Alexander Khost is a father and children's rights advocate. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Tipping Points and founder of Voice of the Children, promoting and facilitating art and activism for young people. He is also Vice President of Friends of the Modern School, supporting the history of anarchistic education, and he works at the homeschooling coop, Brooklyn Apple Academy.
He previously founded the Teddy McArdle Free School, a democratic free school in New Jersey, and more recently he co-founded play:groundNYC, a junkyard playground for children on Governors Island in New York City.
2020-07-18Reflections of a Germinating Facilitator
Maintaining a garden can help to change one’s thinking.
2020-07-18From Democratic Free Schools to Democratic Free Communities
Our principles as a lens to look outward
2020-07-04What’s Outside of School?
School disengages us from life
2020-06-25Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools
A conversation with Bettina Love, Gholdy Muhammad, Dena Simmons and Brian Jones about abolitionist teaching and antiracist education.
2020-06-18Educating the Citizens of the Universe
How do we prepare our children for the ever-changing world?
2020-05-28Adultism
A series on the systemic discrimination of youth.
2020-05-21Can You Love What You Do?
Contrary to cultural expectations, self chosen activities don’t have to taste bad to be good!
2020-05-15Why are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?
A review of Blake Boles’ new book that is being released today.
2020-05-12Supporting Parents During and Beyond These Uncertain Times
A webinar series in collaboration with Eclectic Learning Network & The Alliance for Self-Directed Education
2020-04-23Micro-Schools May Be the Future of Education
A discussion of how self-directed spaces are able to flex in this time of crisis.
2020-04-11The Day it Became Okay to Just Be
Learning to just be during quarantine.
2020-04-08Now is the Time to Care About Public Schools
In the scurry to assert a sense of normalcy, public school districts, educators, and families are missing opportunities to revise assumptions about how education ought to work. Now’s our chance to shift the status quo of conventional schooling.
2020-04-06My Unschooling Testimony
This story involves suicidal thoughts, self-harm, and bullying. Please do not read this if those topics will trigger you. In elementary school, I was the […]
2020-04-02An Open Note for Families During Uncertain Times
A write-up around ways to support families during this time.
2020-04-02Education is a Practice of Freedom
An exploration of the intersections between learning, education and schooling and their relationship to the society we end up with.
2020-04-01Youth Expression Through Body Art
Some young people are getting tattoos and body piercings as an expression of their youth rights movement.
2020-03-27To Brighten Your Day
Artwork created and performed by self-directed children during Coronavirus mandated quarantine.
2020-03-26Evidence Emerges to Support SDE
Some science-backed benefits of unschooling.
2020-03-20Self-Directing in Isolation
What does it mean to self-direct in an isolated world?
2020-03-19Self-Directed Education: Inequitable or Radical?
Many people worry that Self-Directed Education is too risky for children from less privileged households. But is our duty to expose kids to the types of knowledge that confer privilege, or to help them develop their fullest, most meaningful lives?