• Publisher: Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)
• Release Date: Jan 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9780974525259

Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories [Hardcover]

Thirty-five visionary educators were asked:\n\nWhat was your schooling like? When did you realize that there is a need for an alternative approach? What have you done since to help realize that vision? What are you doing now?\n\nTurning Points is an anthology of their responses, a peek into the lives and journeys of these pioneering individuals who have-and are-transforming what it means to be a teacher, a student, and a life-long learner.\n\n"The [educators] we're looking for are those who say, "I want to work to change this system so others will be spared what was done to me." They have the compassion and the courage to shake up the status quo and denounce cruel traditions. They've mastered the art of negative learning and developed a commitment to making the world, or at least whatever part of it they come to inhabit, a better place than it was before they got there."\nAlfie Kohn, Education Week (adapted from the foreword)