Self-directed learning and unschooling

The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn
An excellent book that most adults do not want you to see- it’s the young person’s "bible" for directing your own education or career

Life Learning (magazine)
"http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com"
An infectious, addictive magazine devoted to self-directed learning. Order the magazine through the link provided.

DeSchooling Our Lives by Matt Hern
Excellent collection of essays from various voices and viewpoints in the world of self-directed learning, from unschooling to democratic schooling.

Summerhill School by A. S. Neill
A classic book about one of the first democratic schools. Discusses first hand how democracy can work in a school setting when children are not subordinated to adults, and when children have equal say and responsibility for decisions made about school rules, conduct expectations, curriculum and which teachers are worth keeping, and which will be asked to leave.

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
This is a revolutionary manifesto for child-directed, home-based learning. John Taylor Gatto tells it like it is for the millions of apathetic children trapped in the decaying, outmoded institution known as traditional schooling. John Taylor Gatto candy-coats nothing as he challenges the system and demands that today’s approach to education be revolutionized to reflect modern society, and the neglected educational needs of children. Before you become convinced that you "hate learning", read this book!

The Exhausted School by John Taylor Gatto
Another sobering, scathing criticism of traditional schooling by John Taylor Gatto.

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Democratic Schools

Respect: What Children Get in Democratic Schools by Daniel Greenberg (Article)
http://www.educationfutures.org/Respect.htm

The Sudbury Valley School (Massachusetts)
http://www.sudval.org
(508)877-3030

The Albany Free School (NewYork)
http://www.albanyfreeschool.com/
(518) 434-3072

Blue Mountain School (Oregon)
http://www.bluemountain-school.org/
541-942-7764

Liberty School (Maine)
http://www.liberty-school.org/
207-374-2886

Links to other democratic schools in the USA, Canada and World-wide:

http://www.educationrevolution.org/lisofdemscho.html

http://www.sudval.org/other.html

http://www.bluemountain-school.org/otherschools.html

Other kid-centered schools:

Sparhawk School (Massachusetts)
http://www.sparhawk.com

Hawthorne Valley School (New York)
http://www.hawthornevalleyschool.org/
Waldorf-based education

Chicago Waldorf School (Illinois)
http://www.chicagowaldorf.org/

Montessori Schools in the USA
http://privateschool.about.com/blmsub6_montessori_index.htm

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Emancipation

http://home.netcom.com/~moto2/empwring.html

Hear My Voice
http://www.hearmyvoice.org/

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Business

http://www.yerc.ca/makeitwork.html

http://www.employmentnavigators.com/b_assist/YouthsInfo.HTM

http://www.shell-livewire.org/

http://eweb.slu.edu/youth_entrepreneurship.htm

http://www.youngbiz.com//a>

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Puberty

http://www.factsoflife.org.uk/

http://www.allaboutsex.org/AAS_Master_Frameset.cfm

http://teensexuality.studentcenter.org/

http://www.youthshakers.org/sexualhealth/youngmen/index.htm (boys)

http://www.youthshakers.org/sexualhealth/youngwomen/index.htm (girls)

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