How to Grow a School: Starting and Sustaining Schools That Work by Chris Mercogliano For information on Chris and how purchase his books please click here.

 

Teaching the Restless: One School's Remarkable No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed by Chris Mercogliano "Mercogliano makes a strong case against medicating these children into submission... While [he] is describing experiences at one particular school, parents all over will find his critique of contemporary education provocative." —From Publishers Weekly For information on Chris and how purchase his books please click here.

Authored by Chris Mercogliano - Albany Free School Co-Director, Making It Up As We Go Along which has been selected as one of the 25 best education books of 1999 recounts the founding, the philosophy and the evolution of the world's longest running independent inner-city free school. For information on Chris and how purchase his books please click here.

The Journal for Living...

The Magazine for Empowering Families

...is an independent publication born within the Free School Community and supported by the 32 years of experience of its members. This publication aspires to seat people back at the controls of their own lives by providing interviews and articles on birth, childhood, parenting of all sorts, schooling and community.

 

The Free School Documentary Video Project

July 2006. The Free School Documentary is finally available for mail order. Click link above for more information.

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