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Resources
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Essay
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Academic Failure and Democratic Schooling
Some Autobiographical Reflections1 I have zealously guarded my failing report cards from the 10th grade, which was to be my last year of secondary education…
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Acquiring Wisdom at Sudbury Valley School
Acquiring wisdom is the highest goal of education. To be wise is to have the ability to lead a good, useful, and productive life, both…
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Afterword to the New Japanese Edition of ‘Free at Last’
After one has read Free at Last, it is tempting to think that the anecdotal sketches in it are idealized, and that there can be…
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All ages welcome
As a new staff member, working at this school has been a wonderful learning experience. It has allowed me to notice certain patterns and common…
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An Education Worth Struggling For
A recently empty-nested father looks back on the frustrations, foibles, and unexpected outcomes of far-reaching educational decisions made by a young family in its formative…
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And They Say Students Don’t Learn Division at SVS…
I love chocolate and eat a piece after lunch and dinner. Pretty much religiously. In the beginning of the year, I used to pack a…
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Are 1000 Pictures Worth One Word?
Reprinted from The Sudbury Valley School NEWSLETTER; vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 3-6 I On at least four occasions during the past eight years, people…
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Are They Getting Their Work Done?
It’s another snow day. I’m shoveling our sidewalk, while my husband is working on a talk about visual presentations of work, and I’m thinking about…
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Assuming Excellence: The Key to the Sudbury Valley Experience
Prologue Ever since the school was first conceived, we have been searching for a way to express in clear and concise form its essential philosophy…
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Banishing Fear
Some unrelated problems that are linked after all. I don’t know why this came together for me just now, but it did. Everything simply fell…
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Banishing Fear: A New Look, Two Decades Later
In 1992, I wrote an essay under the title “Banishing Fear”. Since I wrote that, there has been a tragic resurgence of fear permeating western…
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Being Average is Not Normal
Cori, my oldest daughter and Kali, one of her close friends at SVS, are having a good-humored debate about which one of them reads…
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But I Digress . . .
The Hidden Power of Conversation I We have always stressed the central role conversation plays in the way people learn – and, in particular, in…
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Celebrate the Diversity of Children
Note: This article appeared in the November 25, 2005 issue of the Metrowest Daily News. One of the many things we as Americans can be…
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Children’s Choices
The uniqueness of Sudbury schools is the value we place on choice rather than control. That is the new paradigm! Most adults associated with the…
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