First days of Shaker Mountain School / Jerry Mintz -- Subleties of a democratic school -- Sudbury Valley School / Dan Greenberg -- Metropolitan School of Columbus: a twenty year perspective on alternative schools, from one person's experience / Lucia Vorys -- The history of the free school / Mary Leue -- L'Ecole d'Humanite; learning without fear / Ernst Scagnet -- Central Park East: an alternative story / Deborah Meier -- "To live (and thus to learn) these truths": teaching the American constitution / Dave Lehman -- Learning, relationship and 'burnout, ' / Rosalie Angela Bianchi.
Alternative schools in early America / Ron Miller -- Alternative and conventional education from the viewpoint of a user / Sam McPheeters -- Coalition as community / Chris Mercogliano -- Homeschooling and John Holt's vision / Pat Farenga -- Robots building robots? / Mary Leue -- Children's theater / Chris Mercogliano -- Refuting Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences / Dave Lehman -- Educating for peace / Phil Gang -- Why schools don't educate / John Gatto -- The energetic starvation of children / Alan J. Schwartz.
A humanitarian is always a hypocrite / Terry Doran -- Children at risk / Jonathan Kozol -- The pulse of learning / Robert Lewis -- The art of doing nothing / Hanna Greenberg -- An education money can't buy / Gene Lehman -- Movement in education / Davids McNamee -- Grandmother / Jenifer Miller -- Mandi bus station / Mary Leue -- Where do I begin / Meighan Carivan -- Haikus: Fanon Frazier, David Daniels, Libby Carivan -- Jean Piaget, B.F. Skinner and John Dewey, a study of learning, teaching and schooling / Rosalie Angela Bianchi -- A comparison of schooling and home schooling / Brian Ray.