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globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: ‘Academic bulimia’ and the test game 1 week, 1 day ago · View
by Richard D. Erlich I became aware of the problem early in my teaching career, in 1967 or so. We were doing a standard-definition exercise in a composition class, and a student was reading aloud her brief definition piece that began, “In the United States treason is” — and then merrily gave her own definition. “Whoa!” [...] -
globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: Playing to Learn 2 weeks, 2 days ago · View
THE Obama administration is planning some big changes to how we measure the success or failure of schools and how we apportion federal money based on those assessments. It’s great that the administration is trying to undertake reforms, but if we want to make sure all children learn, we will need to overhaul the curriculum [...]
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globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: New Research Supports John Holt’s Views About Learning 2 weeks, 5 days ago · View
One of the core ideas of John Holt’s approach to education is that children are good at learning. John asserted in the early sixties, often and clearly, that children are natural learners and that adult interference in their attempts to learn, often through uninvited teaching, inhibits children’s learning. This idea continues to be met with skepticism [...] -
globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: How can secular families provide their children with an education aligned with their values? 3 weeks, 5 days ago · View
Homeschooling is traditionally seen as something that conservative – mostly Christian – families do. Global Village School is a secular homeschooling program. We understand that secular families are interested in teaching their children lessons about ethics and responsibility without basing it all on religious doctrine. Global Village will be the official “school of record,” maintaining student [...]
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globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: What can Global Village School offer Unitarian Universalist Homeschool Families?
How can Unitarian Universalist (UU) families provide their children with an education aligned with UU values? Global Village School can help.
Founded in 1999, the creation of Global Village School was fueled by deep concerns about violence, discrimination, and the state of the planet, along with a compelling vision of a better [...]1 month ago · View
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globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: Looking back on the last decade of Global Village School 1 month, 1 week ago · View
As we move into our 11th year of existence we’ve been looking back on earlier times. Here’s a glimpse of 2002, just a few years after Sally embarked on the progressive homeschooling adventure that is Global Village School: The drive to Sally Carless’ house is indicative of her nature. The road is a small, private road [...] -
globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: K8 homeschool curriculum guide samples
More about our Whole Child, Healthy Planet Curriculum Guides!
Each grade level contains core resources plus many extras – most likely much more than you will be able to get through in a year. Each curriculum guide includes:
1) A detailed list of books [...]1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
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globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: Educating for a better world presentation at the AERO conference
AERO has recently posted video of the 2008 Educating for a Better World workshop with Sally Carless (Founding Director of GVS), Ron Miller (editor of AERO’s Education Revolution Magazine), and Khalif Williams (Executive Director of the Institute for Humane Education). Questions they covered include:
What responsibility do alternative educators have to address the challenges facing our [...]2 months ago · View
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globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: Recipe for a Prejudice-Free Society
The following recipe was written by Global Village High School student Kamron Yazdani in response to a Literature of Diversity assignment after reading The Secret Life of Bees.
Recipe for a Prejudice-Free Society
By Kamron Yazdani“Peace-o-Pie”
10 lbs. [...]
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globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: Homeschooling: Alternatives in Education as a Key to Progressive Social Change
Sally recently sat down to chat with the folks over at the HUB eAcademy about progressive education as part of a tele-seminar series exploring sustainability themes. Please go to this page: http://www.hubhub.org/hubeacademy/index.php?id=1748
and scroll all the way to the bottom to hear the interview.2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: Remember to use GoodShop this holiday season!
Downloading the GoodShop toolbar is a quick and easy way to support Global Village while you shop online. Once installed, every time you shop at one of more than 1,300 participating stores, a percentage of your purchase will automatically go to Global Village (at no extra cost to you!)
Just go here and download the toolbar: [...]3 months ago · View
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globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: K-8 Curriculum: Whole Child, Healthy Planet
The Global Village curriculum guides contain a multitude of resources, instructions on how to use them for a full year’s curriculum, and articles guiding parents through the Whole Child, Healthy Planet homeschooling process. Each grade level contains core resources plus many extras – most likely much more than you will be able to [...]
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globalvillageschool wrote a new blog post: One-Third of U.S. Colleges/Universities Say ACT/SAT is Optional
The number of test-optional institutions in the U.S. has soared past the 830 mark, as five more schools – Agnes Scott, Assumption, Sacred Heart, SUNY Pottsdam, and Washington & Jefferson – have announced they are dropping ACT/SAT requirements. About one-third of all accredited colleges and universities in the country now do not require all or [...]
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