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General
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An Evening With Three Alumni
Former students reminisce about their lives at Sudbury Valley School, and what they have been doing since they left. One is a former rock star…
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Do People Learn From Courses?
The role of courses in learning has been on my mind a lot recently, largely due to conversations with various present and former School Meeting…
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Norman Bauer, of SUNY Geneseo, Interviewing Daniel Greenberg, May 1988
In May of 1988, Norman Bauer, a Professor at SUNY Geneseo, asked for and got permission to come to Sudbury Valley School, to interview Daniel…
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The Tyranny of Common Sense: a defense of the rule of law and democracy
Some people, who have only a passing knowledge about Sudbury Valley, are troubled and offended by the fact that our school relies on the rule…
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How Schools Deal with Failure: POORLY!! — Give Them an “F”!
If I had to choose one topic to place at the very core of every child’s educational experience, I would have no trouble identifying it:…
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Do Computers Really Isolate the Modern Child?
One of the prevalent myths about the evil wrought upon today’s young generation by “screen time” is that computers discourage their users from social interactions….
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There’s More’n One Way to Skin a Cat
We have a lot to muse about as we struggle to make ourselves comfortable in a world that seems to be mainly for people whose…
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Do Over In-Situ
Would you actually turn back the hands of time and be a kid again if you had the ‘sus’ power to shape shift or time…
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Self-Directed Learning
The phrase “self-directed learning” is used in education circles all over the Internet, and it is often applied to Sudbury Valley. But the term is…
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The “Invisible Hand” of Trust: What Sudbury Valley School Is Really About
From the beginning, the word “trust” could be found in our literature here and there, pretty much casually—not with any great emphasis on it, certainly…
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Should Everyone Learn at the Same Pace?
This question has clearly been answered by our society with a resounding “YES”. It is an accepted notion that all children should learn at the…
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They Sit in Court
Whenever we have an Open House at Sudbury Valley School we often get the same question, “What do the kids do all day?” Underneath this…
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Sudbury Valley School: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
The Sudbury Valley School model is an idea whose time has come. And in a relatively short time, historically speaking . . . in a mere half century, it has made a dent in the protective walls that traditional education has built to protect its bloated empire.
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A Sudbury Valley Education: The View from Inside
In the long view of things, the concept of the school isn’t that odd. In the history of human culture, public education as we know…
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Kingdom of Childhood, Chapter 5
From Interviews by Hanna Greenberg edited by Mimsy Sadofsky and Daniel Greenberg (207) “Mobility was a big part of what was different about the school…
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“It’s a Great School, But Not for MY Kid!” “Really?”
As they decide whether or not to send their children here, or as they fret about their children while they are enrolled here, there are…
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