Holt Associates/
Growing Without Schooling

I edited Growing Without Schooling, the magazine founded by John Holt, for many of the years that it was published, and wrote regular "from the editor" columns and several other short essays, book reviews, and interviews. You can find all the issues, and much more about John Holt and his work, on the HoltGWS site.

Here is the introduction to the book I edited, A Life Worth Living: Selected Letters of John Holt (Ohio State University Press, 1990).

North Star: 
Self-Directed Learning for Teens

I am on the staff at North Star, where I lead the writing workshop and a couple of other discussion groups and meet one-on- one with teens as a teacher and counselor.

"Homeschooling Leaves Home: A Resource Center for Teens Who Choose to Leave School," published in Peacework magazine, September 2008

Innovators in Education

As editor of Heinemann's Innovators in Education series, I wrote forewords to books by some of education's most daring thinkers and writers.

Read the forewords to

Freedom and Beyond by John Holt

What Do I Do Monday? by John Holt

The Naked Children by Daniel Fader

Uptaught by Ken Macrorie

The Way It Spozed to Be by James Herndon

How to Survive in Your Native Land by James Herndon

Reading, How To by Herbert Kohl

The Question is College by Herbert Kohl

The Lives of Children by George Dennison

Adolescent Girls

A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls (book published by Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1995)

Columns from Daughters magazine and New Moon Network: For Adults Who Care About Girls:

"Rethinking Rules"

"Allowing Pain"

"I Thought You Knew"

"When 'Sexy' is What She's Trying For"

"When Her Behavior Doesn't Make Sense"

"Nurturing Resilience,"

"The Good in Girls' Friendships"

Eating Disorders: Cracking the Code (Interview with Steven Levenkron)

"The Courage to Act" (review of Sounds from the Heart: Learning to Listen to Girls)

Harriet the Spy

Reading & Writing

"Finding Grief: Using fiction-writing to communicate experience after the death of a loved one," published in the International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work

"An Adult Reads Chris Crutcher," published in The ALAN Review

"When Children Know Best" (review of Herbert Kohl's I Won't Learn From You!), published in The Progressive

"Breaking the Rules: A Defense of A Wrinkle in Time," published in Censored Books II: Critical Viewpoints

Writing Because We Love To (book published by Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1992)

"The Apprenticeship Model: What We Can Learn from Gareth Matthews," published in Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children