Making It Up as We Go Along: The Story of the Albany Free School

by Chris Mercogliano

Book Overview

Grades K - 5 Making It Up as We Go Along is the story of the Albany Free School, a school based on real freedom, real community, real democratic principles, and real affection between teachers and students. There, for over twenty-five years Chris Mercogliano has taught a never-ending variety of children-kids of all ages from every race and social class, from those with developmental and behavioral problems to the so-called "gifted." Thanks to this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325000433
• ISBN13: 9780325000435
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 5

Customer Reviews

Every parent and teacher should read this!

This is a fascinating and inspiring book. It leads you to question the education system as a whole and specifically the classrooms you or your children enter every day. Mercogliano writes in an easy style and tells the story in an engaging way. Give a copy of this to your local administrators and your state legislators.

Inspirational...

This book has inspired many in the free school movement. I work at a democratic school in brazil, and all the educators have read this book, it is also being used in pedagogcial studies in the University of Sao Paulo. This is a must read for all educators and people interested in allowing children to be free!

Inspiring Alternative Education brilliantly depicted

This book takes you into the heart and soul of an inner city free school. It's a beautiful human story about love and courage. It's also an excellent example of an ongoing experiment in real living and learning, real in the sense of actual, effective and happening. The school is free in two ways. You can go there without paying and rules are not prescribed. Chris Mercogliano does an excellent job of showing us both sides of this coin. If you're a parent, grandparent or soon to be a parent read this book!