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Society portal. v. t. e. The free school movement, also known as the new schools or alternative schools movement, was an American education reform movement during the 1960s and early 1970s that sought to change the aims of formal schooling through alternative, independent community schools.
Free the Children. Free the Children: Radical Reform and the Free School Movement is the first book-length account of the free school movement written by Allen Graubard and published by Pantheon Books in 1972.
Society portal. v. t. e. John Caldwell Holt (April 14, 1923 – September 14, 1985) was an American author and educator, a proponent of homeschooling (specifically the unschooling approach), and a pioneer in youth rights theory. After a six-year stint teaching elementary school in the 1950s, Holt wrote the book How Children Fail (1964), which ...
William Lowndes Yancey (August 10, 1814 – July 27, 1863) was an American politician in the Antebellum South. As an influential "Fire-Eater", he defended slavery and urged Southerners to secede from the Union in response to Northern antislavery agitation. Though a critic of John C. Calhoun at the time of the Nullification Crisis of 1832–33 ...
A widespread movement of free schools developed in the 1960s, inspired by A. S. Neill’s publications on his Summerhill School, George Dennison’s publications on the progressive First Street School, and the general progressive climate of the 1970s. This movement was largely renounced by the conservative period of the 1980s. [31]
Herbert R. Kohl. Herbert Ralph Kohl (born August 22, 1937) [1] is an American educator best known for his advocacy of progressive alternative education [2] and as the author of more than thirty books on education. [3] He founded the 1960s Open School movement [4] and is credited with coining the term "open classroom".
Free school movement, an American education reform movement during the 1960s and 1970s that sought to change the aims of formal schooling through alternative, independent community schools. Free skool or free school, an autonomous, nonhierarchical space intended for educational exchange and skillsharing, especially among anarchists.
Freedom Schools were temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South. They were originally part of a nationwide effort during the Civil Rights Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social, political and economic equality in the United States. The most prominent example of Freedom Schools was in ...