No More 7Th Grade

NO MORE 7TH GRADES— “Vice-President from the famous Platoon Work-Study-Play System--a program open 50 weeks a year, 12 for Educational Heresy” hours a day, 7 days a week from 1907-1937— …………………The Kappan New still valid for 2010. ……with William Wirt --or any other grade levels ! $15.00 + $4.00 SH = $19.00 1. Educational Alternatives for Everyone (240 pages) Presents the rationale for choices Also and options for everyone in education and for Also new learning systems. Provides the history, new research, methods, descriptions, outcomes, ! new assessments on alternatives and cites over 1100 ! resource references. Books 2, 3, 4 as a Trilogy = $48.00 + $6.00 SH Eight Books $30.00 + $5.00 SH = $35.00

on 2. Creating Educational Futures (320 pages) Describes in detail the why, what, how, and 4. YRE: Paths to Resources (80 pages) Documents the 100-year history of year-round Educational Alternatives assessments of the program at the Wilson Campus School in Minnesota, considered the continuous learning from 1904 to 2002, summarizes what occurred each 20-year Educational Futures most experimental, comprehensive public school alternatives model in America. period, relates the supporting literature, and $22.00 + $4.00 SH = $26.00 Popular! cites over 700 bibliographic references. Continuous Learning Options Popular! ….. with David Mussatti. $15.00 + $3.00 SH = $18.00 Year-Round Education 3. Year-Round Education:History,Philosophy, Future (250 pages) Explains the reasons for the invention of twelve-month learning 5. NAYRE: A Historical Perspective (75pages) Processes of Change opportunities, offers a philosophy for Briefly reviews the growth of year-round continuous programs with balanced vacations learning and the pioneers who created the Educational Research throughout the year, presents diverse models, concept, and archives the current organization ______and cites the efforts of pioneers to break the responsible for implementation of YRE in over iron-cast system of education. 3000 schools. ….. with James Bingle by $20.00 + $4.00 SH = $24.00 $12.00 + $3.00 SH = $15.00

4. The Great Lockout in America’s Citizenship 7. Reflecting Year-Round Education: Traditions Don Glines Plants (180 pages) Looks at the past to and Innovations (65 pages) Provides a glossary envision the future of extended learning by for beginners of the 63 basics of traditional including the original manuscript and photos year-round implementation; offers non- beginners descriptions of exciting innovations in continuous learning that can make schools System in Gary Indiana, where from 1907 to significantly better. 1937 he was one of the most innovative and $10.00 + $3.00 SH = $13.00 controversial superintendents in the nation.

8. Year-Round Calendar and Enrollment Plans Dr. David Mussatti, co-author of YRE: Paths to (30 pages) Portrays 30 continuous learning Resources, (now retired), was a middle school calendar plans--with advantages and principal, college professor, and year-round disadvantages of each---and methods of consultant who specialized in analyzing enrollment for both multiple and single track available YRE research. options. It encourages creation of new designs. $7.00 + $3.00 SH = $10.00 James Bingle, co-author of NAYRE: Historical Perspective, (now retired), was a chemist, ABOUT THE AUTHORS township assessor, and President of the Valley View Illinois School Board during the era when the district was a model K-12 YRE district. Don Glines Ph.D. was cited in the Kappan as a Vice-President for Heresy. While director of the IALA PreK-12 Wilson Campus School and the 449 Desnoyer Avenue Minnesota State University (Mankato) St Paul MN 55104 experimental teacher education undergraduate and and graduate programs, The National Observer called him “the foremost apostle of educational NAYRE innovation,” and Wilson was labeled “probably PO Box 711386 the most innovative school in America.” A first San Diego CA 92171 recipient of the Four Seasons Hall of Fame Award for his work with continuous learning, he directed the California State Year-Round Education Program and now is Director, ABOUT THE CONTENTS Educational Futures Projects, Sacramento CA. Trailblazer Don Glines, and futurists like His previous books include Creating Humane him, think a totally new learning system is Schools, Implementing Different and Better Schools, necessary and inevitable. A Primer on Year-Round Education, and a five- …Roland Meighan, Education Now, Nottingham, England volume Educational Futures series. The books, with emphasis on a reform philosophy, illustrate that current William Wirt, co-author of The Great Lockout, revisionist platforms are not as visionary (now deceased), was creator of the Platoon as those implemented decades ago; they are an exemplary effort to apply the past to Phone (619) 276-5296 Fax (858) 571- the future. 5754 …Michael Marien, World Future Society, Bethesda Internet Access www.nayre.org MD

America’s most innovative educator describes what it takes to make all schools fabulously successful. ..Wayne Jennings, Brain-Based Networker, St. Paul MN

The contents are a monument to human imagination and hope for the future, describing one of the rare lifetime opportunities to contribute to a transformation. …Barbara Vogl, Change Management Systems, Soquel CA

These books represent a staggering collection…a goldmine of information… every school and university searching for innovative ideas should have copies. …Robert Anderson, Wingspan, Pedamorphosis, Tampa FL

ORDERING INFORMATION:

To order book #1, Educational Alternatives for Everyone, contact:: IALA (International Association for Learning Alternatives) 449 Desnoyer Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104 Phone: (651) 644-2805 Website: www.learningalternatives.net

To order any of books #2 through #8 contact:: NAYRE (National Association for Year-Round Education) PO Box 711386, San Diego CA 92171