Free the children, Radical reform and the free school movement

“An important, serious and comprehensive picture of the Free schools nationwide.
-Jonathan Kozol, author of free schools Allen Graubard, who helped organize, directed and taught in the community School of santa barbara, here surveys the whole field of free schools-their successes and failures. In the light of his own experience, he critically analyzes the literature of the movement A. S. Neill, John Holt, Charles Silberman and others and then probes into the way in which various free schools actually operate, demonstrating that idealism and good intentions are not enough to insure a school’s existence or a child’s learning.
.clear-sighted, well informed, and valuable.
It corrects the excesses of the free school movement without losing sight of its virtues . .. There is a quiet authority here that is rare in the field.”
-George Dennison,
author of the lives of children