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The Journal of Alternative Education, 1998. 550P DOCUMENT RESUME ED 433 989 RC 022 093 AUTHOR Leue, Mary, Ed. TITLE SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, 1998. ISSN ISSN-1056-9197 PUB DATE 1998-00-00 NOTE 550p.; Journal projected to change editor and journal name. Proposed name for successor journal: "Paths of Learning: Options for Families and Communities." Photographs may not reproduce adequately. For volume 14, see ED 424 040. For descriptions of selected individual articles, see EJ 559 945-954, EJ 569 224-225, EJ 574 222-224, and RC 513 217-221. AVAILABLE FROM Down-to-Earth Books, 72 Philip St., Albany, NY 12202. PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education; v15 n1-4 1998 EDRS PRICE MF02/PC22 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Appropriate Technology; *Attention Deficit Disorders; Discipline; *Educational Philosophy; *Educational Strategies; Elementary Secondary Education; *Nontraditional Education; *Open Education; Public Schools; Small Schools; Student Behavior; Student School Relationship; Teacher Student Relationship ABSTRACT The four issues of the journal SKOLE published in 1998 contain articles, personal narratives, and interviews about educational .inilosopny, small alternative schools, freedom and democratic practices in education, and the overuse of Ritalin in schools. Feature articles discuss holistic education, how classroom technology promotes passivity and perverts education, the true meaning of "discipline," a Japanese school modeled after Summerhill School, myths concerning attention deficit disorders and Ritalin, student meditation as a stimulus to creative writing, what teachers can do to ameliorate students' negative self-concept, "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" as a model for understanding human behavior, managing student behavior with drugs, revisioning professionalism in teaching, parent information on learning styles, supporting the parent-child relationship, the deficiencies of public schooling, a call to recover classical ideas of higher education, advice on essay writing for prospective college students, democracy in a new Florida charter school, cooperative community lifelong learning centers, and innovative practices in small community schools. Issues also include chapters from the 1949 book "Freedom in Education," by Elizabeth Ferm of the Stelton Modern School; letters from readers; book reviews; student writings; poetry; and descriptions of alternative education conferences. (SV) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** I I IS Om. U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement 'PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTEDBY CENTER (ERIC) WT-;:.-Isdocument has been reproduced as received from the person or organization rn originating it 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view or opimons stated in this aocu ment do not necessarily represent official O OE RI position or policy TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) rZS cameo.. Mr' AWENKOC.- `*.edr Sar<ChlifflaRintntWg RS- I 2 ESTCOPYAVAILABLE EKOAE the Journal of Alternative Education Editorial Staff Mary Leue, Chris Mercogliano, Betsy Mercogliano, Ellen Becker, Larry Becker, Connie Frisbee Houde, Frank Houde Publisher Down-to-Earth Books Photographs by Connie Frisbee Houde Printer Ed Hamilton, Celecom Corp. 375 Shaker Rd., E. Longmeadow, MA 01028 IICOAEis printed quarterly by Down-to-Earth Books,a spin-off of the Free School, 8 Elm St., Albany, NY 12202, an independent, non-profit, tax-exempt assoociation dedicated to the lives of children in families. Editorial and Subscription address 72 Philip St., Albany, NY 12202 Tel. (518) 432-1578; Fax (518) 462-6836 See our web page at http://www.lowmedia.com/AltEd/FreeSchool ISSN: 1056-9197 Copyright © 1986 by Down-to-Earth Books All rights reserved. Subscriptions, $24/yr., 2 yrs. $35; institutions $30/yr. Canada, add $4; overseas, add $8. Requests for permission to reprint should be made in writing. We welcome all reader contributions. Submit manuscripts to the editorial address above. Deadlines are November 1., February 1, May 1 and August 1. Send on a Mac disk if possible, or use black type, so we can scan. Advertising rates will be sent on request. If non-profit (or just broke), ask for special rates. TABLE OF CONTENTS FIRST PAGES: Editorial Comment READERS' SECTION: From Albert Lamb iii From Bree Edwards vii From Jerry Mintz: AERO Radio Show Goes PrimeTime viii From Nat Needle ix Three Questions for Educational Alternative-Seekers From Amy Cooke, News from Venice CommunitySchool xii From Willa Kline, TRIO, EOC xii From Pat Montgomery, Introducing Rabbi YehudahFine xiii TALKING ABOUT EDUCATION: Interview With Ron Miller, by Chris Mercogliano, EllenBecker and Mary Leue 1 The Moral Logic of Perpetual Evolution, John TaylorGatto 26 RevisiOning Discipline, by OrinDomenico 35 Celebrating The Difference: For Partial Vision inAlternative Education, by John Potter 2 53 The Treatment Philosophy Snowballs, by Matt Hem 58 Freedom In Education, Chapter I, Creative Developmentin Education, by Elizabeth Byrne Ferm 65 SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL PEOPLE: Notes From An East Hill Journal, by Jon Bliss 75 A Morning At East Hill School: Other Ways ofLearning, by Jack Coleman 77 THE INNOVATIVE CLASSROOM: Release The Body, Release The Mind, by MarthaGoff Stoner 80 Defusing The Messages That Rob Our Studentsof Their Intelli- gence, by John Lawry 86 THINKING ABOUT EDUCATION: Mr. Rogers And The Neighborhood As A Model ForUnder- standing Human Behavior, by Robert Kastelic 92 STUDENT WRITINGS: Fall From Grace, by Oliver Leue 97 Drawing by Sarah Lewis 97 REVIEWS: Two by Ellen Becker: Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories AffectYour Child, by Carol Bowman 98 Wonderful Ways To Love A Grandchild, by Judy Ford 102 The Silver Pencil, by Alice Dalgliesh, reviewed by ConnieFrisbee Houde 104 Oh Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy!: ConfrontingMotherhood, Womanhood & Selfhood In A Household Of Boys, byKarin Kasdin, reviewed by Mary Leue 106 Raising Kids With Just A Little Cash, by Lisa Reid,reviewed by Nancy Ost 109 JUST FOR FUN: Swami Beyondananda's Guide to Enlightenment 111 Computer Camp 112 THE LINK A HOMESCHOOL newspaper Vol. 3, Issue 1A national publication Circ: 10,000 Receive Free CopySte F-911, Newbury Park,Sew Workshop & much 91320 e-mail:more. Familieswith The Link is an eclecticCA honspaper©gte.net children are wdoomed to the homeschooling information beautiful Westlake Hyatt newspaper featuring writersComing June '98Hotel, 40 miles northwest of such as John Taylor Gatto, The Link's 2nd AnnualLos Angeles, making this a David & Mai Colfax and"kid comfortable" Home-great "getaway" for the homeschooling parents. h isschool Conference in South-entire family. We are a full resource place for all ern California! Featured willoffering an affordable family homesthoolen, regardleas of besuchgreatspeaker/lodging padcageWrite for lifephilosophy or religion.thinkersasJohnTaylordetails! Watch for more To receive a free copyGatto,SamBlumenfeld,speakerinformationand write to this address andDavid & Nficki Colfax, PA &registration forms in future mention SKOLE: The LinkDay Farenga, Richard "Littleissues of The Link. 587 N. Varau Park Road,Bear" Wheeler, Kids Can 5 EST COPY AVAALABLE EDITORIAL COMMENT I just received an e-mail from Albert Lamb telling me that Summerhill's Ena Neill had died. He sent a copy of his eulogy, which evokes her to the life! With her death, it feels as though an era is coming to a close, one in which the discovery for Americans in the 60s of the existence of a school as revolutionary as the Nei lls' Summerhill was a real beacon of hope for the future of our kids! This has been an amazing three months! I'm glad to say that the bad things that have occurred have been more than balanced off by the good ones, but still, these millennial times are often frightening, and no new beacons of hope seem to be rising to carry us through them. Good things first: We have a new web page for The Free School, crafted by Eddie Watson, who did John Potter's New School of Northern Virginia. It's GORGEOUS, and will be even better as time goes on and we add more links, so keep an eye out!: http://www.lowmedia.cont/AltEdFreeSchool Also, both EKOAE and the Journal of Family Life have received an outpouring of support from readers, for which we thank you profoundly! Even the FL, which sends out 5,000 copies per issue, more than half of them to distributorships, is coming closer and closer to being self-supporting, which is a miracle for such a new publication! And us EKOAE folks (mostly me on the financial and subscription side) are no longer agonizing over declines in either readership or revenues! It's never been a big cushion that we keep, but at least it's back to where it was before we started the Journal of Family Life and expanded our readership to include both journals! Barb Lundgren has given us her support as a possible ad man- ager, and she and we have begun receiving responses from y'all! Her yearly homeschooling gatherings in Texas have been a brilliant success, and that's good news! Do fill out the questionnaire she sent us with the last issue! As for bad thihgs, recently I was made forcibly aware that not everyone likes my personal editorial style! I'm not sure why that shocked me so deeplyperhaps because it came
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