Unschool Radical

The Alternative Education Resource Organization Presents the 3rd Annual AERO Conference

Come join teachers, students, families and many others involved in educational alternatives for an inspiring, thought-provoking 4-day event!

Our keynote speakers include John Taylor Gatto, Mimsy Sadofsky, Ron Miller, Susan Ohanian, Pat Farenga, Jerry Mintz, and Tim Seldin.

Highlights include keynote panel discussions, new school starters workshop series, communities workshop series, student film festival & speakers, documentaries & films, FREE child care throughout, huge bookstore, musical performances, talent show, open workshop space, and plenty of workshops & events for all!

Sponsored by The Montessori Foundation, the International Montessori Council, Association of Waldorf Schools of North America, Center for Liberty & Community, School of Living, Institute for Democratic Education, Students Against Testing, International Association for Learning Alternatives, & Life Learning Magazine.

-Isaac Graves
Conference Director
Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)
417 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577-2620
(800) 769-4171 (toll-free) or 516-621-2195
www.EducationRevolution.org
isaacgraves@gmail.com

3rd Annual AERO Conference
June 29th - July 2nd, 2006
Russell Sage College, Troy, NY
www.EducationRevolution.org/conference.html

Website: www.EducationRevolution.org
Detailed Info Packet: www.EducationRevolution.org/packet.html

Conference Theme: “Educational Alternatives: Finding Our Commonalities & Celebrating Our Differences”

“Allow children to be happy their own way, for what better way will they ever find?”
Samuel Johnson

What people say about Aerp Conference:
“I saw John Taylor Gatto (author of “Dumbing us Down”) there a couple of years ago and that is what inspired me to homeschool.” - SE, New York

“I learned a lot about Education but much more about myself. Thanks :)” - OR, Pennsylvania

“The open workshops allowed for the kind of spontaneous discussions that felt important and authentic.” - GM, Montana

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I am posting this because this is the way people define homeschooling as being successful or not- do this get into college. Somehow a homeschooler is successful if they go to college or university. My husband’s sisters were homeschooled and the first question people ask me ( including other homeschoolers and unschoolers) is- what do they do for a living? Second most popular question is- are they successful. What does this mean? I know what they are asking- but the whole point of unschooling is to challenge the idea of success.

CNN Article
College after homeschooling: The right decision?

CNN’s Pat Etheridge looks into how well home-schooled students fare in college

October 3, 2000
Web posted at: 11:52 a.m. EDT (1552 GMT)

(CNN) — Homeschooling isn’t for everyone, but it seems to have worked for Matt Martin and Sasha Wexler.

Martin attends Piedmont College, a small, liberal arts school in Georgia that actively recruits homeschoolers and currently has 12 of them on campus. Homeschooling “made me very motivated, very self-reliant,” says Martin, a sophomore on full scholarship.

For Wexler, 18, the “home” in homeschooling is wherever she and her laptop computer happen to be. The Washington student is working toward an online high school degree while also pursuing an acting career that occasionally takes her on the road.

Being able to do both makes her better at both, Wexler told CNN. “When I’m doing theater I am happier and I’ll do better school work as well.”

By some accounts, Martin and Wexler missed out on the social life that comes with a traditional high school education. But, to hear them tell it, homeschooling was still the right decision.

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From The Toronto Star, April 27: Tales out of school

Who started it?

The age-old question

“He started it!”

But did he? A new study shows teachers often struggle to recognize when bullying is taking place among their students, especially if it’s the psychological kind, rather than the physical bullying for which teachers often get less training.

In a University of Toronto study of 157 Grade 4 and 5 students in Toronto, researchers interviewed 18 students who had been bullied — but their teachers were aware of only 10 of the victims, and they tended to be children who had been bullied physically, rather than through other methods such as text messaging.

The study, led by U of T social work professor Faye Mishna, found teachers sometimes don’t recognize bullying if it takes place between friends, and that students often don’t report bullying to teachers early enough to allow for intervention.

“Most teachers would like more training to provide them with better intervention strategies,” said Mishna. “To understand bullying, we need to examine not only the behaviours of children who bully and the children they victimize, but also teachers who may be present when bullying happens.”

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