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interviews with and articles about me--full text/audio online

 

(Sorry that this is all in the third person and thus rather pretentious sounding--I originally wrote it for something else.--Grace)

"Grace Under Pressure," Teacher Magazine March-April 2004
An in-depth article about Grace and her Not Back to School Camp. Grace thinks the slant is a bit misleading, and there are a number of factual errors (mostly pertaining to numbers of things and years), but it's interesting overall. There are letters responding to the article in the May issue and the September issue--the September issue includes a response from Grace. If you read this article, please understand that Grace adores and greatly respects her brother Othman and has certainly gotten more than "one thing" out of being his little sister--there's a rather misleading quote in the article on that subject.  

http://www.peterkowalke.com/interviews/llewellyn-int_1.html
One of Grace's favorite interviews with her, though there are a few typos and she wishes her speech might have been airbrushed slightly to make her sound a little bit more intelligent and more skilled at forming sentences. Conducted sometime around 1998 by Peter Kowalke, and originally published in his print zine Nation. Peter's site has other good stuff on unschooling, too.

Home Education Magazine
One of the oldest and best homeschooling magazines. This link takes you to the full text of an interview with Grace published in 1998--which, again, is one of Grace's own favorites, conducted by Neysa C.M. Jensen. 

We the People audio interview with Grace 
A radio interview conducted in March 1997 by Jerry Brown. 

http://community.nbtsc.org/wiki/OregonianArticle
The text of an article by Inara Verzemnieks about Grace and Not Back to School Camp, published in the Oregonian, September 22, 2002. Check here for Sol Neelman's photos that were published with the article, plus others he took while at NBTSC. 

Reason Magazine: Guerrilla Unschooling 
A brief interview with Grace conducted by Rhys Southan, October 2001. 

Guerrilla Learning with Grace Llewellyn
Grace is interviewed for Radio Free School by Canadian unschooling Mom Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko (April 2004) 

 

more interviews with and articles about Grace Llewellyn (full text not online)

Life Learning 
A sweet little one-page profile of Grace by Tracy Aitken (for their regular feature, "The Back Page: Talking with people who make a difference") in the March/April 2004 issue of this excellent magazine for unschoolers. 

Hope Magazine
The May/June 2003 issue of this inspiring magazine included an article by Michelle Nijhuis about Grace's work called "School's Out." Grace feels honored both by Michelle's treatment of the story and by being included in Hope.  

Journal For Living 
A good magazine on alternative education. This link will take you to information about Issue #17, containing an interview with Grace, 1999 or so. 

Paths of Learning: Options for Families and Communities 
Another good magazine on alternative education. This link will take you to information about ordering back issues; #2 contains an interview with Grace.

Growing Without Schooling 
Unfortunately defunct, the best-ever magazine to support unschoolers, founded by the late and very great John Holt. Issue #84 (1991) ran an interview with Grace conducted by Susannah Sheffer. 

and related stuff 

 

http://alternative-learning.org/
A lovely group of people in the Netherlands is putting out a Dutch edition of The Teenage Liberation Handbook, and they may do other foreign-language editions down the road. They hope to find more investors and other people who want to be involved in their project. 

The Self-Education Foundation 
is a unique,  low-budget, innovative, effective nonprofit organization led by young people who are committed to supporting individual and community empowerment through self-education. It gives grants and does community organizing and outreach. Grace has served on its board.

Not Back To School Camp
An "offspring" of the Teenage Liberation Handbook, this is a summer camp Grace started for unschooled teenagers. Has more good unschooling links.

Holt Associates 
Holt Associates is the legacy of the late educational reformer John Holt, founder of the unschooling movement. There are now many publishers who offer books on unschooling/homeschooling, but Holt Associates is one of the oldest and most important. (They were also the publishers of Growing Without Schooling magazine.) They're not very busy as publishers anymore, but their site still has useful information.