandy Hurst...........................................................................31
Two by Emanuel Pariser on the Community School:
A Day In The Life: The Community School, by Emanuel Pariser.....................................40
Elements of a Supportive Educational Environment..........................................................51
From Gadfly to Mainstream: The New Orleans Free SchoolTwenty Years Later, by Bob Ferris.
.......................................................................................................................................................55
Nurturing Spiritual Growth in Teenagers:The Meeting School, Judith Randall.....................60
New Salem Academy: Alternative Schools: Who Are We Now? by Nat Needle......................74
John Potter on Somerset School:Welcome Address to Somerset Small Schools Conference
.......................................................................................................................................................79
The Alternative Community School (ACS) in Ithaca, New York..................................................83
Two by Dave Lehman on ACS:
The Alternative Community School: the Healthy Side of Exhaustion............................86
Changing Adolescents in the 80's: Toward Freedom and Responsibility........................92
The Sudbury Valley School (from the catalog)..............................................................................102
Two by Dan Greenberg on Sudbury Valley:
Sudbury Valley School.............................................................................................................106
A New Look at Learning..........................................................................................................116
Six From The Free School:
Alternative School Conference in Japan, by Chris Mercogliano....................................130
Kids, Democracy and Community, by Chris Mercogliano....................................................132
Shared Spaces, by Betsy Mercogliano.................................................................................140
Creativity, by Charlene Therrien..........................................................................................145
"Whaddya Mean, Free?" by Mary Leue.................................................................................152
The Free School Community as Learning Resource for Conscious Living......................157
Two on The Planet School (in Kyoto, Japan):
The Free School And The Planet School, by Keiko Yamashita.........................................166
Interview: Yamashita Keiko, Kathy Arlyn Sokol and Stephen Suloway.........................169
Three on Homeschooling:
How to Get an Education at Home, by Pat Farenga...........................................................173
Learning From my Mother, Learning From my Daughters, Kate Kerman........................180
Homeschooling; A Personal Experience, by Hannah Lapp..................................................185
Two on Summerhill:
The Experience of Summerhill, by Albert Lamb.................................................................190
The Ecology of Childhood, by Matthew Appleton...............................................................200
Two on Froebelian Education:
An Experience in Froebel's Garden: Addison Gardens, a London Inner City School, by
..............Elizabeth S. Cole..........................................................................................................211
"Lasst Uns Unsern Kindern Leben!" by John Froebel-Parker...........................................218
Three on the Modern School Movement:
The New Jersey Modern School, Stelton, NJ Jo Ann Wheeler Burbank......................221
Community Schools, by Jon Thoreau Scott..........................................................................225
"La Farigola," Recollections, by Pura Perez.........................................................................230
Hawthorne Valley Farm School (a Waldorf School):
"In the Belly of the Dragon" by Kathleen Young................................................................235
The Learning Community: a Short-lived Diocesan "School Within a School," contributed by a
former student..........................................................................................................................240
 
LITERARY OUTBURSTS
Poems by Six Free School Children:..................................................................................................149
Truth, by Alyssa Zienkowicz
A Poem, by Monique Roberts
A Poem, by Eve Minehan
I Wish, by Elisha Mittleman
My Dream, by Lily Mercogliano
A Poem, by Gabrielle Becker
Tribute To John Holt, by Danette, Bridget and Socorro Finn...................................................179
Quote from a Dominie's Log on Being a Teacher, by A.S. Neill ...............................................194
Children Learn What They Live, by Dorothy Law Nolte.............................................................284
What They Learn in School, By Jerome Stern..............................................................................320
The Yellow Picture (Author Unknown).............................................................................................343
 
MODEL-BUILDING
Designing Alternatives For Success: From the Hofstra University Center for
the Study of Educational Alternatives...............................................................................244
The Learning Society, By RobertTheobald......................................................................................246
Elements Of The Holistic Education Vision, By The Founding Members Of The Global Alliance
For Transforming Education (GATE)....................................................................................265
 
ARTICLES
Two by John Taylor Gatto
We Need Less School, Not More..........................................................................................267
"How Did We Ever Come to Believe that the State Should Tell Our Children What to
..............Think?"..........................................................................................................................285
Two on John Dewey:
The Still Living Message of John Dewey, by William H. Leue.......................................293
Would Dewey Make Children Learn in School? by Charlotte N. Landvoigt..................296
Two by Gene Lehman:
Are We Myth-Taken About Education? by Gene Lehman..................................................304
Challenging the Great Chain of Education, by Gene Lehman............................................307
Ron Miller: The Difficulty of Building Coalitions in Alternative Education: Lessons from
Holistic Education Review.......................................................................................................311
Leslie Hart: Moving From "Logic" to Brain Compatibility...........................................................317
Ted Sizer: Rebuilding: First Steps: The Coalition of Essential Schools.................................322
John Janitor (Carroll): The English Speak English and the Zucaninos Zulan Zucanino.......333
Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Organic Teaching,......................................................................................338
Pythia Peay: The Singing Sword: Images Guide Adolescents' Journeys....................................345
Marie Winn: New Views of Human Intelligence..............................................................................351
 
REVIEWS
by Betsy Mercogliano:
Six Alternative Education Periodicals:.................................................................................359
Home Education Magazine
Growing Without Schooling
Rethinking Schools
Holistic Education Review
National Coalition of Altemative Community Schools News
 
Challenging the Giant Volume III 
Editorial Camment........................................................................................................................................i
 
SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL PEOPLE:
Ted Strunck, Upland Hills School, The Bridge......................................................................................1
Alice Girard, Rockland Project School, Reunion..................................................................................15
Jonathan Bliss, East Hill School, Schooling as if Children Mattered...........................................21
Vic Krysten, New School of Northern Virginia, From an Assistant Director's Desk..............27
Dana Nichols, Kohl Open School in Forefront of Educational Reform..........................................30
Jeff Goldman, Arthur Morgan School as an Educational Model......................................................32
Kuniko Kato, Children's Village: The Evolution of an Alternative School....................................36
Joel Weber, Child Rearing and Leaming, Education for 'The Real World"....................................39
Annual Report by the Staff, The Community School, Camden, Maine..............................................44
Franklin & Betty Parker, Myles Horton of Highlander.....................................................................50
John Potter, Homer Lane and Self-Government.................................................................................64
Zoe Readhead, A. S. Neill as a Father, A Personal Memory.............................................................73
Matthew Appleton, Surnmerhill, A Children's Culture.....................................................................76
 
TEACHING AND LEARNING
Bill Kaul, Some Notes Toward a Practical Impractical Curriculum..............................................83
John Taylor Gatto, Letter to the Fetzer Institute's Teacher Formation Program.................86
Robert L. Kastelic, Take a Hike.............................................................................................................94
Chris Mercogliano:
Concentration...............................................................................................................................100
Metaphors Within Metaphors...............................................................,....................................111
The Therapeutic School.............................................................................................................124
Fear................................................................................................................................................141
Nat Needle: Letter on Fear.................................................................................................................155
Ten Principles of Holistic Education.....................................................................................158
Holly I. Engel, Madalyne.......................................................................................................................170
Free School Graduates'Memoirs:
Mark Leue, My School Years....................................................................................................175
Kayland Mittleman, Life During and After the Free School..............................................181
Meighan Carivan, Meighan's Free School...............................................................................183
John Lester, The Best Things in Life are Free...................................................................184
Audry Camacho, An Education for Life..................................................................................187
Kaleb Camacho, Far Out............................................................................................................188
Ethan Manning, The Turning Point in my Life......................................................................190
 
TEACHING AND LEARNING AT HOME
Richard Prystowsky, Am I Really Qualified to Teach my Children?............................................192
Linda Dobson, Education Truths.........................................................................................................200
Barry Neill Kaufman, Son-Rise: The Miracle Continues................................................................204
Told by her Father John: Julie's Story................................................................................214
Pat Montgomery, Hail To The Victors: Home Educators of Michigan........................................217
Home Education in Japan..........................................................................................................221
Pat Farenga, Schooling+Diploma = jobs?...........................................................................................224
Kate Kerman, Push-Hands and Parenting...........................................................................................229
 
HISTORY OF INNOVATIVE EDUCATION
John Chodes, The Lancaster System, an Alternative to Public Schools....................................232
 Ron Miller, The Transcendentalists, Humanistic Educators of the Early ............Nineteenth.Century...................................................................................................................240
 
STUDENT WRITINGS
Kaleipaedeia House Students:
Timmy Maragni, Save the Atmosphere..................................................................................,249
Sara Schultz, Damage...............................................................................................................250
May Brinn-Beers, Save the Rainforest.................................................................................252
Lauren Cahoon, Lemurs in Peril...............................................................................................253
Isaac Furbush-Bayer, Save the Whales................................................................................255
Rebecca Furbush-Bayer, Help Save the European Wolf....................................................256
Darius Lind, Save the Whooping Crane.................................................................................257
Zacchary Lind, Saving This Special Hawaiian Bird ..........................................................259
 
The Free School: Mary's History of Religions Class:
Elisha Mittleman........................................................................................................................260
Eve Minehan.................................................................................................................................261
Gabrielle Becker.........................................................................................................................262
Joe Mastantuoni.........................................................................................................................263
Lilian Mercogliano.......................................................................................................................164
Ted Becker...................................................................................................................................266
.Arthur Morgan School:
Amelia Rose Brommer,The Undertow......................................................................................268
Beyond My Sandy Toes..............................................................................................................272
Non-school-related writings:
...........Gabrielle Becker,The Brave Cows............................................................................................275
.........Poem, Beauty Held.............................................................................................................278
..........Ted Becker, Two Poems:
........And Sometimes....................................................................................................................278
.......The Soul of the Holocaust..................................................................................................27
..........Ian Leue:
........Human Catcher......................................................................................................................28
........Human Catcher's Uncle.....................................................................................................286
.......The Blind Mouse...................................................................................................................294
.......Time Machine........................................................................................................................300
........Review: Jacob's Rescue, by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin..........................306 
Madeline Leue, Poem:
........Where Are Witches?........................................................................................................307
 
SOCIAL CHANGE AND COMMENT
John Taylor Gatto: A Map, A Mirror, and a Wristwatch.............................................................308
Nine Assumptions of Schooling-and Twenty-one Facts the Institution Would ..........
Rather Not Discuss..................................................................................................................329
Confederacy Of Dunces: the Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling.................................................339
Some Thoughts on the National Socialization of Children...........................................................356
Bill Kaul:
Some Notes Toward A Disintegrative Educational Non-System....................................368
Welcome To School, Prison, Compound, Whatever...............................................................371
 
BATTLE OF THE TITANS
Dan Sullivan, Greens And Libertarians.............................................................................................377
Ron Miller, Review: Dumbing Us Down, by John Taylor Gatto......................................................384
John Taylor Gatto, Reply To Ron Miller............................................................................................391
Chris Mercogliano: Comment on the Debate......................................................................................401
 
THE PLIGHT OF OUR CHILDREN 
Claire Saffian, What It's Really Like to be Black.........................................................................402
Linda Iglesias, The Streets Take A Son...........................................................................................409
Kevin Powell, Two Schools.....................................................................................................................417
Bill Kaul, Helpless Rage, Hopeless Love............................................................................................420
Dayle Bethel:
Modem Culture and the Peer Socialization Myth................................................................423
Visual Media and Childhood's Developmental Needs..........................................................429
 
COMMUNITY AS SCHOOL AS COMMUNITY
Emanuel Pariser, Intimacy, Connectedness and Education...........................................................434
 Alan Bonsteel, Schools of Choice as Communities........................................................................449
Ernest Morgan, Dimensions of Community......................................................................................454
Mary Leue, Building Community in a Pluralistic Society..............................................................461
Connie Frisbee-Houde, Old Rhinebeck Kids......................................................................................476
 
REVIEWS
Joseph Pearl, There Are No Children Here, by Alex Kotlowitz..................................................478
Savage Inequalities, by Jonathan Kozol...........................................................................................479
Mary Anne Raywid, Why Do These Kids Love School?, Video by Dorothy ...........Fadiman..........................................................................................................................................481
Chris Mercogliano, Small School Newsletters:...............................................................................488
Living Education, Oak Meadow
Family Learning Exchg., (Flex)
Michael Traugot, False Choices? Why School Vouchers Threaten Our Children's Future, From
Changing Schools.......................................................................................................................489
 
Challenging the Giant Volume IV 
Editorial Comment......................................................................................................................................i
 
TALKING ABOUT EDUCATION:
Interview with Richard Lewis, by Chris Mercogliano and Mary Leue.............................................1
Interview With Jon Scott, by Chris Mercogliano, Larry Becker and Mary Leue.....................18
Interview With Ron Miller, by Chris Mercogliano, Ellen Becker and Mary Leue.....................39
Interview with Akira by his father, John Potter: Kinokuni Children's Village:
A Child's View (in two parts)...................................................................................................65
Interview with Professor Urie Bronfenbrenner, by Chris Mercogliano and Mary ............Leue................................................................................................................................................79
Interview with Dayle Bethel: Why Alternative Education?.........................................................94
Interview with Jonathan Kozol, by the SKOLE staff..................................................................108
 
SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL PEOPLE: 
Adventures Among the Granola People, by Adam Adler...................................................................115
It Takes a Community, by Sarah Scott.............................................................................................128
A Morning At East Hill School, by Jack Coleman...........................................................................134
 PSCS: Rooted in Joy, Supported by Growth and Nurtured by Community, by Robin.Martin..137
 
TEACHING AND LEARNING:
Our Experiment with Democracy, by Ted and Jane Strunck.........................................................144
Teaching at an Alternative School in Russia, by Ananda Kantner.................................................146
"Lifelong Learning": A Holistic View, by Nathaniel Needle..........................................................149
The Artist Within by Scott Hathaway...............................................................................................156
Retrospective Musings, by John Potter..............................................................................................159
Revisioning Discipline, by Orin Domenico...........................................................................................162
Transmitting Life: Revisioning Professionalism in Teaching, Orin Domenico.............................179
 
SCHOOL AS COMMUNITY AS SCHOOL: 
Sharing One Skin, by Jeannette Armstrong.......................................................................................194
Caritas in the Classroom, by John D. Lawry......................................................................................199
Face Value: Arthur Morgan School from the Viewpoint of a Former Student, by Paul Houde..........................................................................................................................................................206
An Eulogy for Ena Neill, by Albert Lamb...........................................................................................209
 
HISTORY AND CHARACTER OF INNOVATIVE EDUCATION:
Freedom In Education, by Elizabeth Byrne Ferm...............................................................................214
Introduction: Elizabeth Byrne Ferm 1857-1944: A Biographical Note. Alexis C. Ferm.214
Chapter 1, Creative Development in Education......................................................................225
Chapter 5, Who Wins?.................................................................................................................232
Cooperative Community Learning Centers, by Bill Ellis...................................................................236
 
ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION CONFERENCES:
Fear And Trembling At The International Alternative Education Conference, by.Emanuel ...............Pariser..........................................................................................................................................243
Commentary on a Commentary, by Chris Mercogliano.........................................................................256
A Dramatic Time In Israel, by Jerry Mintz.......................................................................................259
Alternative Education Conference in Japan, by Sandy Hurst, Upattinas Resource Center...........................................................................................................................................................262
 
TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: 
Release The Body, Release The Mind, by Martha Goff Stoner..........................................................267
How To Construct A Good, College-Level Essay, by Richard Prystowsky.......................................274
Has Higher Education Abandoned Its Students? by William Willamon...........................................281
 
SOCIAL CHANGE AND COMMENTARY: 
Digging in the Ground, by Orin Domenico..............................................................................................291
The Scientific Management Of Children, by John Taylor Gatto.......................................................311
 
EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES COME IN MANY SHAPES: 
Vital Questions For Families To Ponder: Jerry Mintz'AERO survey............................................333
"Partial Vision" in Alternative Education, by Ron Miller..................................................................336
Celebrating the Difference; for Partial Vision in Alternative Education, by John.Potter.......342
 
THE PLIGHT OF OUR CHILDREN:
Rid-A-Him, Intro Chapters 1- 4 by Chris Mercogliano......................................................................348
Commentary On Rid-A-Him, by Emanuel Pariser..................................................................................370
Childhood as Disease, by Dr. Edward Hamlin........................................................................................412
 
REVIEWS:
The Teenage Liberation Handbook, by Grace Llewellyn, reviewed by Josh Hornick....................413
The Modem School Movement by Paul Avrich, reviewed by Chris Mercogliano..............................416
Summerhill School.-, A New View of Childhood, by A.S. Neill, ed. Albert Lamb,.reviewed by Chris
Mercogliano.....................................................................................................................................418
Amazing Grace, by Jonathan Kozo(, reviewed by Mary Leue.............................................................420
Oh Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy, by Karin Kasdin. reviewed by Mary Leue................................................424
A Life in School, or What the Teacher Learned, by JaneTompkins, reviewed by Mary Leue....428
Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman. reviewed by Chris Mercogliano................................432
Natural Learning Rhythms, by Josette and Sambhava Luvmour, reviewed Chris Mercogliano..433
Reviving Ophelia, by Mary Pipher, reviewed by Nancy Ost..............................................................435
The Wildest Colts MakeThe Best Horses, by John Breeding, reviewed by Chris.Mercogliano.438
Children's Past Lives, by Carol Bowman, reviewed by Ellen Becker................................................442
 
STUDIES:
Japan's Education: A Time for Change, by John Potter....................................................................446
Full inclusion, a Study of Integrated Special Education Students in Regular .Classrooms, by
.......... Rodney E. Machado M.S. Sp. Ed by Anthony D. Belew,.Michelle and Allyn Cunha..............463
 
HUMOR 
Just For Fun (sent by Robert Kastelic)................................................................................................476
Buttered Cats and Other Mysteries (sent by Andy Smallman)........................................................476
Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide! The Invisible Killer (sent by Tom Leue)................................................471
Deep Thoughts.............................................................................................................................................479
Where Does Wisdom Come From?............................................................................................................481
 
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