Education, education, education

The following post appeared on slashdot a few day ago:

Someday, public schools may be much more like public libraries open to anyone to use than day prisons for children of working parents, but until then, consider:

"Links about alternative peer-oriented education"
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Education [p2pfoundation.net]

"The Underground History of American Education" by 1991 NYS Teacher of
the Year John Taylor Gatto
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm [johntaylorgatto.com]

"The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher" also by John Taylor Gatto
http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt [newciv.org]

"State Controlled Consciousness" also by John Taylor Gatto
http://www.the-open-boat.com/Gatto.html [the-open-boat.com]

"The Big Crunch" by David Goodstein, Vice Provost, Caltech
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html [caltech.edu]

"Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmidt
http://www.disciplined-minds.com/ [disciplined-minds.com]

"What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream" by Noam Chomsky
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm [chomsky.info]

"University Secrets:Your Guide to Surviving a College Education" by Robert D. Honigman
http://web.archive.org/web/20060707100524/www.universitysecrets.com/us.htm [archive.org]

"In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness " by Chris
Mercogliano, who spent thirty-five years teaching at the Albany Free School
http://www.chrismercogliano.com/childhood.htm [chrismercogliano.com]

"Teach Your Own" by John Holt (and other books)
http://www.holtgws.com/ [holtgws.com]

"The Teenage Liberation Handbook" by Grace Llewellyn (and other books)
http://gracellewellyn.com/ [gracellewellyn.com]

"The Emergence of Compulsory Schooling and ... Resistance" By Matt Hern
http://web.archive.org/web/20071014123355/http://www.social-ecology.org/article.php?story=20031028151034651 [archive.org]

"Sustainable Education" by Jerry Mintz
http://www.greenmoneyjournal.com/article.mpl?articleid=195&newsletterid=1 [greenmoneyjournal.com]

"Federated Learning Communities"
http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-1/learning.html [ericdigests.org]
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ilc/models.html [maricopa.edu]

"The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them: An Introduction to
Life/Work Planning" by Richard N. Bolles (also writes "What Color is Your
Parachute")
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Boxes-Life-How-Them/dp/0913668583 [amazon.com]

General related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People's_History_of_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/indextrue.html [historyisaweapon.com]

Mine:

"Post-Scarcity Princeton, or, Reading between the lines of PAW for
prospective Princeton students, or, the Health Risks of Heart Disease "
http://www.pdfernhout.net/reading-between-the-lines.html [pdfernhout.net]

"Towards a Post-Scarcity New York State of Mind (through homeschooling)"
http://www.pdfernhout.net/towards-a-post-scarcity-new-york-state-of-mind.html [pdfernhout.net]