Chris Mercogliano has been a teacher at the Albany Free School since 1973, and Codirector since 1985. His essays, commentaries and reviews have appeared in SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative Education, the Journal for Living, Friends Review, the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, the Albany Times Union, Yes! magazine, Paths of Learning, Communities magazine, The Journal for Living, and Mothering magazine, as well as in two anthologies, Deschooling Our Lives (New Society Press 1996) and Creating Learning Communities (Foundation for Educational Renewal 2000).

Chris' book about the Free School, Making It Up As We Go Along, was published in 1998 by Heinemann to excellent reviews, including selection as one of the twenty-five best education books of 1999. His second book, Rid-a-him, Or Why Are So Many Kids Labeled and Drugged in School, is under consideration by several publishers, and currently he is working on a new project, How to Grow a School.

Chris has been featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio's “Ideas,” as well as on numerous local and national call-in talk shows. He is also co-editor of the internationally distributed quarterly, The Journal for Living, serves on the advisory board of the National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools and is a deacon in the Presbyterian Church.

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