Susannah Sheffer
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  • Author
  • Editor
  • Activist
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Susannah Sheffer is an author, editor, and activist, focusing on issues of education, prisons, and the death penalty. She is a leader in the unschooling, deschooling, and homeschooling movement.[1] She served on the board of Holt Associates, edited the newsletter Growing Without Schooling (GWS) for many years, and edited the book A Life Worth Living: Selected Letters of John Holt.[2][3][4] She is currently a staff member of North Star, an alternative to middle school and high school in Massachusetts.[5]

Her books include A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls, Writing Because We Love To: Homeschoolers at Work, In a Dark Time: A Prisoner's Struggle for Healing and Change, and Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experiences of Capital Defense Attorneys. She has also published numerous articles, essays, and book chapters on related issues.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Lewin, Tamar (November 29, 1995). "In Home Schooling, A New Type of Student". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 20, 2022. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ Growing without Schooling in Hern, M. (Ed.). (2008). Everywhere all the time: A new deschooling reader. AK Press.
  3. ↑ "Reflections". Growing Without Schooling. 143: 2. November–December 2001.
  4. ↑ Publishers Weekly review of A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls, Sept 4, 1005, https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780867093575
  5. ↑ "PEOPLE — North Star". North Star. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  6. ↑ "SusannahSheffer". SusannahSheffer. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
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