Resources and Links

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Recommended Reading List
Education Websites
Community Member Websites

Downloads
Our Handbook and Guidelines are now available for download as a PDF document by clicking here!

Recommended Reading List
Please consider supporting The Alternative Education Resource Organization by purchasing books from them (most of the following titles are available on their online store). Some of these books are also available in bookstores and libraries (all may be bought online), as well as in our own school library. Please remember that these books do not represent the school's specific philosophy, but many do support it or are of interest in relation to alternative education.

Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto

The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto

How Children Fail by John Holt

Freedom and Beyond by John Holt

Escape From Childhood by John Holt

Instead of Education by John Holt

Deschooling Our Lives by Matt Hern

Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearing by A.S. Neil

Making It Up As We Go Along by Chris Mercogliano

Teaching the Restless by Chris Mercogliano

The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses by John Breeding, Ph.D.

Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich

Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn

Free at Last by Daniel Greenberg

Legacy of Trust by Mimsy Sadofsky & Daniel Greenberg

If there is a title that you feel should be included on this list, email us with full title & author, and we will consider adding it. Suggested titles should be relevant to the free schooling/ unschooling movement and should be of use to those trying to choose an educational path for themselves or for those trying to support the young people in their lives in making choices.

Education Websites

Alternative Education Revolution
John Taylor Gatto
John Holt and Growing Without Schooling
Rethinking Education Conference
AERO Conference
Albany Free School
Brooklyn Free School
Village Free School
Sudbury Valley School

Community Member Websites

HEAL (Health, Education, Advocacy & Literacy)
Bamboo Bodyworks
The Last Organic Outpost
www.myspace.com/sonicvisionshouston
www.myspace.com/thefrontisproject