More about Riverwind:
Sudbury Resources:
The original Sudbury School (and their bookstore)
Hudson Valley Sudbury School (and their viral video on facebook and a copy on youtube, and here's their youtube channel with another great video.)
Peter Gray (a developmental psychologist who argues in favor of Self-Directed Learning and Sudbury in particular). See his book here and his blog here, and his Let Grow project here.
Free at Last, a classic text on the value of Sudbury
Article in the Atlantic about Sudbury schools
General Educational Resources:
Sir Ken Robinson, an education reformer. (TED talks here.)
Agile Learning Centers, a Sudbury-esque alternative to traditional school
Unschooling, which is basically Self-Directed Education in a home environment. (More articles about unschooling here, here, here and here, plus formal surveys published in a scientific journal here and here.)
The Teenage Liberation Handbook, by Grace Llewellyn, who formerly taught in public schools and now advocates for kids to quit the regular school system in pursuit of better alternatives
John Taylor Gatto, New York Teacher of the Year, who strongly believed that the traditional system was (and is) abusive and ridiculous. (Two of his books are Dumbing Us Down and Weapons of Mass Instruction. Also see his classic article, The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher.)
Website of Alfie Kohn, who has written many science-supported books about how to raise and educate children
North Star Teens, home of the original North Star group, which is kindof like Sudbury without democracy
Liberated Learners, home of the North Star model more generally
School is Optional, a video about the North Star model
Peer Unschooling, a site for unschooling teens to find each other and communicate
Illinois H.O.U.S.E., a homeschooling group
Before You Feel Pressure, a video by Jay Shetty about not pressuring yourself to meet the "standard" life track
Alan Watts shares profound thoughts on childhood and society here
Neil deGrasse Tyson endorses Self-Directed Education. (See another great video here.)
George Orwell wrote about his abusive schooling experience in Such, Such Were The Joys
Peter Gray gives a talk: How Our Schools Thwart Passions
Other resources about child development or child abuse
Let Grow, a project to let kids have more freedom to play
Alice Miller, a psychotherapist who broke new ground with her books The Drama of the Gifted Child and For Your Own Good, which examined the emotional roots of child abuse, and the effects which children suffer. (Possibly due to a translation issue, "The Drama of the Gifted Child" isn't about "gifted" children in the academic sense. It's about kids who have demanding parents, who try very hard to please those parents, and suffer as a result.)
Pete Walker, a therapist who wrote the influential book Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving. (Pete suffered child abuse personally, and went on to overcome its effects.)
Susan Forward, a therapist who wrote the classic book Toxic Parents, among others
Andrew Vachss, a lawyer who defends the victims of child abuse, and also author who has written about the importance of protecting children