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Vershire School, Summerhill School DOUBLE ISSUE THEEDUCATION REVOLUTION #32 Spring/Summer 2001 $4.95 With special CHANGING SCHOOLS section The Magazine of the Alternative Education Resource Organization (Formerly AERO-gramme) www.educationrevolution.org Some of the 1500 students, teachers and administrators at the Albany protest of high states testing and the New York State Regents exam P 3 CHANGING SCHOOLS section: P28 High States Testing, Interview with Bob Barr Contents: The Anti-Testing Movement Broadens .by Albert Lamb ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Alternative Education Action Groups, by Dana Bennis .................................................................................................................................................... 6 AERO Listserve Members Rescue Stork School ................................................................................................................................................................ 6 Sudbury Valley on 60 Minutes ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 AERO Matching Fund up to $8008 of $10,000 Needed ....................................................................................................................................................... 7 Report on the Israeli Democratic Education Conference ................................................................................................................................................ 8 Summerhill’s 80th and the 10th Anniversary of the First Festival of New Schools, Russia ........................................................................................... 8 Ouida Mintz breaks her hip .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 AERO 31 Feedback .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Feedback From AERO e-Newsletter....................................................................................................................................................................................10 MAIL AND COMMUNICATIONS, Edited by Carol Morley .............................................................................................................................................. 11 PUBLIC ALTERNATIVES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 14 INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND COMMUNICATIONS: Australia, Bolivis, Brazil, England, Germany, Guatamala, India, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Rus- sia, Scotland, Taiwan, Thailand, Venezuela ...................................................................................................................................................................... 16 HOME EDUCATION NEWS: Feedback from Hes Fes, Self Education Foundation, resource centers, unschooling, report from cross-section of homeschoolers in LI NY, Jenifer Goldman’s book, boarding school for homeschoolers ...........................................................................................19 ALUMNI NEWS: Shaker Mountain, Albany’s Free School, Kirkdale, Blue Mountain, Vershire School, Summerhill School ............................. 22 TEACHERS JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS: 36 listings ............................................................................................................................................................23 CONFERENCES: 9 listings ......................................................................................................................................................................................................27 CHANGING SCHOOLS SECTION Edited by Albert Lamb ..................................................................................................................28 Changing Schools and The Education Revolution: Partners for Four Years! by Jerry Mintz ....................................................................................28 High Stakes Testing By E Wayne Ross and Kevin D. Vinson, Bill Zimniewicz .............................................................................................................29 Bullying at Alternative Schools ............................................................................................................................................................................................30 The Albany Free School goes to Spain, by Free School Students ................................................................................................................................ 31 Lead Poisoning in Children .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 35 Home Birth and Alternative Education .............................................................................................................................................................................. 35 My Three Weeks at AERO, by Dana Bennis ......................................................................................................................................................................36 PING PONG STORY: Democratic process in a non-school setting, by Jerry Mintz ....................................................................................................37 Interview With Bob Barr .......................................................................................................................................................................................................41 Sharing Democratic Ideas, by Leonard Turton and others .............................................................................................................................................42 ADD/ADHD revisited ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................46 Book Reviews ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 Greg S. Goodman’s Alternatives in Education: Critical Pedagogy for Disaffected Youth (DB) ............................................................................... 47 A Clearer View, by Daniel Greenberg (SR) ........................................................................................................................................................................ 47 Homeschoolers’ College Admissions Handbook, by Cafi Cohen (SR) ..........................................................................................................................47 Towards a Critical Multicultural Literacy, by Danny K. Weil (DB) ................................................................................................................................. 47 Two New Editions of Homeschool Resource Books: ...................................................................................................................................................... 48 The Home School Source Book Jean and Donn Reed ....................................................................................................................................................48 Homeschooling Almanac 2002-2003, Mary and Michael Leppert (DB) ....................................................................................................................... 48 AERO Books, Videos, Subscription, Ordering Information ..............................................................................................................................................49 The Education Revolution The Magazine of the Alternative Education Resource Organization (Formerly AERO-gramme) 417 Roslyn Rd., Roslyn Heights, NY 11577 ISSN # 10679219 phone: 516-621-2195 or 800-769-4171 fax: 516-625-3257 e-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.educationrevolution.org Editor: Jerry Mintz Associate Editor: Albert Lamb Mail and Communications Editor: Carol Morley Director of Information and Communications: Steve Rosenthal Director of Research and Development: Dana Bennis Printer: Joel Hymowitz, Sir Speedy Printing, New Hyde Park, NY Webmaster: Peter Christopher ADVISORY BOARD Alexander Adamsky, Mary Addams, Chris Balch, Fred Bay, Patrice Creve, Anne Evans, Patrick Farenga, Phil Gang, John Gatto, Herb Goldstein, Dan Greenberg, Jeffrey Kane, Albert Lamb, Dave Lehman, Mary Leue, Ron Miller, Ann Peery, John Potter, Mary Anne Raywid, John Scott, Tim Seldin, Elina Sheppel, Andy Smallman, Sidney Solomon, Nick Stanton, Corinne Steele, Tom Williams People respect tests for seeming scientific and fair. More recently, over the last 25 years, mandated testing in schools has been grow- The Anti-Testing ing exponentially. Beginning in the seventies, with the minimal competency testing movement,
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