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Report No Pub Date Note Available from Journal DOCUMENT RESUME ED 399 099 RC 020 473 AUTHOR Leue, Mary M., Ed.; And Others TITLE SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, 1995. REPORT NO ISSN-9100-1139 PUB DATE 95 NOTE 567p.; For.Volumes 10 and 11, see RC 020 007-008. Published quarterly. AVAILABLE FROM Down-to-Earth Books, 72 Philip St., Albany, NY 12202-1729. PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education; v12 n1-4 1995 EDRS PRICE MF02/PC23 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Child Rearing; *Childrens Writing; Compulsory Education; Conformity; *Educational Experience; Educational Philosophy; *Educational Practices; *Educational Principles; Elementary Secondary Education; *Free Schools; Home Schooling; *Nontraditional Education; Public Education; Relevance (Education); Small Schools; Teaching Experience IDENTIFIERS Student Empowerment ABSTRACT The four issues of "Skole" published in 1995 include articles examining alternatives to public education and the value of free schools. Free schools offer an unstructured curriculum in which comparisons between students are eliminated and students are empowered to be responsible for their learning. Proponents of this approach to education believe that public schools fail by maintaining the status quo and suppressing student abilities through conformist educational practices. Articles cover the disadvantages and outcomes of compulsory public education; developing a relevant curriculum that encourages critical thinking; home schooling; the political aspects of public education; parent information on child rearing; effective teaching practices; teaching children values; and book and film reviews. Two of the journal issues are devoted to writings and other work by students at the Free School in Albany, New York. These writings represent student learning, creative writing projects, and student educational experiences. (LP) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND Othce of Educational Research and Improvement DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) HAS BEEN GRANTED BY cif document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization MartifY\ originating it 0 M,nor changes have been made to improve reproduchon Quality cke, Points of new or 0Ornions stated m MIS deco- menl do not necessarily represent official TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES OERI position or policy, INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) , ' 41111 BEST COPYAVAILABLE %Of:ter/1995VoL E OAE the ty -Alternative Education Editorial Staff Ellen Becker Lawrence Becker Connie Frisbee Houde Mary Leue Betsy Mercogliano Chris Mercogliano Advertising Group Connie Frisbee Houde Chris Mercogliano Publisher Down-to-Earth Books Photographs Connie Frisbee Houde Betsy Mercogliano Printer Ed Hamilton, Celecom Corp. 375 Shaker Rd., East Longmeadow, MA 01028 EKOAE is published 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 association dedicated to the lives of children in families Editorial and Subscription Address: 72 Philip Street, Albany, NY 12202 Tel. (518) 432-1578; Fax: 462-6863 ISSN: 91-001139 Subscriptions: $18 per year, 2 years, $30; one year's subscription free with a one year's subscription toThe Journal of Family Life.See advertise- ment in this issue for more information on the JFL. Copyright @ 1995 by Down-to-Earth Books. All rights reserved. Requests for permission to reprint should be made in writing to the above address. We welcome all reader contributions. Submit manuscripts to the editorial address above. Advertising rates will be sent on request. 3 Contents Round Robin The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling, by John Taylor Gatto 1 Japan's Education: A Time for Change, by John Potter.. 16 Two by Bill Kaul: Some Notes Toward a Disintegrative Educational Non-system 39 Some Notes Toward a Practical/Impractical Cur- riculum 43 Am I Really Qualified to Teach my own Children?: Some Thoughts on This Common and Provocative Question, by Richard Prystowsky 47 .Fear, byChris.Mercogliano 58 The United States of America: A Social Diagnosis, by Andre Houle 78 Ernest & Christine Morgan Mid-year Letter 94 Tribute to Griscom Morgan 100 Excerpts from LUND, by Gene Lehman 103 Two by Mohammad Yadegari: Western Hypocrisy 114 Reading by the Pool 117 Prayer for the Unemployed 122 Rena Fielding on Motherhood and the NCACS confer- ence, Spring, 1994 123 Humor 129 NCACS in the Past: Report by the National Secretary, Jerry Mintz..131 ROUND ROBIN Guess what! This is to introduce our new editorial staff and format! We're planning to begin publishing MICOAE on a quarterly basis from now on, each issue devoted to a single theme, and containing a smaller quantity of reading material. The subject of education is too important to be taken lightly, so we hope to enhance the relevance of the new version of /KOAE to our national family issues. Let us know how you like it! Write us an article! Mary Leue As a mother, a midwife and a woman, I am excited to add my input and thoughts to this great journal that is grappling with the issues of education. Education and creativity have so many forms, just as families and births have many facetsall unique yet sharing a common humanityI look forward to exploring this with you in /ICOAE. Betsy Mercogliano Hello!I have been a teacher at The Free School in Albany, N.Y. for twenty-one years and co-director for eight. My commitment to children and to furthering our understand- ing of fundamental life processes like learning and human development appears to be life-long, and joining Mary in bringing you IKOAEis just a natural extension of that commitment. A frequent contributor to IKOAE over the past eight years; now as a member of a larger editorial team, I look forward to the opportunity to help make this important journal even more energetic than evera tall order, I realize! Chris Mercogliano When I was a kid, I was sure that education occurred only within the four walls of public school beginning at 9 AM and 5 ending at 3 PM. When I wasn't actually enjoying myself in school with something I found exciting on my own terms, the. game I and many of my classmates played was to resist as much as possible and to do just enough to get by. Whew! and Wow! I'm honored to join the editorial staff of /MAE, where the institutionalized schemes of education are examined and challenged, innovators in education are given a forum, learn- ing is acknowledged as something that goes on all the time, and children are seen as people. Larry Becker Hello! I'm joining the editorial staff of ZICOAEand what a privilege it is. IKOAE is more important than ever in getting out the word about what education can be like. Today, when so many of us (like myself) have been educated in the public school system, and enured to the damage it often routinely does to children's sense of themselves, IKOAE is filled with articles and individual stories saying, "It doesn't have to be like that.""The child matters more than the system." "It's not that hard." Take a look at the article on fear by Chris if you want to understand more about why we keep thinking it is! Anyway, here I am and glad to be here. Ellen Becker There was a great deal I loved about school, the learning, the kids, the contact with people other than my family (I lived in a small country town with no kids my age close to where I lived). However I remember being frustrated when I really did want to know something off the beaten path and I was told "You don't have to know that. It's not on the regents (required testing in New York State)." One thing that I see coming from IKOAE is articles that deal with the excitement of learning and different ways to - 6 capture that element in the learning process.It certainly has taught me that there was so much more that I could have gained in those early years had my "schooling" been different. I am pleased to become a part of a Journal that opens the doors for its readers to all kinds of possibilities for learning and discovery in the broadest sense of the words and because of this can make a difference for our Earth today. Connie Frisbee Houde The new format will actually start with the Spring issue, but since we have a number of new subscribers whose sub- scriptions start with this issue, we wanted to introduce you to the staff. This change comes about as a result of the creationby the six of usof our new periodical, The Journal of Family Life. The widespread acceptance of this new publication has awakened me to the value of making changes which will allow XKOAE to reach a wider audience through modifying its format from that of a quasi-academic journal to a more popular one. I am hoping the proposed changes will improve reader acessibility. But whatever we do in the future, there will be six voices making these changes, not one. Hooray for the new staff! FROM THE SUN MAGAZINE: Twenty-six years of award-winning teaching have led John Gatto to some troubling conclusions about the public schools. A seventh-grade teacher, Gatto has been named New York City Teacher of the Year and New York State Teacher of the Year. Praised by leaders as diverse as Ronald Reagan and Mario Cuomo, he's a political maverick whose views defy easy categorization. Gatto is also a local legend on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where he grows garlic, plays chess, writes songsand once won a Citizen of the Week Award for coming to the aid of a woman who had been robbed A collection of his essays Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum Of Compulsory Schooling was published earlier this year by New Society Publishers.
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