Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)
 
schools
    * Sudbury Valley School (Framingham, MA)
    * Summerhill School (Leiston, United Kingdom)
    * The Family School at Larkhill (London, United Kingdom)
    * The Brooklyn Free School (Brooklyn, NY)
    * The Manhattan Free School (Manhattan, NY)
    * Play Mountain Place (Los Angeles, CA)
    * Teddy McArdle Free School (Little Falls, NJ)
    * Alpine Valley School (Wheat Ridge, CO)
    * The Circle School (Harrisburg, PA)
    * The Clearwater School (Seattle, WA)
    * The Trillium School (Indianola, WA)
    * The Free School (Albany, NY)
    * Harriet Tubman Free School (Albany, NY)
    * Sands School (Devon, United Kingdom)
    * Hudson Valley Sudbury School (West Hurley, NY)
    * Indigo Sudbury Campus (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
    * Longview School (Cortlandt Manor, NY)
    * Mountain Laurel Sudbury School (New Britain, CT)
    * The New School (Newark, DE)
    * Sacramento Valley School (Sacramento, CA)
    * The Sego Lily School (Salt Lake City, UT)
    * Spring Valley School (Palm Harbor, FL)
    * Village Free School (Portland, OR)
    * Windsor House School (North Vancouver, BC, Canada)
    * Second Foundation School (Minneapolis, MN)
    * Shenandoah Valley Community School (Harrisonburg, VA)
 
 
books
 
A Free Range Childhood: Self Regulation at Summerhill School
by Matthew Appleton
 
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
by A.S. Neill
 
Freedom: Not License!
by A.S. Neill
 
Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood
By A.S. Neill, Edited by Albert Lamb
 
How Children Learn
by John Holt
 
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling
by John Holt & Patrick Farenga

Learning All the Time
by John Holt

Escape From Childhood
by John Holt

Raising Our Children, Raising ourselves
by Naomi Aldort
 
Free at Last: The Sudbury Valley School
by Daniel Greenberg
 
The Pursuit of Happiness: The Lives of Sudbury Valley Alumni
by Daniel Greenberg, Mimsy Sadofsky, and Jason Lempka
 
The Sudbury Valley School Experience
by Daniel Greenberg, Hanna Greenberg, Michael Greenberg, Laura Ransom, Mimsy Sadofsky, and Alan White
 
Trusting Children: A look at Sudbury education around the world
Published by Sego Lily School
 
Creating Learning Communities
edited by Ron Miller

No Homework and Recess All Day: How to Have Freedom and Democracy in Education
by Jerry Mintz

Unconditional Parenting
by Alfie Kohn

Punished by Rewards:The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
by Alfie Kohn

Education, Inc.: Turning Learning into a Business
edited by Alfie Kohn and Patrick Shannon

The Teenage Liberation Handbook
by Grace Llewelyn

Last Child in the Woods
by Richard Louv

Watch Yourself: Why Safer Isn't Always Better
by Matt Hern

Teaching as a Subversive Activity
by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner

The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
by Neil Postman

Kids Working It Out: Stories and Strategies for Making Peace in Our Schools
edited by Tricia S. Jones and Randy Compton

The Compassionate Classroom: Relationship Based Teaching and Learning
by Sura Hart and Victoria Kindle Hodson

The Exhausted School
edited by John Taylor Gatto

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto

Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect our Children's Minds--and What We Can Do About It
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.

Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think--and What We Can Do About It
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.

Free School Teaching: A Journey into Radical Progressive Education
by Kristan Accles Morrison
 
The Happy Child: Changing the Heart of Education
by Steven Harrison
 
Making It Up As We Go Along: The Story of the Albany Free School
by Chris Mercogliano

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