Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) — Public support for charter schools, a component of President Barack Obama’s $100 billion education overhaul, rose to almost two-thirds of Americans this year even as most remained confused about what they are. Sixty-four percent of U.S. adults said they favor charter schools, up from 51 percent a year ago, Gallup Inc. [...]
Nineteen years ago, a group of Milwaukee-area teachers had a vision. They wanted not only to improve education in their own classrooms and schools, but to help shape reform throughout the public school system in the United States. Today that vision is embodied in Rethinking Schools.
This appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of Rethinking Schools (AERO’s ad is on page 53). Please visit their website at www.rethinkingschools.org for more information and to subscribe to their wonderful magazine! Please also see their ad in the upcoming issue of our magazine Education Revolution. Herbert Kohl is a contributor in AERO’s new book, [...]
We have written a good many times regarding the growing concerns related to America’s poor school completion rates. In addition to all the students who disappear from our school systems prior to ever reaching high school, current data also reveals that one of every four high school students fails to graduate within the standard four-year [...]
Downloadable and free, maybe–but the schoolhouse Wiki revolution will have to wait As California moves forward with the first open-source digital textbook program in the nation this fall, the best content seems a lot less like Wikipedia and a lot more like traditional publishing. TEXTBOOK 2.0: California’s free, digital textbook program is a good start, [...]
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Our educational system is essentially a Soviet-style government-run monopoly that could only be loved by the likes of Lenin and Stalin. Now, I know that’s a strong opening statement, but consider this: The government decides where your kids go to school; what curriculum they’ll study; and even develops long-term educational plans [...]
The 11th annual International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) took place in Troy, New York from July 16-July 24, 2003, hosted by The Free School (Albany) in association with AERO. By clicking the links below, you can listen to seventeen of these talks for free! You can order a two-CD set of the entire series of [...]
A.L.O. is about alternatives to compulsory schooling.
