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Free Schools Revisited: Revolution vs. Transformation « Cooperative Catalyst

Free Schools Revisited: Revolution vs. Transformation « Cooperative Catalyst

Free Schools Revisited: Revolution vs. Transformation

The public school exists to turn out manageable workers, obedient consumers, manipulable voters, and if need be willing killers” -Jonathan Kozol author of Free Schools

The most notable and recent movement for alternative education occurred in 1960’s to the early 1970’s, and was known as the “free school” movement. The free school movement was an effort to build small alternative schools where students participated equally in governance as well as enjoyed complete control over curriculum. Free