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.
2019-11-14“What if...”
An exploration of the “what ifs” surrounding Self-Directed Education.
2019-11-07The School Choice Debate Misses the Point
Arguing over test scores and other statistical outcomes takes the focus away from deeper questions about freedom and human flourishing.
2019-10-31School Culture is Really Strange
Reading Ramona the Pest as a self directed learner highlights how arbitrary school conventions really are.
2019-10-24The Limits of Trusting Children
Children should be trusted to make the decisions that are relevant to their education and life. Self-Directed Education requires that adults trust children. However, there are limits to that trust.
2019-10-10No sueltes el liderazgo
Hay muchos y diferentes estilos de crianza. Este artículo se dirige a los papás que tienden a confundir una crianza respetuosa y pacífica con la falta de liderazgo.
2019-10-03Dragons and the Art of Letting Go
Parenting perspective on children’s autonomy in their appearance
2019-09-26From Deschooling to Unschooling: Rethinking Anarchopedagogy after Ivan Illich
The last of a four part collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.
2019-09-24The Art of Self-Direction
An attempt to explain Self-Directed Education in twenty minutes.
2019-09-19Healing Humanity One Reconnected Learner at a Time
Former teacher challenges readers to re-envision schools as a place to support children’s self-discovery which positively affects us all.
2019-09-12Not-Back-to-School Survival Thriving
End of summer may highlight the social nonconformity of living without school, but it can also be a time for celebrating the family’s moves toward what actually works, and witnessing thriving!
2019-09-10Rachel Winston Rippy in Memoriam
A friend introduced me to Rachel in 2016. I had heard rumors of the Fifteenth Street School, the first Summerhill inspired school in New York […]
2019-09-05Growing Up Unschooled
Unschooling or SDE Schools: What we all need is community
2019-08-29Liberating The Teacher
A first person account of a directed learning seminar that didn’t happen
2019-08-22Conscious Bodies: How Self-Directed Education creates alive and aware individuals and communities
A focus on how connections create awareness both on the individual scale as well as the community scale.
2019-08-15Anarcho-Feminist Psychology: Contributing to Postformal Criticality
Part three of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.
2019-08-08Electric Fences, Chalk Lines, and the Spirit of Self Defense
This post describes a significant change we have recently made to our judicial system at Hudson Valley Sudbury School.
2019-08-01Swimming in the Deep End
What happens when we walk alongside our kids instead of throwing up invisible boundaries.
2019-07-25Blake Boles Keynote
Alternative Education Resource Education Conference 2019
2019-07-18Spaces of Learning: The Anarchist Free Skool
Part two of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.
2019-07-11Voices of Children
The Story of the Fifteenth Street School