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Education Revolution e Newsletter July 26, 2005
Dear Education Revolution e Newsletter Readers:
CONTENTS:
1. HURRICANE KATRINA THREATENS SCHOOLS
2. NEW FUND TO SUPPORT YOUTH AT AERO CONFERENCE
3. ONE TIME ONLY 2 DISK 17 HOUR MP3 COMPLILATION
4. DVD OF INDIA IDEC HERE SOON
HURRICANE KATRINA THREATENS SCHOOLS
As I write this I am in fear of the category 5 hurricane bearing down on New
Orleans. I'm been to New Orleans more than a dozen times. It is one of my
favorite cities. It is home of the New Orleans Free School, who's principal, Dr.
Bob Ferris, had taken many of our school groups into his house when we have been
visiting there. Some of you may have seen the great documentary video, "Why do
These Kids Love school?" made by Academy Award nominated Dorothy Fadiman. It
features New Orleans Free School, Among others. We recently received several
copies of the one hour video video. E mail us if you'd like to know more.
Also, I am concerned about the Marietta Johnson Organic School, in Fairhope,
just south of Mobile. It is the oldest continually operating alternative school
in the USA, founded in 1907. Mary Lois Adshead, a graduate and trustee of the
school, brought some rare copies of a book by Marietta Johnson to the AERO
conference. They are fascinating and quickly sold out. We just received a box of
ten more from here. You can order them from our bookstore.
In case the storm does any damage to their schools, ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO HELP
THE SCHOOLS.
The AERO bookstore is at www.edrev.org/products.html
If you want to order the Fadiman video, it is $25 (used to be $90!) but it isn't
listed in our store yet. To order it, just go to pay off your balance
www.edrev.org/payoffyoba.html and put in $25. It includes a study guide, by the
way.
2. NEW FUND TO SUPPORT YOUTH AT AERO CONFERENCE
We received a wonderful offer (below) from AERO Conference attendee Prof. Ken
Jacobson:
Greeting all from a still quite Summery Boston.
The idea of non-coercive education carries with it a strong assumption of youth
participation in the structuring of that education; youth as partners not just
recipients in this educational enterprise. I have been disappointed that more
young people have not attended the AERO conferences. On the thought that part of
that lack of participation might be financial, I suggested to Jerry and Isaac
that a Youth Scholarship Fund be established. The premise of this fund is to
provide full scholarships (Fees, Room, and Board) to as many young people as
possible.
How this fund works?:
Cost: Isaac tells me that AERO is prepared to discount full youth fees (room,
board, conference fees) for the meeting to $250.
Goal: Minimum of 50 scholarships.
Funds Needed: Minimum $12,500.
Pledging: Pledge forms are available on the conference web site.
www.educationrevolution.org/yoscfu.html
Age Limit: Scholarships would be awarded to youth who are either home schooling
or enrolled in a school up to senior year in high school.
Award Mechanism: There would be no needs test, but rather the hope is to provide
a scholarship to all youth who apply.
Voluntary Partial Payments: So as to provide as many scholarships as possible
any young person who thinks he or she might not need a full scholarship would be
asked to so note when they applied.
Application Deadline: March 1, 2006.
Application Process: Application form is available online at
www.educationrevolution.org/yoscfu.html
Accordingly, to kick this process off, I will pledge $500 towards the Youth
Scholarship Fund.
Thanks in advance for supporting this fund.
Cheers! Ken Jacobson, AERO Advisory Board Member
To pledge now, go to:
www.educationrevolution.org/yoscfu.html
3. ONE TIME ONLY 2 DISK 17 HOUR MP3 COMPLILATION
I brought a lot of materials to the IDEC in Germany. I happen to have ten 2 disk
MP3 sets left of the 17 hours of keynote addresses at the 2003 IDEC in New York.
They ordinarily sell on the website for $40. I'm going to sell just these ten
sets for $10 each. You can play them on a DVD player or computer. They include
the following:
* Bill Ayers
* Meredith Bay
* Ruben Diaz, Jr.
* Susan Ohanian
* John Taylor Gatto
* Dave Lehman
* William Cala
* Steve Orel
* Beth Goodney
* Yaacov Hecht
* Matt Hern
* Michael and Susan Klonsky
* Pat Montgomery
* Rabbi Yehudah Fine
* Ron Miller leading a Free Schoolers Symposium
* Zoe Readhead
You can order them at the site below. It will say $40 but I'll put them through
for $10 plus $3.50 postage.
http://www.edrev.org/mp3compilation.html
4. DVD OF INDIA IDEC HERE SOON
We have been able to successfully copy the overview DVD of the India IDEC from
Amukta. It has over an hour of music, excerpts from talks, etc. Just reply to
this e mail if you want us to let you know when we have made copies of it. We’ve
watched it and it is very beautiful.
We also have only two full sets of the 7 DVDs of the AERO Conference 05 left.
We've sent out hundreds of DVDs. First two orders get the ones in stock: Order
them at: http://www.educationrevolution.org/co20coset.html
SEND THIS TO SOMEONE ELSE SEND THIS TO SOMEONE ELSE
We now have over 5000 readers, all people who have contacted AERO directly! Is
there someone you know who would benefit from the information in these
dispatches? Please forward this one to them and have them visit the AERO Web
site at www.educationrevolution.org and sign up for the free e-newsletter.
Jerry Mintz
Education Revolution E-News
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