U Not Gonna Like This

From thier front page and thier "about us" sections:

What If...

What if families could choose any school they wanted? What if there were no rules on what or how teachers taught? Would children learn more or less? Would society be drawn together or blown apart? These are treated as hypothetical questions in the modern debate over schooling, but the answers have been right behind us all along.
-Andrew J. Coulson, Market Education

If you had the choice and the freedom, what sort of education would you fashion for your children? What kind of teachers would you choose? What would you want your children to learn? What kind of people would your children be when they emerged from their schooling?



Imagine it! You choose! You control!

You shape your children's future.


We believe parents, and not the state, should be in charge of their children's education. That control may take many forms and levels of involvement, but the state will never be part of the picture.

If this seems like an impossible idea, consider that 8 million children already learn free of state control. We're not starting from scratch here. The snowball of educational independence is already rolling.

To find out more please visit thier homepage:



Alliance for Separation of School and State


http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm

From their about us page:

Founded in 1995, the International Boys’ Schools Coalition is a not-for-profit coalition of independent, parochial and public schools from around the world dedicated to the education and development of boys, the professional growth of those who work with them, and the advocacy and advancement of institutions – primarily schools for boys – that serve them.



The roster of approximately 150 Regular Members schools includes many of the major independent and parochial boys’ schools worldwide. Associate Membership is open to individuals, co-educational schools, associations or other organizations which wish to work with the Coalition for the achievement of its purposes.

International Boys's Schools Coalition


http://www.boysschoolscoalition.org

or

http://www.theibsc.org

The National Association for Single Sex Public Education

http://www.singlesexschools.org

I just came across this free e-book, it's in abobe pdf format and is nearly 7MB in size. All you have to do is go to the front page and download the book by clicking on a hyperlink:

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt


http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com

Here more information about them from the about us section:


The Alliance for the Separation of School & State has a two-fold mission:



1. Help parents and others understand the true nature and the dangers of compulsory state schooling.



2. Show parents and others how they can take back their freedom and ensure a bright future for their children and our country.



Through our web site, literature, conferences, speaking engagements, our newsletter and our many volunteers, we spread this message of hope and liberty, we encourage parents to Keep their Children, and we encourage others to support parents in this cause.






The Alliance for the Separation of School & State, a California-based non-profit organization, was founded in 1994 and is dedicated to helping families understand the need for freedom in education and how they can achieve that dream.





Alliance for the Separation of School & State

http://www.schoolandstate.org/

Here's more about thier site from the about us page:

EdWatch supports knowledge-based education that promotes the American Creed, free enterprise, limited government, and the primacy of parental rights.


Education Watch

http://www.edwatch.org/

What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? To bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social ills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens?



In Save the World On Your Own Time , Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable these goals might be, there is but one proper role for the academe in society: to advance bodies of knowledge and to equip students for doing the same.



When teachers offer themselves as moralists, political activists, or agents of social change rather than as credentialed experts in a particular subject and the methods used to analyze it, they abdicate their true purpose. And yet professors now routinely bring their political views into the classroom and seek to influence the political views of their students. Those who do this will often invoke academic freedom, but Fish argues that academic freedom, correctly understood, is the freedom to do the academic job, not the freedom to do any job that comes into the professor's mind.




He insists that a professor's only obligation is "to present the material in the syllabus and introduce students to state-of-the-art methods of analysis. Not to practice politics, but to study it; not to proselytize for or against religious doctrines, but to describe them; not to affirm or condemn Intelligent Design, but to explain what it is and analyze its appeal."




Given that hot-button issues such as Holocaust denial, free speech, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are regularly debated in classrooms across the nation, Save the World On Your Own Time is certain to spark fresh debate-and to incense both liberals and conservatives-about the true purpose of higher education in America.




I was going to highlight No Indoctrination.org at a later date, but stopped by thier site out of pure curiosity to see if the front page had changed. And indeed it had. The book review you see above is currently posted on thier site. So if your still in school or you have a friend or family member that is still in school then you might want to check them out.




No Indoctrination.org


http://www.noindoctrination.org