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Resources for Self-Educators
This Way Out: how to get out of school and on with your life is a zine written by SEF board members Emily Nepon and Sara Zia Ebrahimi in 1999. The zine is still relevant today, featuring interviews with successful self-educators who don't fit the traditional homeschooling model and answers to some common concerns about quitting school (this section can be found online.).
This Way Out is now being distributed by the fabulous Jessica Champion of Arcade Distro, who only seeks a couple of stamps as payment and will send free to prisoners.
Applied Research Center
Advancing racial justice through research, advocacy and journalism.
Alternative Education Resource Organization
The Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 to advance learner-centered approaches to education. AERO is considered by many to be the primary hub of communications for educational alternatives around the world. The site includes job and internship postings, message boards, searchable databases, links to many other important sites. This site is an amazing resource.
Autodidactic Press
Autodidactic Press is the publisher of books including "Self-University: The Price of Tuition is the Desire to Learn. Your Degree is a Better life." This site is packed with everything from info about Self University Week celebrations to a bookstore of relevant reading, a "books that change lives" list, distance learning and online training links, and a self-educator profiles section. You can also sign up for their life long learners newsletter.
Creating Learning Communities
Envisioning a world without schools. Creating a world of learning communities. Website for "A Coalition for Self-Learning," publishers of the resource book Creating Learning Communities. The Coalition for Self-Learning is a collective of autonomous individuals and groups each working independently but in mutual aid to help one another promote ideas and actions for creating learning communities and their relevance to social change. It's goals and purposes are to envision a world without schools -- a world of cooperative community life-long learning centers as a significant element in the emerging cooperative commonwealth where individuals are honored and celebrated and where they find a safe place to be, to belong, to learn, and to go on developing in a meaningful way -- for them, and for their whole family, community & society. Site includes an annotated and searchable list of learning centers, regional and national organizations, consultants and publications.
Paths of Learning
This site offers a popular magazine (which took over from SKOLE magazine), a free online resource center to support the growth of including articles, action guides, newsgroups and more, and new books that will invigorate your imagination for what is possible in education and how you can get involved.
Rethinking Schools
Founded in 1986 by activist teachers, Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit, independent publisher of educational materials. Their mission: "We advocate the reform of elementary and secondary education, with a strong emphasis on issues of equity and social justice."
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