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A grassroots movement formed in the summer and early fall of 2003 with the goal of offering a true educational alternative to the traditional orthodoxy of education now dominant in most public and private schools in this city, the Brooklyn Free School has now sprouted wings and has been up and running since September 2004. The community is composed entirely of parents, students, educators and others who believe that freedom and democracy are not just textbook concepts, but a way of living and learning - for our children as well as ourselves. The Brooklyn Free School is dedicated to the belief that all students must be free to develop naturally as human beings in a non-coercive educational environment and empowered to make decisions affecting their everyday lives and that of their community.
The Brooklyn Free School
372 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 499-2707
contact@brooklynfreeschool.org
Brooklyn
Free School Plans Service Learning Project in Tanzania
by Julia Wasson ( Blue Planet online magazine)
Free
to Be Me
by Gia Rae Winsryg-Ulmer (YES! Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions online
magazine)
The Brooklyn Free School Observations
and Reflections
by Kate McReynolds (Encounter:
Education for Meaning and Social Justice )
Video segment by Telemundo Spanish
language television station.
Segment is in Spanish and may take several minutes to load.
Radio segment by the Swedish
Broadcasting Corporation. Aired in the fall of 2006.
Segment is in Swedish, with quotes in English by Brooklyn Free Schoolers.
No grades, no homework, no tests: Students
rule this New York school
by Nahal Toosi (The Associated Press)
Higher Education
by Aaron Gell (The original unedited article that was cut by 4,000 words
for the New York Times)
The Land of the Free
by Aaron Gell (The New York Times)
Kids Will Be Kids
by Tiffany Meyers (Photo District News Online)
The School day is starting at the Brooklyn
Free School...
by Bruni Torras (the Park Slope Reader)
One Man's Solution to the Educational
Rat Race
by Tara Bahrampour (New York Times Article)
The Brooklyn Free School: Living is Learning
by the planning committee of the Brooklyn Free School (an open letter
to all)
Democratic School Being Considered for
Park Slope
by Alan P. Berger (article for the Linewaiter's Gazette)