Daniel Greenberg (educator) explained

Daniel A. Greenberg (28 September 1934 – 2 December 2021), was one of the founders of the Sudbury Valley School, has published several books on the Sudbury model of school organization,^[1] and was described by Sudbury Valley School trustee Peter Gray as the "principal philosopher" among its founders.^[2] He was a physics professor at Columbia University, and was described by Lois Holzman as the school's "chief 'philosophical writer'".^[3]

Publications

Books

• 1964, Anaxagoras and the Birth of Physics with Daniel E. Gershenson, OCLC 899834
• 1973, Announcing a New School: A Personal Account of the Beginnings of the Sudbury Valley School,
• 1974, Outline of a New Philosophy,
• 1987, Child Rearing,
• 1988, Early lessons : some recollections of my youth and what it taught me,
• 1991, Free at Last: The Sudbury Valley School,
• 1992, The Sudbury Valley School Experience with Hanna Greenberg, Michael Greenberg, Laura Ransom, Mimsy Sadofsky and Alan White,
• 1992, Legacy of Trust, Life After the Sudbury Valley School Experience with Mimsy Sadofsky,
• 1992, A New Look at Schools,
• 1992, Education in America: A View from Sudbury Valley,
• 1994, Worlds in Creation,
• 1994, Kingdom of Childhood, Growing Up At Sudbury Valley School with Mimsy Sadofsky and Hanna Greenberg,
• 1995, Sudbury Valley School Handbook,
• 1998, Starting a Sudbury School: A Summary of the Experiences of Fifteen Start-Up Groups with Mimsy Sadofsky,
• 1999, Reflections on the Sudbury School Concept with Mimsy Sadofsky,
• 2000, A Clearer View: New Insights into the Sudbury School Model,
• 2004, The Pursuit of Happiness: The Lives of Sudbury Valley Alumni with Mimsy Sadofsky and Jason Lempka,
• 2008, Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track with Russell L. Ackoff, .
• 2016, A Place to Grow: The Culture of Sudbury Valley School, .
• 2018, America at Risk: How Schools Undermine Our Country's Core Values, .
• 2018, Constructing reality: The Most Creative of All the Arts, .

Chapters

• 1994, "Democratic to the Core: Life in Sudbury Valley School", in The Handbook of Alternative Education.^[4]

Papers

• 1960, Theory of Allowed and Forbidden Transitions in Muon Capture Reactions. II, with Masato Morita, in Physical Review, 119, pp. 435 - 437.
• 1960, Theory of the Hyperfine Anomalies of Deuterium, Tritium, and Helium-3⁺, with Henry M. Foley, in Physical Review, 120, pp. 1684 - 1697.
• 1987, Idea Notebook: Teaching Justice through Experience, in Journal of Experiential Education, 10(1), pp. 46 - 47.

Articles

• 1991, Learning without coercion: Sudbury Valley School in Mothering, 58, pp. 102 - 105.
• 1985-1992, regular column in the Middlesex News on education in America.^[5]

External links

• Interview with Daniel Greenberg (2001)

Notes and References

1. Book: Marano, Hara Estroff. A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting. 2008. Random House. 978-0-7679-2403-0. 232.
2. Gray, Peter and David Chanoff. February 1986. 94. 2. 182–213. Democratic Schooling: What Happens to Young People Who Have Charge of Their Own Education?. American Journal of Education. 1084948. The University of Chicago Press. 10.1086/443842. 144733976. The principal philosopher among the group of parents and others who founded SVS was Daniel Greenberg, a wide-ranging scholar who had previously taught physics and the history of science at Columbia University..
3. Book: Holzman, Lois. Lois Holzman

   . Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives To Current Education Models. Lois Holzman. 1997. Lawrence Erlbaum. United Kingdom. 0-8058-2357-3. 94.

4. Book: Jerry Mintz. Raymond Solomon. The handbook of alternative education. 26 May 2013. June 1994. Macmillan Pub. Co.. 978-0-02-897303-6. 363–365.
5. Compiled in Book: Daniel Greenberg. Education in America: A View from Sudbury Valley. 20 May 2013. 1 January 1992. The Sudbury Valley School. 978-1-888947-07-6.