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SKOLE: the Journal of Alternative Education, 1997 DOCUMENT RESUME ED 424 040 RC 021 367 AUTHOR Leue, Mary, Ed. TITLE SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education,1997. ISSN ISSN-1056-9197 PUB DATE 1997-00-00 NOTE 565p.; Photographs will not reproduceadequately. For volume 13, see RC 021 116. Published quarterly. 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;v14 n1-4 1997 EDRS PRICE MF02/PC26 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Attention Deficit Disorders; CommunitySchools; Conflict Resolution; Educational History; *EducationalPhilosophy; *Educational Strategies; Elementary SecondaryEducation; Experiential Learning; Free Schools;Holistic Approach; Home Schooling; Imagination; Lifelong Learning;*Nontraditional Education; Open Education; PublicSchools; Small Schools ABSTRACT The four issues of the journal SKOLE publishedin 1997 contain articles, personal narratives, and interviewsabout small alternative schools, home schooling, educational history, thedeficiencies of publi'c education, and educational philosophy and innovations.Major articles include: "The Creatures They Are: Children BecomingTheir Nature" (about imagination)(Richard Lewis); "Eyeless in Gaza" (aboutliteracy)(John Taylor Gatto); "Notes on My Trip to Waabno Gamaak: HelpingTo Change a School from an Authoritarian to Democratic Process" (Jerry Mintz);"I Went to Seven Different Elementary Schools" (Arthur Gladstone);"Hanging On at the Edge of the World: Teaching Writing to Urban Special NeedsYouth" (Barbara Geis); "Breaking the Silence of Violence: TeachinaOur Children New Strategies" (Michael Massurin); "Sharing One Skin" (about theOkanagan Indian community) (Jeannette Armstrong); "So Are You a Teacher,or What?" (Bill Kaul); "Like China in the Bull Shop: Classroom AccidentsWaiting To Happen and Downshifting into Boredom" (Robert L. Kastelic,Kathleen McLinn); "Emily's Tree; Imagination and the Soul of Learning" (RichardLewis); "Competition, Conditioning, and Play" (John Chilton Pearce);"A School Must Have a Heart" (Chris Mercogliano); "Montessori & Steiner:A Pattern of Reverse Symmetries" (Dee Joy Coulter); "On Conflict Resolution" (BillKaul); "School Is Bad for Children" (John Holt); "'Partial Vision'in Alternative Education" (Ron Miller); "Impatience" (John Potter);"It Takes a Community" (Sarah Scott); "The Different Drum: COmmunity Makingand Peace" (M. Scott:Peck); "Why I Believe Attention Deficit DisorderIs a Myth" (Thomas Armstrong); "Elizabeth Byrne Ferm, 1857-1947" (Alexis C. Ferm);"Our Solar-Heated Bio-Dome" (Ted Strunck, Jane Strunck); "RadicalDemocracy and Our Future: A Call to Action" (John Taylor Gatto); "'Lifelong Learning':A Holistic View" (Nathaniel Needle); and "Receding Yet Again. ThenDissolving into Imaginary Gelatin" (about teaching)(Bill Raul). This journal also contains poems, student writings, interviews, lettersto the editor, and reviews of books and videos. (SAS) MI =II I - Taeii-,l- U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and tmprovement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND CENTER (ERIC) DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS 6(This document has been reproduced as BEEN GRANTED BY received from the person or organization originating it . CI Minor changes have been made to ill1, etke, improve reproduction quality Points of view or opinions stated in this TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES document do not necessarily represent INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) official OERI position or policy A 1 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 Connie Frisbee Houde, Betsy Mercogliano Printers Ed Hamilton, Celecom Corp. 375 Shaker Rd., E. Longmeadow, MA 01028 Cover, KNE Printing, 439 N. Pearl St., Albany, NY IKOAEis 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 ISSN: 1056-9197 Copyright © 1996 by Down-to-Earth Books All rights reserved. Subscriptions, $20/yr., 2 yrs. $30; institutions $25/yr. 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 October 15, January 15, April 15 and July 15. Send on a Mac disk if possible, or use good black type, so we can scan. Advertising rates will be sent on request. If non-profit, ask for special rates. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS First pages: Editorial Comment Special Readers' Section Two Interviews by Chris Mercogliano and Mary Leue: Fragment of an Interview with Governor Mario Cuomo 1 Interview With Richard Lewis, Part I 5 The Creatures They Are, by Richard Lewis 16 Eyeless In Gaza Part I, from The Empty Child, by John Taylor Gatto 21 Notes on my Trip to Waabno Gamaak, by Jerry Mintz 35 I Went To Seven Different Elementary Schools, by Arthur Gladstone 44 Hanging on at the Edge of the World, by Barbara Geis 46 Breaking the Cycle of Violence, by Michael Massurin 64 Sharing One Skin, by Jeannette Armstrong 70 So Are You a Teacher, or What?, by Bill Kaul 82 Reviews: Celebrating Girls, by Virginia Beane Rutter, reviewed by Nancy Leue 92 Raising a Thinking Child Workbook, by Myrna B. Shure with Theresa Foy Digeronimo, reviewed by Peter Leue 94 Wonderful Ways To Love A Teen, Even When It See Ms Impossible, by Judy Ford, reviewed by Ellen Becker 95 Four Reviews, by Chris Mercogliano: Screen Smarts, A Family Guide to Media Literacy, by Gloria De Gaetano and Kathleen Bander 98 Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment, by James Garbarino.... 100 Compulsory Education and Human Learning: The Moral Failure of Public Education in America and Japan, edited by Day le M. Bethel.. 101 Perspectives In Multicultural Education, edited by Carlos A. Bonilla, I'h.D. and Dale H Scott, J.D 103 Announcement from AERO: a Summer Camp in the Pyrenees 105 An Open Letter from the Consciousness Movement, Luvmours et al 107 Editorial Comment from Challenging the Giant, volume III, by Mary Leue.111 Just for Fun 114 EDITORIAL COMMENT We are uniquely honored to have in this issue of EKOAE the gracious contributions of three New York City luminaries from widely differing fields of experience in relation to the issue of chil- dren and learning. First comes a fragment of our interview with our former neighbor, ex-governor Mario Cuomo (for the Journal of Family Life) which reflects his humanistic oversight of the lives of New York's children, and most particularly, the lives of children like the child he himself once was, whose vulnerability and need cry out so clearly for nurturing attention! The entire interview can be seen in the winter issue of the JFL. See page eighty for both an ad and for information on how to order this issue or a subscrip- tion. The second illustrious contributor is Richard Lewis, whose work with children in conducting his Touchstone Center in New York I have admired for over a decade! Our interview with him involved his making a trip up the Hudson by train, which he tells us he loved doing because it brought back the pleasure he once felt making that same trip to and from New York as an undergraduate at Bard College in Poughkeepsie, midway between the two cities. The third contribution comes from our dear friend John Taylor Gatto, that passionate uncaped crusader and seeker for the truth about institutional schooling and the real extent of the damage en- gendered thereby to our democracy itself which informs every word he writes! This piece, taken from the fourteenth chapter of his forthcoming book, The Empty Child, is no exception! We count ourselves astoundingly fortunate to be able to call John our friend! Other articles in this issue which follow these three notable pieces may not involve quite the same level of public recognition, but are no less relevant to the concerns of families with children, no less poignantly heartfelt. It's an outstanding issue! But wait! er free tt- The glory of this issue of IKOAE so far in no way must be al- lowed to overshadow another dazzling event that has occurred to us editors/publishers at Down-to-Earth Books in a (to me) totally mysterious and magical concatenation of circumstancesan event I can only present epigrammatically, chronologically AND graphi- cally if we are to grasp its full scope. Herewith: Some are 6orn oreat; some ackieve ereatnees; and samekove ereatness %rust Lvon tkeft4 ...Or so I choose to think about what has happened to us, the publishers of our two quarterly journals! Substitute "recognition" for "greatness," and it may make more sense to you. Which would be good, since it still hasn't sunk in with us! Not fully!It's like a dream come true! I'm still reeling, pinching myself every hour on the hour! My oldest son Bill is a software researcher/designer for GE's medical viewing systemsCAT-scan, MRI and a new one in progress based on ultrasound. So he has astounding know-how PLUS highly sophisticated equipment to work with. And he's a computer languages specialist. So ... what would be like unaided levitation to the moon for me to consider, let alone accomplish, Bill has done seemingly effortlessly and in the twinkling of an eye! I think it actually took a lot longer, but he did it so gracefully and without demonstrating an iota of braggadocio, it seemed a twin- kling to me! Well, that's the start of this miracle, and Would be, seemingly, enough, one would think. But along comes Kirsten Holmquist- Sutherland from the University of Chicago, with whom I've been in correspondence by e-mail ever since she and Todd came to the Berkshire Live-out last summer, and put me in touch with Monica and Mike Bonney, who are setting up a Web page for the Sudbury Valley schools.
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