Summerhill School - Wikipédia (PT)
Origem: Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre. Escola Summerhill, Inglaterra. Summerhill é uma escola que se localiza em Leiston, no condado de Suffolk, na Inglaterra. Fundada em 1921 pelo educador Alexander Sutherland Neill, é uma das pioneiras dentro do movimento das chamadas "escolas democráticas". Esta tornou-se ícone das pedagogias alternativas ao concretizar um sistema educativo em que o importante é a criança ter liberdade para escolher e decidir o que aprender e, com base nisso, desenvolver-se no próprio ritmo1 . Hoje mais de 200 escolas espalhadas pelo mundo seguem os seus ensinamentos (50 só nos Estados Unidos2 ) e estão a crescer todos os dias. Atualmente atende a crianças dos ensino fundamental e médio (secundário) e é dirigida pela filha do fundador, Zoe Neill Readhead. Uma escola para o aluno[editar | editar código-fonte] De acordo com Neill, a educação deveria trabalhar basicamente com a dimensão emocional do aluno, para que a sensibilidade ultrapassasse sempre a racionalidade3 .
A. S. Neill's Summerhill School
Summerhill was founded in 1921 in Hellerau, a suburb of Dresden. It was part of an International school called the Neue Schule. There were wonderful facilities there and a lot of enthusiasm, but over the following months Neill became progressively less happy with the school. He felt it was run by idealists – they disapproved of tobacco, foxtrots and cinemas – while he wanted the children to live their own lives. "I am only just realising the absolute freedom of my scheme of Education. Together with Frau Neustatter (later his first wife and known at Summerhill as Mrs Lins), Neill moved his school to Sonntagsberg in Austria. By 1923 Neill had moved to the town of Lyme Regis in the south of England, to a house called Summerhill where he began with 5 pupils. Neill continued to run the school with Mrs Lins who played a crucial role in both the formation and the running of Summerhill. The school continued to be controversial, being depicted in the press as the "Do As You Please" school.
"educational equity in a shambles"
Despite the unending lip service offered by NCLB advocates for closing achievement gaps, those gaps remain gaping. And in the process of NCLB's bombing of the public school system, the dying embers of the school integration movement have been snuffed out by a testocratic education policy that uses tests to sort children based on family income, discourages diversity by penalizing schools with weak test performers, and encourages the creation of urban chain gang charter schools such as KIPP that no middle class parent would consider for their own children. The question now is whether or not the Obama team with call-me-Arne at the helm of ED will continue the Bush neo-eugenic policies that pay tax-dodging corporations and their foundations to create charter schools that segregate and intellectually sterilize those now deemed defective based on their test scores. Here are clips from the press release on a new study of the resegregation phenomenon in schools by the Civil Rights Project:
Summerhill School, Kingswinford
Positive Outcomes for Pupils of Britain’s Most Radical Schools | All | Slice of Life | Life | Epoch Times
By Mary CannEpoch Times Staff Created: November 1, 2011 Last Updated: November 2, 2011 Children relaxed and absorbed in the Summerhill school cafe. (Courtesy of Summerhill School) Freer Spreckley, entrepreneur, is a social enterprise consultant often working overseas. Freer’s is one of many ex-Summerhill pupils’ memoirs featured in After Summerhill by Hussein Lucas, recently published by Herbert Adler Press. This compelling book gives a voice to the benefits of a school run democratically and governed by decisions made in a thrice weekly meeting where school "laws" are made and in which everyone has one vote including all the children. I was so intrigued that I wondered how outcomes for children of Steiner schools and mainstream schools might compare. Summerhill school with a skating ramp outside in Leiston in Suffolk. She remembered that one day a prospective pupil for the primary class had come on a visit with his mum. "Mainstream education can over-fertilise," she added.
Comer Process
How it Works The Comer Process provides a structure as well as a process for mobilizing adults to support students' learning and overall development. It is a different way of conceptualizing and working in schools and replaces traditional school organization and management with an operating system that works for schools and the students they serve. The following three structures comprise the basic framework on which the Comer Process operating system is built: The School Planning and Management Team develops a comprehensive school plan, sets academic, social and community relations goals and coordinates all school activities, including staff development programs. The team creates critical dialogue around teaching and learning and monitors progress to identify needed adjustments to the school plan as well as opportunities to support the plan. This framework places the students' developmental needs at the center of the school's agenda and establishes shared responsibility.
A. S. Neill's Summerhill School
Is Summerhill as bad as they say? | UK news | The Observer
Summerhill, the pioneer school where lessons are optional, faces closure by the Government following a damning report last week by schools inspectors. The report focused on the 'erratic' learning of children and claimed this would severely disadvantage them for the world outside. It is a criticism we old Summerhillians have heard oh-so-often. For years after I left, people would peer at me as though viewing an alien species, and opine: 'Of course it must be very difficult for you coping in the real world' - even though they hadn't apparently spotted my maladjustment until then. But why does the Education Secretary David Blunkett, a man who talks about the importance of education in citizenship, and acknowledges the importance of education in relationships - things Summerhill deals in exceptionally well - want to close my alma mater? A.S. Keith Critchlow Keith Critchlow, 66, was at Summerhill from the age of 10 to 15. Michael Bernal Freer Spreckley Mikey Cuddihy Dane Goodsman
Resources on Minnesota Issues: Charter Schools
Last reviewed July 2012 This guide is compiled by staff at the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library on a topic of interest to Minnesota legislators. It is designed to provide an introduction to the topic, directing the user to a variety of sources, and is not intended to be exhaustive. The charter school movement began in 1988 when Albert Shanker, American Federation of Teachers President, called for the reform of the public schools by establishing 'charter schools'. The basic charter concept is simple: a group of teachers or other would-be educators apply for permission to open a school. The school operates under a charter, a contract with the local school board or state. In 1991, Minnesota was at the forefront of the nation in passing legislation to create the first legislated charter school. In 2008, several analyses of Minnesota charter schools raised questions about the schools' administration and performance. Over the years the law has been amended several times. Larson, Lisa.
