FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Darlene Robertson
937.769.1820
drobertson@mcgregor.edu
Children: An Endangered Species?
A Talk Hosted by Chris Mercogliano
YELLOW SPRINGS,
Ohio—Saturday, September 22, Antioch University McGregor will host a talk by Chris Mercogliano about the catastrophic changes that childhood is undergoing and their effect on children's inner spark. The title of the talk is "Children: An Endangered Species?" The talk will take place at 12:15 in the Auditorium of the new Campus West building at 900 Dayton Street, and is open to the public.
Chris Mercogliano was a teacher, codirector, and director at the Albany Free School for thirty-five years. His essays, commentaries and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, as well as in four anthologies:
Challenging the Giant (Down to Earth Books 1992), Deschooling Our Lives (New Society Press 1996), Creating Learning Communities (Foundation for Educational Renewal 2000), and Field Day: Getting Society Out of School (New Star Books 2003). Chris is also the author of Making It Up As We Go Along, the Story of the Albany Free School (Heinemann 1998), Teaching the Restless, One School's Remarkable No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed (Beacon Press 2004), How to Grow a School: Starting and Sustaining Schools That Work (Oxford Village Press 2006), and In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness (Beacon Press 2007).
Chris has been featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio's "Ideas," and many other nationally syndicated radio shows. Currently he is a regular columnist for Encounter magazine and several online journals. The father of two wonderful daughters, he lives with his wife Betsy on a one-acre organic farm in downtown Albany, New York.
