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Resources on alternative education (especially for facilitators planning classes):
Popular Education News from a Twin Cities Activist
Has information on the philosophy of popular education - education that starts with people's experience. There are also pdf's with activities and links to other popular education sites.
The Change Agency
Check out their training resources for group activities for all sorts of situations.
Education for Social Change Sites:
The Democratizing Education Network
This organization helped inspire the Twin Cities Experimental College.
Rethinking Schools
We need to keep primary and secondary schools in our conversations, too. Rethinking schools has a great newsletter and does important research on public schools in the U.S.
EduFactory
A website that links struggles to de-commercialize and re-vitalize the university. They have a list of alternative education projects around the globe including EXCO!
Organizations that have collaborated with EXCO:
The Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network
The Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network is a grassroots, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to fix the broken immigration system in this country. Our strategies include grass-roots community organizing, media justice work, immigrant leadership development, bipartisan legislative work, popular education, civic engagement and using art as a catalyst for social change.
Center for Independent Artists
Center for Independent Artists exists as a producing, convening and service organization for artists from diverse physical, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives - offering a place for visibility, intersection, conversation and career support.
District 202
District 202 is a nonprofit youth community center committed to providing social, cultural and educational opportunities by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) youth and their friends. Currently offering a Queer Sex Ed Class! open to those under 22...
Do It Green Sustainability Organization
Environmental Activism based in the Twin Cities.