The Scotland Road Free School was a short-lived example of democratic education and free-schooling started in the UK in 1970 by two Liverpool teachers...
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Scotland Road, known locally as Scottie Road, is the section of the A59 road situated near the docks in the Vauxhall district of north Liverpool, England...
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School (Belper) Risinghill School (London) Scotland Road Free School (Liverpool) The Small School (Hartland, Devon) California Deep Springs College (Deep...
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The free school movement, also known as the new schools or alternative schools movement, was an American education reform movement during the 1960s and...
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themselves. The school has no required academic activities and no academic expectations for completion of one's time at the school. Students are free to spend...
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Brooklyn Free School is a private, ungraded, democratic free school in Brooklyn, founded in 2004. Students range in age from 4 to 18 years old. The school follows...
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A. S. Neill (category Military personnel from Angus, Scotland)
Summerhill, read widely in the free school movement from the 1960s. Alexander Sutherland Neill was born in Forfar, Scotland, on 17 October 1883 to George...
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College began opening new campuses in 1964, when it purchased the Putney School of Education in Vermont. Eventually it opened 38 different campuses, and...
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Village Free School (VFS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit private primary and secondary school located in Portland, Oregon, United States. The school was founded...
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Stagecoach East Scotland is a bus operator providing services in eastern Scotland, with its regional base in Dunfermline, Fife. The company is a subsidiary...
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Tamariki is the oldest 'free school' in New Zealand and one of the oldest in the world.[citation needed] It was founded in 1966 by a group of parents...
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Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, concluding...
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Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...
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Shimer Great Books School (pronounced /ˈʃaɪmər/ SHY-mər) is a Great Books college that is part of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Prior...
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challenge was to implement Neill's dictum of "freedom, not licence": "A free school is not a place where you can run roughshod over other people. It's a...
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Summerhill (book) (redirect from Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood)
previous works: The Problem Child, The Problem Parent, The Free Child, and That Dreadful School. Neill liked his idea and gave the publisher wide liberties...
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Philadelphia Free School also known as Philly Free School or PFS, is a Democratic Free School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philly Free School operates on...
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The Democratic School of Hadera is a Democratic School in Hadera, Israel. It was founded in 1987 by Yaacov Hecht. With around 400 students aged four to...
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Ragged schools were charitable organisations dedicated to the free education of destitute children in 19th-century Britain. The schools were developed...
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characteristics. First, the students are free to spend their time as they choose. During the hours they are in school students can spend their time engaging...
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The Free School is the oldest independent, inner-city alternative school in the United States. Founded by Mary Leue in 1969 based on the English Summerhill...
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Forres (redirect from Forres, Scotland)
Forres (/ˈfɒrɪs/; Scottish Gaelic: Farrais) is a town and former royal burgh in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately 25 miles (40 km)...
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The Small School was a coeducational private school for children ages 11–16, located in Hartland, Devon, England, that closed in 2016. Satish Kumar, who...
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The Free School of Evanston was an alternative school that existed in Evanston, Illinois, United States from 1971 to 1976, for five school years. The Free...
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High School, Edinburgh, Scotland (1128) Stirling High School, Scotland (1129) Stiftsgymnasium Melk, Austria (pre-1140) Bristol Cathedral School, England...
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Carnoustie (redirect from Carnoustie, Scotland)
Carnoustie (/kɑːrˈnuːsti/; Scottish Gaelic: Càrn Ùstaidh) is a town and former police burgh in the council area of Angus, Scotland. It is at the mouth of...
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than in England - Scotland has no equivalents of publicly funded grammar schools, free schools, nor academies except for Jordanhill School which is maintained...
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the best men of his generation". Lane was born in Connecticut. He left school early and took a job delivering groceries, where he met a doctor who helped...
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Newton Mearns (redirect from Mearns Primary School)
Mearns (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Ùr na Maoirne [ˈpalə ˈuːɾ nə ˈmɯːrˠɲə]) is a suburban town and the largest settlement in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. It lies...
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Elgin, Moray (redirect from Elgin, Scotland)
Scots: Ailgin; Scottish Gaelic: Eilginn [ˈel(e)kʲɪɲ]) is a historic town (former cathedral city) and formerly a royal burgh in Moray, Scotland. It is the...
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