resources

We celebrate a rich legacy of pioneers who have come before us, inspiring and challenging us to reach beyond our notions of what is possible. Here are some of them.

Organizations

Shikshantar: The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development. (Rajasthan, India)

Alternative Education Resource Organization (Roslyn Heights, NY)

The Institute for Democratic Education (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC)

Authors

John Taylor Gatto, author of Dumbing Us Down and The Underground History of American Education

John Holt, author of The Underachieving School

Grace Llewellyn, author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook. This site is a blog run by some teenage unschoolers that go to a summer camp run by Llewellyn.

Daniel Greenberg, founder of the Sudbury Valley School and author of many books including, Free at Last. Find his books and more Sudbury publications at http://www.sudval.org

Other Schools

The Sudbury Valley School, the cutting edge school for independent children. This school embodies a great deal of the philosophical issues at the core of self-directed learning. The Sudbury model has been replicated over 30 times in this country and abroad.

North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens. North Star is a leader in community based, self-initiated learning. This is a learning center in Massachusettes that is very similar to Roots, however, Roots hopes to include all ages in time.

The Brooklyn Free School is a true democratic school for all ages. BFS promotes non-coercive education in New York City and beyond. Their links page offers a great connection to other free schools.

Biofuels

This is the official site of the former owner's of our Veg-e-Bus.

This site offers general information of the types of biofuels as well as how to convert and use your own.

This is an organization campaigning to convert more school buses to run on vegetable oil.

http://www.biodieselamerica.org

http://www.mosoy.org/db/sort_city.asp