Download or read book Free Schools written by Jonathan Kozol and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Free Schools Free People written by Ron Miller and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical account of the free school movement of the 1960s.
Download or read book The Free School written by W. Kenneth Richmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1973, The Free School explores the roots of the educational malaise- sociological, historical, and psychological- and looks at what could be done and what is being done to free education from its rigid and hierarchical nineteenth-century organization. By placing schooling within its larger social context, the author illuminates many reasons behind the troubled situation in our secondary schools. Our mistake has been, he thinks, to confuse education (in its truest sense) with schooling. He concludes his analysis with a valuable account of the ways in which new educational ideas are being tried out in such places as Countesthorpe, Wyndham, the Parkway Program in Philadelphia, and the Open University. This book is a must read for schoolteachers and educationists.
Download or read book Free Schools written by David Gillespie and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Sweet Poison shows us how to get the better of an education system that is costing a fortune in fees, yet failing to deliver. David Gillespie has six kids. When it came time to select high schools, he thought it worth doing some investigation to assess the level of advantage his kids would enjoy if he spent the required $1.3 million to send them all to private schools. Shockingly, the answer was: none whatsoever. Intrigued, David continued his research, only to discover he was wrong on most counts - as are most parents - when it comes to working out what factors deliver a great education. He discovered that class size doesn't matter, your kids aren't any better off in co-ed than single-sex schools (and vice versa), composite classes are fine, fancy buildings are a waste of money, the old-tie network won't cut it in the new industries and NAPLAN is misread by everyone so is largely meaningless as a measure of quality. Taking on an ingrained and historical system of vested interests - the unions, the government, our own sense of worth, privilege and entitlement - this book is controversial and absolutely necessary. It is well researched, authoritative and accessible. It is a must-read for parents, as well as teachers and policy-makers.
Download or read book Free the Children written by Allen Graubard and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1972 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Free for All written by Janet Poppendieck and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did our children end up eating nachos, pizza, and Tater Tots for lunch? Taking us on an eye-opening journey into the nation's school kitchens, this superbly researched book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. Janet Poppendieck explores the deep politics of food provision from multiple perspectives--history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more. How did we get into the absurd situation in which nutritionally regulated meals compete with fast food items and snack foods loaded with sugar, salt, and fat? What is the nutritional profile of the federal meals? How well are they reaching students who need them? Opening a window onto our culture as a whole, Poppendieck reveals the forces--the financial troubles of schools, the commercialization of childhood, the reliance on market models--that are determining how lunch is served. She concludes with a sweeping vision for change: fresh, healthy food for all children as a regular part of their school day.
Download or read book The Free School System of the United States written by Francis Adams and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Reports on the Free School System written by South Carolina. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Free School System in South Carolina written by Robert Francis Withers Allston and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living and Learning in the Free School written by Mark Novak and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1975-01-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a pioneering study of a free school in an eastern Canadian city. The author describes the attempts of a small group of people to set up a school, bound in some ways to the conventional system, yet reaching beyond it with different ideals. One great value of the study is its careful description of the day-to-day activities as order and organization emerge from amorphous beginnings and develop in spite of threats from within and without. Further, the history of this specific free school is related to broader currents of North American life and to broader issues in social action and education.
Download or read book Flood of Conflict The Story of the New Orleans Free School written by Robert M. Ferris and published by Bravura Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971, Ferris helped start The New Orleans Free School, which became a radically alternative public school promoting individual learning and grade-less classes. He concludes this volume with passionate and well-informed arguments about educational issues confounding the country, including charter schools, the achievement gap, high-stakes testing, poverty, fair and equitable spending, early childhood education, and quality education.
Download or read book Suggestions Relative to the Free School System in South Carolina written by Henry Summer and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short Account of the Present State of the Free School in Calcutta An Account of the Free School etc Report of the Free School etc written by Free School (CALCUTTA) and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Account of the Free School Society of New York written by Free-School Society of New-York and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Free School Teaching written by Kristan Accles Morrison and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free School Teaching is the personal and professional journey of one teacher within the American educational system. Faced with mounting frustrations in her own traditional, middle school classroom and having little success in resolving them, Kristan Accles Morrison decided to seek out answers, first by immersing herself in the academic literature of critical education theory and then by turning to the field. While the literature on progressive education gave her hope that things could be different and better for students locked into America's traditional education system, she wanted to find a firsthand example of how these ideas played out in practice. Morrison found a radical "free school" in Albany, New York, that embodied the ideas found in the literature, and over a period of three months she observed and documented differences between alternative and traditional schools. In trying to reconcile the gap between those systems, Morrison details the lessons she learned about teachers, students, curriculum, and the entire conception of why we educate our children.
Download or read book Free to Learn written by Peter Gray and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn. "All kids love learning. Most don't love school. That's a disconnect we've avoided discussing—until this lightning bolt of a book. If you've ever wondered why your curious kid is turning into a sullen slug at school, Peter Gray's Free to Learn has the answer. He also has the antidote." —Lenore Skenazy, author of Free-Range Kids In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today's constantly changing world, we must entrust them to steer their own learning and development. Drawing on evidence from anthropology, psychology, and history, he demonstrates that free play is the primary means by which children learn to control their lives, solve problems, get along with peers, and become emotionally resilient. A brave, counterintuitive proposal for freeing our children from the shackles of the curiosity-killing institution we call school, Free to Learn suggests that it's time to stop asking what's wrong with our children, and start asking what's wrong with the system. It shows how we can act—both as parents and as members of society—to improve children's lives and to promote their happiness and learning.
Download or read book Education Free and Compulsory written by Murray Newton Rothbard and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 1979 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
