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A dialogue from freshman year, for freshmen at heart
An even older submission for a contest that never announced a winner
Another dialogue, for philosophy class senior year
The neighborhood portfolio, the kitchen sink

A screenplay for Jess, who still owes CT an essay
A curriculum from Tenacity 
And another, with observations, from Alexandria Academy
A reflection on Fulbright Uruguay 

For the Graduate Institute at St. John's College, Annapolis
An essay on Rousseau's Emile

On writing on the ground
A video on Plato's Meno

 About learning from EarthBound
An open letter to the kid who made Undertale
More EarthBound commentary, serialized from the podcast

Pullman's Revaluation of Consciousness, a draft for a scholarly essay
An imaginary video game project on Philip Pullman's HDM

Notes for The Community School: The Book, or Building The Beloved Community School 

but this list begins to be shading into less finished things again...
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Recommended reading

  • Meno and Republic, by Plato
  • Nichomachean Ethics, by Aristotle
  • Confessions, by Augustine
  • Essays, by Montaigne
  • Emile, by Rousseau
  • Begin Here, by Jacques Barzun
  • Talks to Teachers and to Students, by William James
  • Yasnaya Polyana, by Tolstoy
  • Experience and Education, by John Dewey
  • Young, Gifted and Black, by Theresa Perry et al
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with Alex Haley
  • Fist Stick Knife Gun, by Geoffrey Canada
  • The Freedom Writers Diary, with Erin Gruwell
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
  • Miss Goddard's Grave, by Philip Pullman
  • The Education of Henry Adams
  • Teacher Man, by Frank McCourt
  • Up the Down Staircase, by Bel Kaufman
  • The ABCs of Enlightenment, by Robert Day
  • Shantiniketan: The School of Tagore, by WW Pearson
  • El Coro de Babel: La Residencia de Estudiantes, by Alvaro Ribagorda

Links cool and rabbit hole-some

  • 826
  • Albert Einstein Institution
  • Alexander Schmid
  • American Field Service
  • Amy Troolin
  • Ben Kozlowski
  • BibleProject
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  • Brenton Dickieson
  • Brian Brock
  • Change IT
  • Children's Defense Fund
  • City Year
  • College Unbound
  • Dream Share
  • Education for liberation network
  • Encyclopedia of informal education
  • Francis Su
  • Great Hearts Academies
  • Hack Education
  • Harlem Children's Zone
  • Heterodox Academy
  • Internet Archive
  • Jordan Peterson
  • Key School
  • Khan Academy
  • La Residencia de Estudiantes of Madrid
  • Louis D Brown Peace Inst
  • Maggie Parke
  • Michael Clay Thompson
  • Minerva Project
  • My Generation of Polyglots
  • Mythgard Inst
  • Nanowrimo
  • Once upon a school
  • Open Culture
  • Open House
  • Outschool
  • Partially Examined Life
  • PBS
  • Philip Pullman
  • Project SEED
  • Roam Schooled
  • Santiniketan of Tagore
  • Signum University
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