Class Dismissed - Extended Interview with Jerry Mintz

Class Dismissed - Extended Interview with Jerry Mintz

Enjoy this extended interview with Jerry Mintz.

Jerry Mintz has been a leading voice in the alternative school movement for over 30 years. In addition to his seventeen years as a public school teacher and a public and independent alternative school principal, he has also founded several alternative schools and organizations and has lectured and consulted around the world.In 1989, he founded the Alternative Education Resource Organization. He continues to serve as AERO’s director and as the Managing Editor of AERO’s networking magazine, The Education Revolution. Jerry was also Editor-in-Chief for the Handbook of Alternative Education, and the Almanac of Education Choices. He is the author of No Homework and Recess All Day: How to Have Freedom and Democracy in Education and is editor of Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Story.

Follow Jerry and his work at www.educationrevolution.org

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Running time: 36 mins.

Class Dismissed - Extended Interview with Jerry Mintz