Review of Deb O’Rourke’s Can This Be School? Fifty Years of Democracy at ALPHA
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This is a review of Deb O’Rourke’s newly-released book Can This Be School? Fifty Years of Democracy at ALPHA
This is a review of Deb O’Rourke’s newly-released book Can This Be School? Fifty Years of Democracy at ALPHA
Chris Mercogliano is the author of Making It Up As We Go Along, the Story of the Albany Free School (Heinemann 1998), Teaching the Restless, One School's Remarkable No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed (Beacon Press 2004), How to Grow a School: Starting and Sustaining Schools That Work (Oxford Village Press 2006), In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness (Beacon Press 2007), and A School Must Have a Heart (Oxford Village Press 2014). The father of two wonderful daughters and grandfather of five, he lives with his wife Betsy on a one-acre farm in downtown Albany, New York.
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