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3/19/03 Congratulations to A Full Table, a new Sudbury school which opened in Arizona, USA in February.
2/1/03 We have added a new start-up group, Blue Ridge Discovery School in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA to our list of start-up groups.
AERO and the Albany Free School will co-host the 2003 International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) this summer in Albany, New York, USA.
1/20/03 Banyan Tree UnSchool is now Agate Private School.
11/10/02 The Beach School, a start-up group in Toronto, Ontario has a new web site at www.thebeachschool.org.
9/5/02 The Brazos Valley Sudbury School in Brookshire, Texas is now open.  Congratulations!  They have a new phone and fax number, (281) 375-7900.
The Hudson Valley Sudbury School in Woodstock, New York, is now open.  Congratulations!
The Living School in Boulder, Colorado is now open.   Congratulations!
8/13/02 The Puget Sound Community School has a new address, phone and fax.   See the details in our Networking area.
8/11/02 Evergreen Sudbury School in Hallowell, Maine, USA, has a new email address: evergreens@adelphia.net.
8/2/02 The Beach School is the new name for the start-up group in Toronto, Ontario, Canada formerly known as Beach Sudbury Valley School.
8/1/02 The recent workshop at Sudbury Valley School was written up in The Boston Globe and the Metrowest Daily News.
7/9/02 We have added a new start-up group, Grey-Bruce Independent School, in Saugeen Shores, Ontario, Canada to our list of start-up groups.
6/30/02 Diablo Valley School in Concord, California was featured in the article "Diablo Valley grad in a class by herself" in the San Francisco Chronicle on June 7th.  We also found this KRON-TV article about Diablo Valley from June 2001 in our travels in the ether.
6/15/02 Beach Sudbury Valley School, a start-up group in Toronto, Ontario, Canada has a new phone number, (416) 693-3014.
6/9/02 Greenwood Sudbury School in Hampton, Connecticut has a new email address: greenwood@snet.net .
6/3/02 Sudbury by the Sea is no longer an active start-up group.  Some of their members have joined the Sudbury L.A. School start-up group.
6/1/02 We have added a new start-up group, Beach Sudbury Valley School, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to our list of start-up groups.
Sudbury L.A. School, a start-up group in California, has a new web site and contact information.
5/20/02 Marin Sudbury School, a start-up group in California, is active again!   We have added them to our list of start-up groups.
Mountain Laurel Sudbury School, a start-up group in Connecticut, has a new address and phone number.
5/14/02 Evergreen Sudbury School in Maine is still accepting staff applications for the 2002-03 school year and the the nomination deadline is Wednesday, May 29th.
5/5/02 Check out Natural Learning: The Sudbury Way, an article on the Hudson Valley Sudbury School (New York) in the current Chronogram.
4/15/02 Sudbury L.A. is the new name for the start-up group in the Los Angeles, California area formerly known as Southbay Sudbury.
4/13/02 Tamariki School in New Zealand writes that the registration form for this year's IDEC (International Democratic Education Conference), which will be held in August, is now available on their web site.
This page was getting too long, so we moved the 2001 entries to their own page.
4/8/02 Blue Mountain School, Cottage Grove, Oregon is seeking staff applicants for the 2002-2003 school year. Interested candidates should fax resumes (Attn: ASAC) to 541.942.7597, or mail to Blue Mountain School (Attn: ASAC) 76132 Blue Mountain School Road Cottage Grove, OR 97424.   Please direct any questions to the Assembly Staff Advisory Committee 541.942.7764.
3/31/02 The Finnish Start-up Group has a new phone number, +358-41-5387509.
3/28/02 Evergreen Sudbury School in Maine is seeking staff members for the 2002-2003 school year. The staff hiring period will extend until mid-May, and all interested candidates should contact the school at (207) 622-9790 or evergreen@powerlink.net
At the Spring Valley School in Florida "Students take learning up, up and away" according to an article in today's St. Petersburg Times.
3/27/02 Congratulations to Patti Grossman who won our second annual Academy Awards contest!
3/26/02 Spring Valley School in Florida is looking for staff for next year.  Interested?  Call (727) 781-1234 or write for more information.
We have added a link to a Hebrew translation of "School Science Courses Don't Teach Science at All!" from Education in America - A View from Sudbury Valley by Daniel Greenberg to our Publications page in the Sudbury Model area of the site.
3/18/02 We added the Albany Free School in New York to our list of other schools.
3/9/02 The Chicago Sudbury School has a fantastic new web site - check it out!  They also have a new email address: info@chicagosudburyschool.org .
3/8/02 Congratulations to the Fairfield School, in Nova Scotia Canada, which opened on February 18th!  An article about their opening ran in the Halifax Daily News.
2/27/02 We added the Village School of Northfield in Minnesota to our list of other schools.
2/26/02 The Freedom School, a start-up group in Florida, has a new web site and was recently written up in the News-Press.
2/22/02 The Indigo Sudbury Campus, a start-up group in Alberta, Canada, has a beautiful new web site.  Check it out!
An excellent article about the Hudson Valley Sudbury School, a start-up group in Woodstock, NY, appeared in the New York Times on 2/20. 
2/20/02 The Winter issue of Perspectives is now available on-line
2/19/02 LeBrie Rich, a student at the Blue Mountain School in Cottage Grove, OR, wrote an article in today's Register-Guard. 
The Boston Sunday Globe ran an article in on 2/17 about Sudbury Valley School .
Enter our second annual Academy Awards contest - Guess who will win and support SERN!
2/16/02 The Banyan Tree UnSchool in Ontario, Canada, has a new email address: info@learnfree.ca
2/11/02 Full Circle Community School has moved to Orlando, FL and has a new email address: fullcircleschool@aol.com .
2/10/02 We now have an image which appears throughout the site, along with its pal,new.gif (147 bytes), highlighting material which has been added or changed within the last month.
2/2/02 Windsor House School's new email address is hhughes@telus.net .
Thanks to David Rovner, who has provided us with a link to his Hebrew translation of the first three chapters of Free At Last.   We have added this link to the Publications page in the Sudbury Model area of the site.
1/27/02 The Greenwood Sudbury School in Hampton, CT is looking for a part-time staff person for the rest of this year.  Interested candidates please contact Michelle.
1/24/02 Added Southbay Sudbury, a start-up group in California, to our list of start-up groups.
1/21/02 We have added a link to Sudbury texts in Hebrew to the Publications page in the Sudbury Model area of the site.  Many thanks to Eitan Greenberg, who provided the link.
1/19/02 The Winter issue of Perspectives is in the mail!  Look for it on-line mid-February. 
1/13/02 Curious about SERN?  Check out our new Who We Are page in the About SERN area of the site.
The Fall issue of Perspectives is now available on-line!  We had a little technical difficulty, but are now masters of our PDF destiny :)  If you have comments or suggestions about the on-line PDF files, please drop us a line.
1/2/02 We have added the Full Circle Community School, a new Sudbury school in Winter park, Florida.

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"In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself."
Grace Llewellyn
"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how."
John Holt
"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
Emma Goldman
"How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?"
Henry D. Thoreau
"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone."
John F. Kennedy
"You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help him find it within himself."
Galileo Gallilei
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain
"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living But doesn't teach them how to make a life."
Author unknown
"How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. I counted the days and the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home from this hateful servitude."
Winston Churchill
"Damn, we know that it's the schools and our parents that are crazy, not us."
New York High School Free Press
"Children need models rather than critics."
Joseph Joubert
"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school."
George Bernard Shaw
"It is... nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreak and ruin. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."
Albert Einstein
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