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The free school movement, also known as the new schools or alternative schools movement, was an American education reform movement during the 1960s and early 1970s that sought to change the aims of formal schooling through alternative, independent community schools.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 41 relations: A. S. Neill, Associated Press, Brown University, CBS News, Counterculture of the 1960s, Diane Ravitch, E. D. Hirsch, Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Education reform, Education Resources Information Center, Ferrer Center and Colony, Free the Children (book), Freedom Schools, George Dennison, Greenwood Publishing Group, Harvard Educational Review, Herbert R. Kohl, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, HuffPost, James Herndon (writer), Jonathan Kozol, Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, Open education, Palgrave Macmillan, Pantheon Books, Participatory democracy, Paul Goodman, Peter Lang (publisher), Presidency of Richard Nixon, Private school, Progressive education, Progressive Era, ProQuest, Social movement, Student-centered learning, Summerhill (book), Summerhill School, SUNY Press, The Lives of Children, The New York Times, Westport, Connecticut.

  2. Democratic free schools

A. S. Neill

Alexander Sutherland Neill (17 October 1883 – 23 September 1973) was a Scottish educator and author known for his school, Summerhill, and its philosophy of freedom from adult coercion and community self-governance.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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Counterculture of the 1960s

The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century.

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Diane Ravitch

Diane Silvers Ravitch (born July 1, 1938) is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

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E. D. Hirsch

Eric "E. D." Donald Hirsch Jr. (born March 22 1928) is an American educator, literary critic, and theorist of education.

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Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Edgar Zodaig Friedenberg (March 18, 1921 – June 1, 2000) was an American scholar of education and gender studies best known for The Vanishing Adolescent (1959) and Coming of Age in America (1965).

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Education reform

Education reform is the name given to the goal of changing public education.

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Education Resources Information Center

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information.

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Ferrer Center and Colony

The Ferrer Center and Stelton Colony were an anarchist social center and colony, respectively, organized to honor the memory of anarchist pedagogue Francisco Ferrer and to build a school based on his model, Escuela Moderna, in the United States.

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Free the Children (book)

Free the Children: Radical Reform and the Free School Movement is the first book-length account of the free school movement written by Allen Graubard and published by Pantheon Books in 1972. Free school movement and free the Children (book) are Democratic free schools.

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Freedom Schools

Freedom Schools were temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South.

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George Dennison

George Dennison (1925–1987) was an American novelist and short-story author best known for The Lives of Children, his account of the First Street School.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Harvard Educational Review

The Harvard Educational Review is an academic journal of opinion and research dealing with education, associated with the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and published by the Harvard Education Publishing Group.

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Herbert R. Kohl

Herbert Ralph Kohl (born August 22, 1937) is an American educator best known for his advocacy of progressive alternative education and as the author of more than thirty books on education.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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James Herndon (writer)

James Herndon (1926–1990) was an American writer and educator.

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Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol (born September 5, 1936) is an American writer, progressive activist, and educator, best known for his books on public education in the United States.

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Oklahoma State University–Stillwater

Oklahoma State University–Stillwater (officially Oklahoma State University; informally OSU, OK State, Oklahoma State) is a public land-grant research university in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

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Open education

Open education is an educational movement founded on openness, with connections to other educational movements such as critical pedagogy, and with an educational stance which favours widening participation and inclusiveness in society.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.

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Pantheon Books

Pantheon Books is an American book publishing imprint.

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Participatory democracy

Participatory democracy, participant democracy, participative democracy, or semi-direct democracy is a form of government in which citizens participate individually and directly in political decisions and policies that affect their lives, rather than through elected representatives.

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Paul Goodman

Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 – August 2, 1972) was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism.

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Peter Lang (publisher)

Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences.

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Presidency of Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon's tenure as the 37th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1969, and ended when he resigned on August 9, 1974, in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office, the only U.S. president ever to do so.

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Private school

A private school is a school not administered or funded by the government, unlike a public school.

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Progressive education

Progressive education, or educational progressivism, is a pedagogical movement that began in the late 19th century and has persisted in various forms to the present. Free school movement and progressive education are alternative education.

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Progressive Era

The Progressive Era (1901–1929) was a period in the United States during the early 20th century of widespread social activism and political reform across the country.

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ProQuest

ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene Power.

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A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one.

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Student-centered learning

Student-centered learning, also known as learner-centered education, broadly encompasses methods of teaching that shift the focus of instruction from the teacher to the student. Free school movement and student-centered learning are education reform.

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Summerhill (book)

Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing is a book about the English boarding school Summerhill School by its headmaster A. S. Neill.

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Summerhill School

Summerhill School is an independent (i.e. fee-charging) day and boarding school in Leiston, Suffolk, England. Free school movement and Summerhill School are Democratic free schools.

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SUNY Press

The State University of New York Press (more commonly referred to as the SUNY Press) is a university press affiliated with the State University of New York system.

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The Lives of Children

The Lives of Children is a book by George Dennison about the First Street School, a small, alternative mini-school on the Lower East Side of New York City.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Westport, Connecticut

Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, along the Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast.

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See also

Democratic free schools

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_school_movement

Also known as Free schools movement.